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.)
Whatās a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like theyāre asking for a preemptive bail-out.
I checked the rest of Zitronās feed before posting and its weirder in context:
Interview:
Later at the jobsite:
She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government āshould play its partā.
Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit
@Architeuthis @o7___o7
āI donāt think thereās enough exuberance about AIā
Tinkerbell needs you all to wish harder, boys and girls
Every horrible person in my life ātests the watersā like that before going mask-off 100% asshole.
It gives that feeling, doesnāt it?
Truly a rightwing tech, after getting all the attention, money and data they now are mad people dont love it enough.
Zitronās stated multiple times a bailout isnāt coming, but Iām not ruling it out myself - AI has proven highly useful as a propaganda tool and an accountability sink, the oligarchs in office have good reason to keep it alive.
@Architeuthis @o7___o7
āI donāt think thereās enough exuberance about AI"? Wow.
Between this and the IPO talk it seems like weāre looking at some combination of trying to feel out exit strategies for the bubble theyāve created, trying to say whatever stuff keeps the āOpenAI is really bigā narrative in the headlines, and good old fashioned business idiocy.
Sounnds like she used her internal voice externally