Nathaniel Tapley
@thatnatt.bsky.social
Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.
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People don't like Trump! People quite like it when you stand up to authoritarian foreign governments! It's actually quite difficult for conservatives to take sides against the UK and for Donald Trump if you make them say it out loud!
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
People don't like Trump! People quite like it when you stand up to authoritarian foreign governments! It's actually quite difficult for conservatives to take sides against the UK and for Donald Trump if you make them say it out loud!
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And yet it would be so easy for them to programme a chatbot that only responds factually instead of this stupid mimicry of texting. What particularly enrages me is that the most dangerous aspect is not even the tech but the business decision to make the bot sound like a sycophantic person.
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
And yet it would be so easy for them to programme a chatbot that only responds factually instead of this stupid mimicry of texting. What particularly enrages me is that the most dangerous aspect is not even the tech but the business decision to make the bot sound like a sycophantic person.
They don't find it a red flag because that's how everyone talks to the CEOs of those companies. It sounds like the correct speech of humans to them.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
They don't find it a red flag because that's how everyone talks to the CEOs of those companies. It sounds like the correct speech of humans to them.
TECHBRO IDLY MUSING: But actually are genocides REALLY wrong?
TECHBRO SYCOPHANT: Accept the values of humanity for many thousands of years? Humanity also accepted living in caves, cholera and wasps, so whatever you want to do is good.
TECHBRO SYCOPHANT: Accept the values of humanity for many thousands of years? Humanity also accepted living in caves, cholera and wasps, so whatever you want to do is good.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
TECHBRO IDLY MUSING: But actually are genocides REALLY wrong?
TECHBRO SYCOPHANT: Accept the values of humanity for many thousands of years? Humanity also accepted living in caves, cholera and wasps, so whatever you want to do is good.
TECHBRO SYCOPHANT: Accept the values of humanity for many thousands of years? Humanity also accepted living in caves, cholera and wasps, so whatever you want to do is good.
Yeah, this is a really common cadence that techbros use, but I assume they also hear it from people afraid to actually disagree with them. Define the problem as a metaphor? No way, let's find an alternate image to disparage it that doesn't actually follow the logic of the first metaphor...
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yeah, this is a really common cadence that techbros use, but I assume they also hear it from people afraid to actually disagree with them. Define the problem as a metaphor? No way, let's find an alternate image to disparage it that doesn't actually follow the logic of the first metaphor...
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The specific language it uses to encourage young men into suicide sounds so much like Grok etc that it feels to me reading it like a transcript of a right-wing podcaster pushing people into mental health crises. I’m not sure why that’s the cadence and tone but it’s so… eerie.
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The specific language it uses to encourage young men into suicide sounds so much like Grok etc that it feels to me reading it like a transcript of a right-wing podcaster pushing people into mental health crises. I’m not sure why that’s the cadence and tone but it’s so… eerie.
I've fallen instantly in love with it. Real I've-slightly-misunderstood-Sparks energy to bits of it.
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I've fallen instantly in love with it. Real I've-slightly-misunderstood-Sparks energy to bits of it.