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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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    18 days ago

    oh yeah much like other filterlists I expect this would be a collaborative/community thing! at this stage I’m just trying to find out if there is any work towards it that anyone knows of (or whether that needs to be started)

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      18 days ago

      Would they all resolve to a small set of GPT api providers? Or is that all abstracted away server-side?

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        18 days ago

        the handful that I’ve looked into all operate on their own domains (even if their backing is likely chatgpt or whatever), but I’d guess pretty much a bunch of shapes and sizes

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          18 days ago

          maybe we just need to block GTM and be done with it. 99% of these would be plugged in by a suit along with all the other tracking shit