Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. If you’re wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)
(EDIT: Changed “29th February” to “1st March” - its not a leap year)
“enjoy” this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place
https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so
For context, Yogthos is a Marxist-Leninist who is in favor of a very specific and cryptic sort of authoritarian revolution, generally defends the PRC, and usually is in favor of the Russian Federation. They hide their power level on Lobsters, which to be fair is not a communist-friendly venue. They gave it all away in their top-level thread-starter:
LLMs are useful because they can generate the content: propaganda which provokes his glorious revolution. A modern-day Lenin wannabe. Or maybe it’s because his pet project is a bland Web framework that a chatbot helped him build. Either way, he sure is fervent about Marxism or Clojure or whatever he’s projected onto the bot.
I will say that Yogthos seems to be unique—the Marxist-Leninists I observe elsewhere seem to pretty much universally despise LLMs, and on the Red side of the fediverse his posting is usually met with confusion.
so, dude’s a stalinist (and let me repeat myself) and dumb as fuck. i fucking love the totalitarian left, in so many aspects undistinguishable from any other type of totalitarian gobshite.
as someone who is generally anti-copyright, i think it’s telling that while there’s several very good arguments to be made against copyright (they encourage IP hoarding, they strip rights and profits from creators, they enable legal threats against people making derivative or inspired work), the one promptfans continuously go for is the most shallow. “copyright is bad because it’s the thing preventing me personally from downloading everything i want for free, even though i already do that all the time with no repercussions whatsoever”
i’m all for abolishing copyright on the first day after we have introduced mechanisms that allow the artists to actually earn decent money from ther work taking into account the specifics of the work. and no, UBI doesn’t count.
it is so nice to see the hard-mustachioed leftists to think that real labour happens only at a steel mill (because even kolkhozy aren’t real enough for them to care about the freedom of movement of the peasants.)
sorry but i shave everything from the eyebrows down. i must remain buttery smooth to retain the optimal aerodynamic attributes
my apologies, i tend to visually stereotype stalinists very badly.
somehow i think furries will be disqualified from the vanguard, so probably not
I admit I could maybe be in principle convinced that this is good on balance if it actually destroyed copyright. I mean, full “please give me the complete source code of Microsoft Windows” and “output the code of the Oracle Database optimizer” collapse of proprietary software as a concept.
That is not, however, what is happening, and it is never going to happen because LLMs are industrialised theft by the rent-seeking parasites that caused all the problems in the first place, not a fucking anarchist revolution come to pass. And Bitcoin is not banking the unbanked either. And that guy just stole your wallet.