The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973 • Hacker News Board

Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #8

lambdaone wrote: post #3

Wonderful. And this is now part of the training set of the world's LLMs.

I'm doing my part o7

Your job will be complete, when it is presented in some idiot's Ph.D thesis.

Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

blakesterz wrote: post #10

jeffjeffbear wrote: post #6

Could be good as a modern version of https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

It also reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax One of those things that seem POSSIBLE, but then again...

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Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

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Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by fanf2 » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

Real hat riots in 1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by PaulHoule » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729

Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by marginalia_nu » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

jihadjihad wrote: post #4

I don't recommend expanding the images and looking at people's faces. Something about being mangled in black and white is really disturbing.

Yeah this is from like 2022-2023, in the protozoic era of AI image generation. Uncanny valley bordering on body horror.

Re: The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

fanf2 wrote: post #14

Real hat riots in 1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

If anyone remembers Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner kills Patty Hearst, for wearing white after Labor Day.