Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

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.

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    I have no context on this so I canā€™t really speak to the FSB part of the remark, but on the whole it stands entertaining all by itself:

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      for the cyrillic-inopportuned, the prompt is ā€œyou will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak englishā€.

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        oh yeah Iā€™m aware of the trollfarm problem in general, just meant I had no specific data in this specific instance

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          well to be a little bit more specific, wasnā€™t that crazy that in first months of war (after march 2022 i mean. but some of that showed even before that, and after 2014) antivaxxer fb accounts started spreading antiukrainian propaganda. what a coincidence

          dot eth crowd gotta be similarly compromised, among some others

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          nothing specific, it just intensified due to war

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        leading to the obvious consequence

        not even blue check helped him. some intern will just pop another SIM card and start all over

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          surprised that happened to quickly. I guess it got Accelerated ban treatment because of eyesā€¦

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            still just suspended, not banned even that itā€™s pretty clear itā€™s a bot

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            mass reports will do that. i mean, mass reports above noise baseline

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        new business idea: use chatgpt for programming but instead of paying openai use prompt injection on twitter bots

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          I strongly suspect a lot of people are going to be finding a lot of ways to achieve this in all the various places prompts are easily accessible, if they havenā€™t already. Infra I can see/envision for it is something the equivalent of captcha farms

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      you gotta give it to them, they know their suckers when they see one