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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] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

So about that.

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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)