Most people here are screaming “NO IT’S NOT!” when people point out the large increase in sheltered homeless population likely driven by immigrants but it’s not judgmental or anti-immigrant. 100,000 people were bused to cities and needed shelter. This is a fact.

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.

When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').