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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.

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

just want to share my article from this week. It's about products that account for their lack of usefulness with ease of use. Using the gpt-4oh as an example. https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the house doesn’t have a roof, don’t paint the walls.

i adore this line. because yeah, what i see the rest of the tech industry doing is either:

  • scrambling to erect their own, faster, better, cheaper roofless house
  • scrambling to sell furniture and utilities for the people who are definitely, inevitably going to move in
  • or making a ton of bank by selling resources to the first two groups

without even stopping to ask: why would anyone want to live here?

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

thanks! I think I began saying that when I moved from digital marketing agencies to startups around 2011