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"Posting through it" is a fairly nonsensical concept. It implies you're required to agree with people yelling at you, which you aren't.

Bluesky in particular has this problem because it inherited a kind of leftist crustpunk poster from 2016 Twitter. They had a weird affect where they hated "nerds" for some reason and pretended to be those jock bully characters from 80s high school movies.

The modern Bluesky form has evolved into being terrified of "AI" and screaming at anyone who uses it or has ever heard of it that it doesn't work and will never work but is also using up all the water and steals everyone's art and is going to make everyone unemployed and also you're a STEMlord who needs to take humanities classes to learn to be ethical.

They're currently working on inventing new slurs for AI chatbots which are mostly remarkably offensive.

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>They're currently working on inventing new slurs for AI chatbots which are mostly remarkably offensive.

That sounds awesome. Thanks for the tip. I'm gonna join this effort immediately.

By remarkably offensive I mean they're clearly just trying to get away with saying the N-word. The full version too. You should try living your life better.

Saying that making jokes about inanimate probability models is comparable to saying the N word is anti-Black racism. Completely inappropriate and divorced from reality.

Which of these are acceptable/unacceptable to you?

- posting about saying it "with a hard R"

- posting TikToks of yourself yelling "dirty clanker" at delivery robots on the street

- posting TikToks of yourself saying it in a sketch where you're a waitress in the South in the 1950s

- replying to people with prosthetic robot arms calling them "half clankas"

Cause those are all real. It's the internet, you should assume anything bad you can imagine is real.

https://www.tiktok.com/@supervilliansprax/video/754524076599...

Computers aren't people. Don't know how to clarify this any better.

I think this is a kind of victim-blaming. Slurs aren't caused by their targets. They're about the person saying them.

Slurs for AI? Maybe take to heart the idea that the Humanities are useful in that you don't end up having thoughts like this if you've studied them.

See, here's an example.

I think I have backup: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samm...

Note Peter Thiel (the source of literally everything this sort of person is upset about) is a philosophy major.

What is the purpose of calling someone a clanker?

Note this word is actually a one-off joke from Star Wars, but the reason they're saying it is that you can say it with a hard R.

The other words are worse.

I don’t believe this is true. The sort of people to use this slur are the ones supporting DEI and BLM.

i tried searching for clanker in bluesky and got loads and loads of results. they really love the word there. and they are absolutely the type of people to support DEI and BLM.

Well that's easy, you just take whichever position you want on the topic and then say everyone who disagrees with you is white.

i dont know what you mean here

Neckbeards, neckbeards whatcha gonna do?

Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?

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