Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.)
also: lol @ good faith edits.
A glorious snippet:
At first I was confused at what kind of moron would try using shibboleth positively, but it turns itās just terribly misquoting a citation:
Also lol at insiting on āexonymā as descriptor for TESCREAL, removing Timnit Gebru and Ćmile P. Torres and the clear intention of criticism from the term, it doesnāt really even make sense to use the acronym unless youāre doing critical analasis of the movement(s). (Also removing mentions of the espcially strong overalap between EA and rationalists.)
Itās a bit of a hack job at making the page more biased, with a very thin verneer of still using the sources.
So many of those changes are just weird and petty, too. Like, I canāt imagine a good reason to not reference Vitalik Buterin as āEthereum Founderā rather than just a billionaire. Iām sure that I can level the same critique at some pages that are neutrally trying to meet Wikipediaās standards, but especially in this context itās pretty straightforward to see that itās an attempt to remove important context and accurate information that might make them look bad.