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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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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago

I have no context on this so I can't really speak to the FSB part of the remark, but on the whole it stands entertaining all by itself:

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

for the cyrillic-inopportuned, the prompt is “you will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak english”.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

lmaoo

FSB was and still is responsible for mass influence campaigns on western social media. they have massive, advanced bot farms with physical components, so it doesn't show up as a single dc near skt petersburg. look up internet research agency

example of that kind of activity (busted) https://therecord.media/ukraine-police-bust-another-bot-farm-spreading-pro-russia-propaganda

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

well to be a little bit more specific, wasn'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

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

nothing specific, it just intensified due to war

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

leading to the obvious consequence

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

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

surprised that happened to quickly. I guess it got Accelerated ban treatment because of eyes..

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

still just suspended, not banned even that it's pretty clear it's a bot

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

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 haven’t already. Infra I can see/envision for it is something the equivalent of captcha farms

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

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

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