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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
New piece from Brian Merchant: āAI is in its empire eraā
Recently finished it, hereās a personal sidenote:
This AI bubbleās done a pretty good job of destroying the āapoliticalā image that techās done so much to build up (Silicon Valley jumping into bed with Trump definitely helped, too) - as a matter of fact, itās provided plenty of material to build an image of tech as a Nazi bar writ large (once again, SVās relationship with Trump did wonders here).
By the time this decade ends, I anticipate techās public image will be firmly in the toilet, viewed as an unmitigated blight on all our daily lives at best and as an unofficial arm of the Fourth Reich at worst.
As for AI itself, I expect itās image will go into the shitter as well - assuming the bubble burst doesnāt destroy AI as a concept like I anticipate, itāll probably be viewed as a tech with no ethical use, as a tech built first and foremost to enable/perpetrate atrocities to its wielderās content.