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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    The thing is he seems careful to not mention that it is a gen ai productā€“he never says AIā€“rather a piece of software that helps making presentations.

    The term ā€œAIā€ damages sales when used in advertising - whatever script Boyle got was definitely written by people who knew that fact.

    I also predicted something like this would happen (though within a very specific context) a while ago - seems my predictionā€™s coming true.

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        The guy seems shrewd enough to know publicly supporting anything AI will shred his reputation - I suspect he might have been duped.

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          sorry if my reply sounded rude. I didnā€™t mean it to be. I just saw it again and it sounds dismissive.

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          Yeah, I get what youā€™re saying but Iā€™d really have to stretch my benefit-of-the-doubt muscles to consider someone who makes such well-researched videos wouldnā€™t go to the website before he reads the url out on his video and see that on the homepage, above the fold, in big letters, it says ā€œPowered by AIā€

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              Itā€™s definitely the prudent option but Iā€™m over mental capacity and Iā€™d be lying if I said I wasnā€™t sharing this just for the upvotes. I couldnā€™t see any mentions of the sponsor in the comments, so I guess the audience, at least, were duped. I already have a string of unanswered questions on ecosiaā€™s greenwashing social posts, though