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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yea, there's a lot of work from which it's quite worthwhile to free humanity. It's just that an AI company having that as its tagline and full contents of its social media bio reads with a very particular anime villain cadence. Makes me think of Seymour Guado in Final Fantasy X vowing to "free the world of its sorrow".,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rick Astley is absolutely the Auron here, hanging on ~~unsent~~ for decades waiting for a chance to set things right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that why the network is haunted?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been strategically misdirecting summoners for years trying to find a way to take down the big tech maesters but I only have so many fiends.

alright I'm gonna replay FFX now I'll see you all in a month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is just an alternative universe spira where the maesters are the ones peddling forbidden machina.