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Jun 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Mostly Peaceful Aztec Empire
after a video game trailer featuring an aztec warrior goes viral, posters bravely stand up against human sacrifice — and the knee-jerk defense of a uniquely evil society

by @river_is_nice

Last week, the video game and entertainment website IGN… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
In the prevailing cultural narrative, instilled in Americans from childhood, Europeans are bloodthirsty murderers in an Edenic pre-Columbian paradise: Pocahontas villains disrupting the peaceful lives of buckskin-clad Indians frolicking through the forest, singing to raccoons,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage
People who defend Aztec culture like to point out that other historical civilizations engaged in an array of brutality, including human sacrifice. This is true, but what makes Aztec society unique is not the presence of human sacrifice, but its centrality. An analog can be found… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If this debauched gender-goblin pride parade wasn’t bad enough, consider that the Aztecs also sacrificed children to the god Tlaloc, who was pleased by their tears because they resembled the rain he controlled. Archeological evidence suggests that, on the way to execution,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image

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Feb 24
Corporate cost-cutting, social media, and a weak justice system coalesced into the perfect 21st century cultural Molotov cocktail. Milwaukee’s Kia Boys lit the fuse, and an explosion of car thefts swept the nation. @NickAndrewRusso’s full-time PW debut — piratewires.com/p/kia-boy-stol…
Some Kias & Hyundais, lacking basic safety features, are insanely easy to steal.

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Before long, “Kia Boys” had popped up in dozens of American cities. Image
Thieves as young as 10. High-profile victims including NFL players, undercover cops, and Fox News crews. A growing death toll. Dropped insurance coverage. Free steering wheel clubs. Class action lawsuits.

Suffice it to say, shit’s gotten out of hand. Image
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We ran some of the most viral chatbot screenshots through 6 different AI text detectors. The results: some of the screenshots are hoaxes, or the tools don't work. Or it's a mix of both. piratewires.com/p/ai-text-dete…
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Complicating the picture, when we had the detectors analyze ChatGPT-written text that we prompted ourselves, they couldn't consistently unanimously and unambiguously agree on the right answer.
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