Hirvox@mastodon.onlinetoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024
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5 months ago@mountainriver @froztbyte Yes, and if confronted the memelord can retreat into the more palatable-in-polite-company form of “they just repeat what they’re told _as if_ they were reprogrammable and without any individual thought”. And _clearly_ the confronter is one of them, because they didn’t recognize this important nuance, thus proving the point.
@gerikson I second Use of Weapons, but I also like Excession and the Hydrogen Sonata, where the Culture has to do some self-reflection.