Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)
Though if I had to guess: data tagging for data mining.
my related guess is primarily marketing surveillance and secondarily all other types of surveillance. notably Venmo no longer lets you put āhookers and blowā as a transaction note, because it was the default response from most people who didnāt really want to do a social transaction but had to use Venmo cause itās all their recipient had. Venmoās social features are all designed to make you leak as much data to Venmo as possible so it can be monetized or otherwise capitalized upon, and thatās about par for the course for how a thielverse paypal mafia offshoot operates. this is surveillance capitalism with a smiley face.