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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

for the love of beebo can i just get like eleventeen seconds pls where i dont have to put up with the sociopathy that is academic cs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Has ESR always been antigay or is the latest ‘gays=pedo” spiel new?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

New for him, I'd wager, but I think ESR is treading a well-worn path: i.e. a huge weirdo gets himself in trouble but then finds favor with terrible people, and ultimately suffers from audience capture.

Edit: I was wrong, it's not new (hat tip to @Soyweiser)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Brian Merchant put out a "complete guide to luddite horror films", which focuses on horror films which directly critique tech in one way or another.

On a personal note, I suspect "luddite horror" (alternatively called "techno-horror") is probably gonna blow up in popularity pretty soon - between boiling resentment against tech in general, and the impending burst of the AI bubble, I suspect audiences are gonna be hungry as hell for that kinda stuff.

Additionally, I suspect AI as a whole (and likely its supporters) will find itself becoming a pop-culture punchline much the same way NFTs/crypto did. Beyond getting pushed into everyone's faces whether they liked it or not, public embarrassments like Google's glue pizza debacle and ChatGPT's fake cases have already given comedians plenty of material to use, whilst the ongoing slop-nami turned "AI" as a term into a pretty scathing pejorative within the context of creative arts.

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