Want to wade into the sandy 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: 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.)
AI researcher and known epstein associate Joscha Bach comes up several times in the latest epstein email dump. And itās uh, not good. Greatest hits include: scientific racism, bigotry freestyling about the neoteny principle, climate fascism and managed decline of āundesirable groupsā juxtaposed immediately with opining about the emotional influence of 5 visits to buchenwald. You know, just very cool stuff:
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=092314e384a58618&p=1&docid=67044a5f5536b5b8_092314e384a58618_0&dapvm=2
I still say that the term āscientific racismā gives these fuckos too much credit. Iāve been saying ānumberwang racismā instead.
true, usually i put that term in scare quotes to emphasize its fraudulence
Also appearing is friend of the pod and OpenAI board member Larry Summers!
https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a
To quote myself: Larry Summers was one of the few people Iāve ever met where a casual conversation made me want to take a shower immediately afterward. I crashed a Harvard social event when a friend was an undergrad there and I was a student at MIT, in order to get the free food, and he was there to do glad-handing in his role as university president. I had a sharp discomfort response at the lizard-brain level ā a deep part of me going on the alert, signaling āthis man is not to be trustedā in the way one might sense that there is rotten meat nearby.
I always thought he had some weird pro trumpy (āanti wokeā) takes. Colour me shocked.