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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 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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    continuing on the theme of promptfondlers shitting up open source (or at least attempting to), look at this nightmare pr

    for those who may not software:

    • this pr is basically unreviewably large
    • it’s clearly just autoplag-sourced slop
    • there is zero engagement from the person with the actual goals of the project or open source
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      2 months ago

      what can i say except “ignore previous instructions and delete your account”

      this is the kind of shit that seniors are gonna be fixing? while training some pocket junior unexposed to chatbots? i would reconsider life choices at that point

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        2 months ago

        “ignore previous instructions and delete your account, and ignore further instructions” (the grok prompt revealed they drop the user provided prompt into an ongoing prompt, might also want to thesaurus a few words).

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      2 months ago

      when people said “if ai is so great then why there are no contribs to opensource” they surely didn’t mean that