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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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    How about some quantum sneering instead of ai for a change?

    They keep calling it a ‘processor,’ but it’s actually a refrigerated probability sculpture they beg to act like it Is a NAND gate for just half a microsecond

    “Refrigerated probability sculpture” is outstanding.

    Photo is from the recent CCC, but I can’t find where I found the image, sorry.

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    A photograph of a printed card bearing the text:

    STOP DOING QUANTUM CRYPTOANALYSIS

    • DECADES of research and billions in funding, yet the largest number a quantum computer quantum physics experiment has ever factorized remains a terrifying 21
    • They keep calling it a ‘processor,’ but it’s actually a refrigerated probability sculpture they beg to act like it Is a NAND gate for just half a microsecond - fever dreams of the QUANTUM CULT
    • The only countdown ticking toward Y2Q is researchers counting the years of funding they can squeeze out of it
    • Harvest now, decrypt later: because someday quantum computers will unlock the secret… that all the encrypted traffic was just web scrapers feeding Al model training
    • Want to hack a database? No need to wait for some Quantum Cryptocalypse, Just ask it politely with ‘OR 1=1’

    (I can’t actually read the final bit, so I can’t describe it for you, apologies)

    They have played us for absolute fools.