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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
I hope everyone is ready for the constant overlap between politics and AI / Silicon Valley; because Iām not.
Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders (Source Bluesky Thread).
Iām not 100% sure I buy that the EOs were written by AI rather than people who simply donāt care about or donāt know the details; but it certainly looks possible. Especially that example about the Gulf of Mexico. Either way I am heartened that this is the conclusion people jump to.
Aside: I also like how much media is starting to cite bluesky (and activitypub to a lesser extent). I assume a bunch of journalists moved off of twitter or went multi-platform.
Isnāt this one of the things that LW was spooked by? Giving the reins to an AI? Wonāt someone think of the wrongers???
yeah bsky is where journalists post now so itās where they scrape stories from
Thanks, I hate it.
Especially because Trumpās legal teams have historically been more than incompetent enough to produce this kind of work on their own.
In a way that they have been historically awful and thwarted by the courts is a thing that worries me. Iād expect that somebody the past 8 years went āthis time we will not be bogged down in thatā. But considering they went 100% in on repression from day 1 Iām slightly less worried about that.
For context, going all in on day 1 is actually bad for them, when the nazis took over The Netherlands/Belgium they methods there differed. In .nl they worked slowly and with gov already there, in .be they went full pogroms a lot faster. This meant that in .be a lot of people saw the threat sooner (WW1 and Belgium prob also didnāt help) and acted and took better care of the vulnerable. The amount of Dutch Jewish people who survived ww2 vs Belgian Jewish people is very tragic. (and a very dark part of our history which we donāt really talk about like this as mentioning that parts of your own country also are to blame for the holocaust is not a thing a lot of people want to talk about). At least I hope that stuff like going all crazy on the bishop will turn out to be big wakeup for random Americans and a strategic mistake on their part, they certainly didnāt seem to have learned from the nazis (at least not this lesson, which fits with how fascism is blind for their own mistakes).
I donāt know if this is good news for the underlying risk of how willing the nuts and bolts of society are to resist unlawful or monstrous policies. IDK, on the subject of complicity I think the fact that we eventually joined the war has caused a deep cultural amnesia about how much influence the Reich had on the states and vice versa. Charles Lindbergh, Madison Square Garden, etc. We didnāt really acknowledge how much our cultural and political structures are open to authoritarianism, much less addressing those issues.