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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

presenting a DM from someone who absolutely doesn’t have internalized transphobia, never heard of it:

So I’m gonna reach out and say that you hastily misunderstood “and that shit about trans people”. I’m talking about the hate speech from the right wing. Keep me banned though that community is full of people who really have a low level reading ability.

when a libertarian-presenting shithead with not particularly deep political takes posts “it’s a distraction just like the bullshit about trans people” with no other qualifiers, it’s absolutely understood as a dogwhistle for “people need to shut up about trans issues”

and if I’m wrong about that? using trans folks to make your bullshit points is still fucking transphobia. don’t do this shit. it’s fucking concerning you can’t understand that.

e: also, and this is important: the republicans are planning a fucking genocide of trans folks and you’re calling it a distraction. what the fuck is wrong with you.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

yeah don’t come back on an alt you fucking moron

I don’t give a shit about trans people

that much is clear, you use trans folks like a fucking cudgel to make a shitty point. but I also don’t believe this:

I was talking about the right wings nonsense.

given you seem to be a bitcoin right-libertarian at best. it’s time for you to fuck off, again

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago
[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

holy shit we didn’t even have to dig to find out you’re garbage

thank you for making this the easiest ban ever

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they named themselves Syrus hashtag Blog? like, on purpose?

In March, Google said it was altering its algorithms to tackle spammy AI content after 404 Media reported that Google News was still boosting spam sites. Just removing the spam sites from Google News is too much work or something.

now now David, having a small team maintain a blocklist wouldn’t be very Google scale. instead they have to deploy a myopic fucking algorithm designed by the same software powerhouse that decided we don’t want to see an article if the author’s name looks too foreign

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

god, that orange site thread immediately crawls up its own ass pretending that anti-spam LLMs will fix this and it’ll somehow be a better world (and absolutely not, you know, boiling) and also fucking e-commerce is better than the moon landing and the “collective FAANG” could go to mars tomorrow if only they applied themselves

seriously, if you want to know what a concussion feels like, read the first couple screenfuls of that thread

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

I don’t think any of the reply guys I’m talking about work for the government, but I am pretty fucking angry that a lack of regulation and government oversight allows the companies I mentioned to flood the market with worthless, polluting grifttech they say needs dedicated power plants to scale to meet a fictional level of demand

it’d be nice if anyone was seriously considering regulation that’d stop these companies from doing stupid harmful shit. unfortunately they’re not (and the ability of the US government to effectively regulate any industry at all has just been effectively ended), so I don’t really have anything to write about in that area.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

holy fuck shut up, nobody fucking asked

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

see occasionally you meet a UFO person and they’re normal and you only find out about their interest in UFOs because it’s the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit. in effect, their UFO hobby is essentially a modified radio/birdwatching hobby that’s hopefully driving them to learn more about the world around them

but much more often you meet a UFO person and hear the absolute worst thing you’ve heard all month while looking for an escape route, without making it too obvious because you’re fairly certain they’re armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up because you wouldn’t discuss lizard people with them.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

having unfortunately known several David Icke fans: it’s always veiled antisemitism, and the veil gradually disappears the more you let them talk

e: yes, the area I live in is teeming with various flavors of conspiracy nut, why do you ask

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

it’s so common that I wish there was a specific name to put to that and every other type of reply guy that cryptocurrencies, chan culture, and meme stocks “gifted” us. it feels like the bullshit tactics cropped up faster than anyone really was able to catalog them, though a lot of them are really recognizable when you’ve seen them a few times.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (15 children)

so I think I must just have one of those faces cause it’s been something that multiple former friends have revealed to me, and it’s usually a weird show of trust? and it’s always something like “you know, I just think fairies must be real, like they’ve got to be out there? you know?”

and in all cases I’ve gone “…oh that’s cool” and mentally earmarked that person as “do not trust with heavy machinery”

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