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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    a dance concert led by the Fooming Shoggoths, with many songs that didnā€™t make it onto their April 1st album

    dunno about you, but that absolutely informs me about the event in fullness

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      Fooming Shoggoths

      On April 1st 2024, the LessWrong team released an album using the then-most-recent AI music generation

      No, nope, nononono, nope right off, no, nope.

      If the moon gets mad at us thatā€™s why

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      They are a satire of themselves. You really can read only that and perfectly imagine how insufferable the event is.

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        There is also the ā€˜Creating the Fooming shoggoths after action reportā€™ talk where they talk about how hard it was to get the AI to make the songs, and to get all the raunchy popculture references just right without it making references to Ernest Clines poetry.

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          Iā€™d rather see that than the concert, but thatā€™s a pretty low bar to meet. They are spending more time tricking the autocomplete into working than it would take to write goofy songs directly.