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Is Cowbee legit?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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Cowbee is harmless. Chronically online weirdo who will answer a question you didn't ask with 15 cited paragraphs from 4 books, 2 articles, and 3 papers. All of it perfect. It's honestly as impressive as it is weird and sad. Site would be significantly less interesting without em.
Usually incredibly biased papers. Honestly incredible they’re able to find stuff that biased, they must be scrolling past pages and pages of real sources to get to the misinformation.
I mean, I've mostly found it impressive, even if his blatant biases are glaring; it's difficult to prove him wrong in a manner that's satisfactory (granted I feel I have on some points, he just reframes away everything like a worm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
The worminess is part of it, I've seen people not engage with the text, or reframe an argument. What cowbee does is avant guarde, bespoke, couture communism apologia. This place is his canvas and his words are his art. If you told me he was just a performative communist banksy, I would believe you.
Iirc their bit is ml instead of communist
Elegant wordsmithing yourself. I get what you mean, I didn't give it as much thought prior.
Thanks.
I remember digging into those sources and found them less than impressive or they were saying something other than what the actual topic was. Might be a case of dropping so many hard to find sources (some random book) that you know nobody is checking that