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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.
lol, Bruce Sterling posted this to bsky: (image)
@dgerard @froztbyte given that anecdote from William Gibson about how realising that his first computer actually *used a spinning disk full of rust to store its data* crushed his romantic ideas about technology, this rings true
@dgerard
I don’t understand the hate for transition lenses. You don’t have to get them in frames last fashionable in 1982.
I guess the point is the dude won’t have lasik.
Lasik? Rip those eyes out and put cybereyes in! For one hole glorious year I could see in infrared. (Sadly the company went bankrupt and they repo’ed my eye, so that is why there is a hole now, at least I didn’t splurge for both eyes).
transition lenses = photochromic lenses
(i thought for a moment it was another term for varifocals, but no, Transitions is a company that makes photochromic lenses)
Duh, my bad. I thought it was something like varifocals too.
Photochromic lenses were a nerd staple when I was a teenager. Dunno if/how popular they are now.
@gerikson @dgerard I’m about to take delivery, next week, of my new photochromic varifocals
If you’re thinking “sounds cripplingly expensive”, you’d be right. Don’t get old
i am the guy of that age, and i would never get anything else, and yes fuck they are
@gerikson
Lasik doesn’t work for every vision problem.
That’s because it doesn’t use AI…
Another one
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112690475011154532
edit seems to be a whole bunch of similar ones.
yeah it’s a new meme format with an AI wojak generator