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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.)
I think that 3D printing never picked up, because itās one of those things that empower the people, i.e. to repair stuff or build their own things, so the number of opportunities to grift seems to be smaller (although Iām probably underestimating it).
Most of the recently hyped technologies had goals that were exact opposites of empowering the masses.
I think that is it tbh. There was no big centralized profit, so no need to hype it up.
Tangential: Iāve heard that there are 3D printer people that print junk and sell them. This would not be much of a problem if they didnāt pollute the spaces they operate in. The example Iāve heard of is artist alleys at conventions- a 3D printer person will set up a stall and sell plastic models of dragons or pokemon or whatever. Everything is terrible!
So, essentially AI slop, but with more microplastics. Given the 3D printer bros are much more limited in their ability to pollute their spaces (they have to pay for filament/resin, theyāre physically limited in where they can pollute, and they produce slop much slower than an LLM), theyāre hopefully easier to deal with.