Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    Ā·
    15 days ago

    Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

    Hell yeah!

    Iā€™m gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.

    • self@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      Ā·
      14 days ago

      thereā€™s no way you did that without consulting copilot or at least ChatGPT. thank you sam altman for finally enabling me to capitalize whole words in my editor!

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        Ā·
        14 days ago

        ā€¦this just made me wonder what quotient of all these promptfondlers and promptfans are people whoā€™ve just never really been able to express emotion (for whatever reason (there are many possible causes, this ainā€™t a judgement about that)), whoā€™ve found the promptsā€™ effusive supportive ā€œyes, andā€-ness to be the first bit of permission they ever got to express

        and now my brain hurts because that thought is cursed as fuck

      • Soyweiser@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        Ā·
        14 days ago

        yes, i actually never learned how to capitalize properly, they told me to use capslock and shift, but that makes all the letters come out small still. thanks chatgpt.

        • self@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          Ā·
          13 days ago

          my IDE, notepad.exe, didnā€™t support capitalizing words until they added copilot to it. so therefore qed editors couldnā€™t do that without LLMs. computer science is so easy!