Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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. A lot of people didnāt survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my accountās cake day, too, so thatās cool.)


The suspicion that notbyai.fyi was in fact a pro-ai techbro highlighting scrapable data has prompted comment from the founder: https://mastodon.social/@notbyai/116004178899556722
ā¦which seems like a load of cobblers. Imbl brings the receipts: https://social.treehouse.systems/@imbl/116014455337112737
Iāll assume the argument will devolve into weasel words over what āai broā and āai design agencyā will mean, and I suspect the conclusion will be that actually heās working for and with ai bros, with an interest in selling ai bro-related services to further the goals of ai bros in general, but somehow that wontāt be precisely the same thing.
did that imbl thread get locked? I get 404 on it
Looks like they zapped it. Possibly unhappy that it was being spread.
Anyway, the gist of it is:
The donāt just do that, so itās ok guys!
This is the first time I have ever seen the term āAI design agency,ā which raises some yellow flags