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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

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.

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ohio State commencement speaker was grifter Chris Pan, who tossed a suggestion to buy bitcoin into the middle of his speech, got audibly booed. Full speech (around 1:33:45)

Molly has some fun details on Musk's hell site.

More fun detail's from Ohio's The Rooster (definitely read this one!)

His speech notes.

From the notes, it starts with normal inspirational speech garbage-- life pro-tip: do not repeat stupid parables saying that blind people have limited perspectives to large audiences-- then bitcoin comes up in the middle:

I know this might feel polarizing but I encourage you to keep an open mind. Right now, I see Bitcoin as a very misunderstood asset class. It is decentralized and finite which means no government can print more at will. In the early days, the exchanges for Bitcoin were prone to hacks and fraud. But this issue has been solved with the recent launch of bitcoin ETFs backed by the world’s 2 largest asset managers, BlackRock and Fidelity. And you can hold these ETFs in your retirement accounts just like you hold the S&P 500.

I’d love to do a demo for you: So here are 4 quarters. Inflation after 4 years has turned this into 3 quarters of purchasing power. Now if we apply some innovation and open-mindedness… Investing in your financial literacy will unlock so much freedom and possibilities for you.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

University President Carter holding up a "bitcoin" in the part of the speech about the quarters

Ayahuasca Intelligence

Chris Pan on insta: Got some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence) this week to write my commencement speech for 60k grads and family members at OSU next Sunday. We are in challenging times - wanted something extra heartfelt. (Tried Chat-GPT but wasn't that good lol). "They'd say this to you in Peru, you know: This is our university. You went to Harvard, we went to Ayahuasca." -- Terence McKenna

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Imagine going to university only to learn that the president falls for grifters that 10 year olds can detect.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

So about that.

Ted Carter is apparently on the board of an bitcoin mining company called TeraWulf.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

"my dad's ~~a better grifter~~ stronger than your dad!!!!"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

I often thing back about the smug coiners mocking the TSA agent looking for physical bitcoins on a pro bitcoin person, when they do stuff like put bitcoin data in actual coins or make bitcoin coins.

(It does amaze me a little bit none of them seem to got that this was actually bad for bitcoin, as this just shows how hard to understand it all is for normal people, and them doing it themselves is just confusing more people intentionally)

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

His Twitter bio says that he's "helping a billion people." That's quite a flex!

Here's molly white's thread on nitter.