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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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      itā€™s kind of comforting that the current attitude towards generative AI in some tech spaces is ā€œof course it canā€™t do cognition and it isnā€™t really good for anything, who said it wasā€ which is of course rich from the exact same posters who were breathlessly advertising for the tech as revolutionary both online and at work as recently as a couple of weeks ago (and a lot of them still hedge it with ā€œbut it might be useful in the near futureā€). the comfort is it feels like that attitude comes from deep embarrassment, like how the orange site started claiming it is and always was skeptical of crypto once the technology got irrevocably associated with scams and gambling and a lot of the easy money left

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        yeah, thereā€™s a stench of desperation from the defenders

        of course, as with crypto, there are uses (in the case of crypto , nothing legitimate). And it will be going to be a fallback for fondlers to point them out (for example, I believe that auto-generated audiobooks are viable, if theyā€™re generated from actual books)

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        I was watching a h0ffman stream the other day when someone happened to bring up autoplag in some context. didnā€™t see the asking context, but h0ffmanā€™s answer warmed my heart. paraphrased: ā€œwhat would you want to use that for? you wouldnā€™t steal a mod, why would you want to use a prompt? that stole from artists. fuck that shit.ā€

        (h0ffmanā€™s one of the names in the demoscene, often plays sets at compos, does some of his own demos, etc)

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      these chuds lack self awareness and they never realise that by moving the goalposts on brain stuff they are admitting their own idiocy.