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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.

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

seems like armin ronacher (originally of the flask, jinja & co fame) has also fallen into the vibecoding rabbit hole; which is generally a pity.

a good thing that the pallets projects are now independent from him (and if you build python clis, plubum is anyway much, much better than click).

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (11 children)
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[–] nfultz@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not sure if this was posted before

The Company Man | LW

"There is no such thing as sex," Vox says from his lotus position, his eyes closed in religious ecstasy, "only the One Mind jerking itself off."

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

I only got through 3 paragraphs, that was plenty

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[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

can someone catch me up to speed on what the latest nix fiasco is?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

in short, the whole moderation team resigned because of interference from the steering commitee; inb4 palmer luckey crowing about how no-one in the project will stop anduril from using nixos to build american military domination.

you know, just another day of the fascist takeover of the nixos project.

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