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 you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
the land grab between alexa, ring, and a few other things that they could potentially do (location correlation from app feeds, reliance on people being conditioned into always setting up store apps on their phones, etc)… I’d argue going even further on ejecting amazon
I get it’s not perfectly possible for everyone (and that for some it’s even the only option, because of how much amazon has killed competition), but their priorities have been clear for a while now and the chance of them building a data feeder pipeline for the ghouls in charge is just too fucking high
(I’m honestly surprised they’re not already drooling over themselves to be roleplaying a modern interpretation of IBM some decades ago…)