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 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. What a year, huh?)
what absolute bullshit
https://www.moltbook.com/
AKA Reddit for āagentsā.
does no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator
at least its posts were shorter
Thereās a small push by promptfondlers to make this āa thingā.
See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository
The demand is real. People have seen what crack cocaine can do.
Heāll probably do this by running an agent that uses a chatbot with the playwright mcp to occasionally scrape the site, then feed that to a second agent whoāll filter the posts for suspect behavior, then to another agent to summarize and create a report, then another agent which decides if the report is worth it for him to read and message him through his socials. Maybe another agent with db access to log the flagged posts at some point.
All this will be worth it to no one except the bot vendors.
From this post, it looks like we have reached the section of the Gibson novel where the public cloud machines respond to attacks with self-repair. Utterly hilarious to read the same sysadmin snark-reply five times, though.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented LinkedIn as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have automated LinkedIn.
How did molt become a term of endearment for agents? I read in the pivot thread that clawdbot changed itās name to moltbot because anthropic got ornery.
None of those words are in your favourite religious text of choice
I think it went like this
itās vibe product naming
mold will be more fitting
actually hilarious they started a lobster religion thatās also a crypto scam. learned from the humans well