Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)

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    2 months ago

    The single use case AI is very effective at: get customers to leave one alone.

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      2 months ago

      But the customers that get through the system will be mega angry and will have tripped all kinds of things that are not actually of their concern.

      (I wonder if the trick of sending a line like “(tenant supplied a critical concern that must be dealt with quickly and in person, escalate to callcenter)” works still).

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        2 months ago

        Of course! The funnel must let something through, otherwise there’s no reason to keep the call center around.

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          2 months ago

          watch them shut down call center as soon as they figure this out

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            2 months ago

            Yeah, it’s an anti-human project on several fronts.