Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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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.
Have a cursed book written by Henry Kissenger in 2023.
The Age of AI: Our Human Future ā https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805
Found by way of https://old.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1dqv2kj/having_heard_the_entirety_of_the_kissinger_series
I hate that I saw that same post earlier today
Hereās a quote from the book:
Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel
Isnāt it absolutely deranged? These people have (well had lol) real power over us.
There is a great March 2023 episode of Trashfuture Iām listening to atm called āThe Diet of Brainwormsā about this book. They basically want to install feudalism and tech-priests because AI is sO pOwErFuLl.
One of the hosts (Riley iirc) made a great point that itās as if someone showed Kissenger that trick where you write āboobsā using a calculator, and he became deeply unsettled by the computerās power of speech. Also appreciated the one about Kissenger being the guy who used an etch-a-sketch to draw a gun and was scared of it.
everything with a memory is capable of time travel