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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, and happy holidays in general!)
Sunday rant post. I really dislike that so many people are now adopting ‘electrons’ when they mean power (it is good as a ‘this person drinks the coolaid’ shibboleth however).
And I was amused to hear people go ‘AI (by which they meant the recent llm stuff) malware creating will be a risk in the future, look at the drug discovery that AI is already doing’, wonder if drug discovery people have said ‘look how great drug discovery will be in the future, look at all the malware development AI is already doing’.
Sounds like a way to identify people who think of power requirements as energy going in, rather than energy that also has to be dissipated. Wonder how circular the Venn diagram of electron guys vs space datacenter guys is.
energy goes in, energy goes out. you can’t explain that
Imagine how many electrons those space air conditioners must be using!
“I need more electrons” I say as I shuffle my feet on the carpet until my hair turns into a halo. I will take them by force.
Power! Unlimited power! I say as I shoot Force Electrons into the jedi knights.
Definitely have seen salty say this. What’s next? “Quantum AI development is bottlenecked by waveforms”??? I hate this shit