Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden 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 āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@samvines @techtakes Itās also missing the point that the original GMO crops that were being promoted were engineered by Monsanto to survive being drenched in Glyphosate, a probably-carcinogenic pesticide, to produce a monopoly in those crop plants for Monsanto. Ugly side of capitalism.
(If theyād led with golden rice, the reaction would have been different.)
It also arrived in the late stages of the BSE cull in the UK, at a time when food supply anxiety was at an all-time high.
I also question the degree to which āthe other 99% of readersā actually donāt care about AI slop. Even outside the awful bubble here I see AI images get met with at best a weary sigh of āI guess this is the world nowā rather than actual acceptance. And I know weāve talked at some length about how gell-mann amnesia isnāt a very useful model, but I think most people are much less tolerant of slop in areas that the know more about. Maybe I canāt tell an slopware history paper from a real one, but historians certainly can, and they hate that shit. In that sense the āmedian readerā statistic is misleading because the median reader isnāt particularly invested in most of what gets written anyways, and itās the lack of investment that makes slop seem plausible. Even the concerns about deep fakes seem like theyāre not separate from this general problem, since the same disconnection that makes people uncritically accept deep fakes makes them uncritically accept fake news without an accompanying video, or with a context-stripped video from an unrelated event, or whatever.
The original GMO crops would be like, broccoli existing and bananas not sucking ass. Monsanto are villains but they didnāt invent genetics or selection.