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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.

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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

someone re-invented email-threading. It's billed as a way to have "long and complex discussions." Their prototypical example? Yud's utterly pointless thoughts on imaginary scenarios conjured up by his immense brain. Orange site is skeptical and yearns for 4chan instead.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The feature I am looking forward to the most in comminication apps is having a machine learning model listen to those "quick calls", generate summary and action items and post them right back in the thread. You get the benefits of both worlds that way.

Oh, you do, do you?

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Announced a year ago. AFAIK nothing like it actually exists yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

Fractal sealions

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their entire manifesto could have been replaced with:

"Oh hey check out our threads in threads demo so you can comment on comments!"

Like it's not that deep. It doesn't need a manifesto.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This manifesto could have been an e-mail!

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

Hi, Im threadGPT, I am an advanced AI which will make concise bullet points out of longer email or comments, here is a bulletpointed list of the above comment.

  • This manifesto could have been an e-mail!
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago
  • As a large language model, if anyone deserved to have a Tamagotchi of them tortured for all eternity ...