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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 19 hours ago (7 children)
[–] JFranek@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm "LIne storee" babyee.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 13 hours ago

idk what i have expected

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The article's abstract made me die a hundred times

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 14 hours ago

hey siri can you write me a nothing paper that combines two popular topics that are easy to bullshit about

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I'm the left leg clipping through the table. Also, i like how x axis on lower left chart is out of order

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"K9: scom", just need to figure out what scom is.

But my favorite part is in the upper left, the brain that just says "Autism" and "Autism" around it.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] fnix@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago

Wow. Quantum nature of autism confirmed. And people say the slop machines can’t do science...

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

kinda impressive that "Factor Fexcectorn" shows up twice, imagine how many credits were offered on the pyre of context management

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Factor Fexcectorn sounds like a Roman centurion who tried to improve the army's logistics by hitching multiple wagons together in sequence.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

I was thinking Factor Fexcectorn was the name of a furry OC, with an extensive backstory and a surprising amount of commissioned art. Fits in a fantasy or sci fi setting or both. Oh god am I writing an OC

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 19 hours ago

also what in the cursed fuck is going on with the glyphs over the "meter" bars

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

This artifact can bring bio med people on-side like nothing else.