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: DOGEās āAI-firstā strategist is now the head of technology at the Department of Labor, which is aboutā¦well, exactly what it says on the tin. Gonna pull out a random paragraph which caught my eye, and spin a sidenote from it:
How well Musk and co. can impose those policy changes is gonna depend on how well they can paint them as āimproving efficiencyā or āpolitically neutralā or some random claptrap like that. Between Muskās own crippling incompetence, AIās utterly rancid public image, and a variety of factors I likely havenāt factored in, imposing them will likely prove harder than they thought.
(Iād also like to recommend James Allen-Robertsonās āDevs and the Culture of Techā which goes deep into the philosophical and ideological factors behind this current technofash-stavaganza.)
Canāt wait for them to discover that the DoL was created to protect them from labor