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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
big walmart is watching you.
https://old.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/1gqphel/body_cameras_for_front_end/
Didnāt have that on my bingo card for this year, but itās on brand. A big part of The Onionās MO is just riding out the insanity and inject a little of their own.
Got recommended a video from a friend, and its a damn good sneer at the state of YouTube sponsorships:
Folks, huge W today. I was hanging out with my parents today and my mother was scrolling her feed, commenting out loud about everything she saw when she came across some autoplag content. āThis is fake!ā she said, and I could not be prouder. Not just because she IDed the slop, but because it meant she at least has a better brain than my trumper family members that habitually repost trumper slop.
Cherry on top: she showed me a text chain where she was trolling a āmy phone died, this is my new numberā scammer.
I know weāre trying to cut back on the US politics for the sake of everyoneās sanity, but Musk getting sneered by his own confabulator is still pretty good.
Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Wonāt Open
I always had a hunch Teslas were death traps but Jesus Christ
Yeah itās sad. As the article points out similar incidents have happened repeatedly. Anyone who saw the door design could have (and did!) predict something like this would happen. My coworker was trapped in his Tesla in his garage for 15 minutes (and he wasnāt in a panic).
Look at the picture of the manual door release here: Itās pretty well hidden, you reach in and pull up on the door buttons.
ā¦ then scroll down and look at the picture of the rear door manual release. You have to pull off some trim from inside the pocket, pull off another panel, and then pull a cable.
ā¦ but wait! Thereās more!
Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.
Jesus, I hope the engineers who signed off on this think about what theyāve done and do better. I would say I hope someone regulated bad emergency door releases out of existence butā¦ yāknow.
Imagine what other flaws these cars have if the tried to āinnovateā like this on the solved technology that is fucking doors.
The lack of a speedometer in front of your face is a pretty glaring quality issue. You have to turn your head to look at the massive touchscreen. The one that replaces all other dashboards and most tactile controls
for manufacturing cost savingsto be a cool futuristic vehicle of the future.I wonāt even start talking about the whole CyberStuck thing again because thatās too easy; except to point out that it has turn buttons on the steering wheel instead of a turn signal stalk, a shifter on the ceiling, and the steering wheel is not round.
I only recently bought my first car and itās just old enough that it didnāt even have a backup camera until I got one installed. Honestly half the reason of buying used was so I could have a car without a touchscreen haha.
The job site decided to recommend me an article calling for the removal of most human oversight from military AI on grounds of inefficiency, which is a pressing issue since apparently weāre already living in the Culture.
The Strategic Liability of Human Oversight in AI-Driven Military Operations
Conclusion
As AI technology advances, human oversight in military operations, though rooted in ethics and legality, may emerge as a strategic liability in future AI-dominated warfare.
Oh unknowable genie of the sketchily curated datasetsClaude, come up with an optimal ratio of civilian to enemy combatant deaths that will allow us to bomb that building with the giant red cross that you labeled an enemy stronghold.As AI technology advances, human oversight in military operations, though rooted inethics and legality, may emerge as a strategic liabilityin future AI-dominated warfare.This is awful for sure, but thankfully low impact. Turns out that this Terminator Enjoyer is an unemployed idea guy. Maybe heās wrangling for an IDF contract?
From jobbie site:
āAn accomplished manager, with expertise in developing innovative concepts and ideas into client services operations and streamlining delivery of products/services within Defence / Cyber Security and Information Technology industry.ā
and
Technology and Innovation executive , Currently on short sabbatical May 2024 - Present 7 months
Also, the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace aināt what it used to be, is it?
human oversigh :(
and daiquiri nominations :)
Eliminating Mothman is our prime strattgic priority
Private Bbailcy! I see you back there! Cut it out with the oversighing, youāre dragging down morale KPIs for this quarter!
Also, I the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace aināt what it used to be, is it?
Is that a screenshot from Command&Conquer 4?
what if C&4, but in the metaverse?
So, ethics and legality are strategic liabilities? Jesus fucking Christ, thatās not even sneer-worthy. This guy is completely fucking insane.
This is straight up Hague material right there, all he wants is plausible deniability
Computer said so š„ŗ
e: thatās a shit take for several reasons and we have autonomous killers already. itās called air defense (in some modes) because how many civilians are going at mach fuck with RCS of 0.1m^2, thatās no civilian thatās ballistic missile. also lmao at speed of decision
perun video on this topic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tou8ahLZvP4
If youāve convinced yourself that youāll mostly be fighting the AIs of a rival always-chaotic-evil alien species or their outgroup equivalent, you probably think they are.
Otherwise I hope shooting first and asking questions later will probably continue to be frowned upon in polite society even if itās automated agents doing the shooting.
Just a general comment on the state of things. Now that Musk has fused with the ideological flesh chimera of the next US government and is tapping others to be absorbed, any US politics will be TechTakes-adjacent. Perhaps some ground rules must be set so we arenāt drowned in non-procedurally generated slop.
Either way, Iām cutting back on the musk unless it is directly sneerable.
Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles
President-elect Trump has tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory group focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of the government.
Trump announced Tuesday that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead his āDepartment of Government Efficiencyā (DOGE), an initiative meant to āslash excess regulations, cut wasteful expendituresā and restructure federal agencies.
We live in the dumbest timeline
I wasnāt expecting complete fascist victory to be soā¦ cringe
skibidi purges
This is literally going to be an embezzlement op isnāt it
Its gonna be the largest embezzlement scheme in US history, that much Iām certain. How much damage the pair will do to the federal gov Iām not sure, but I expect there wonāt be much left of it once theyāre done.
@BlueMonday1984 Itās going to be like Alves dos Reis all over again, isnāt it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis
hot sneer from lizzy w:
I voted for Liz in 2020 :( instead they gave me diamond joe
@BlueMonday1984 I am dead. From FremdschƤmen
Such meme. Much wow. I see weāre continuing with giving dumb names to everything the Muskrat is involved in. Glad that hasnāt changed.
Kabosu didnāt die for this.
Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division
Our Motto: āSic diximus vobisā
saltman: no better time to be a startup
begins invisible accordion
Then Curtis Marvin, very smart guy, went to MIT like my famous uncle, he said, ābut sir, a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctorsā
Many such cases, I said.
masterful endofunctor, sir
Have any of the trumps been on the red scare pod yet? Feel like thatās on the timeline.
But Trump canāt explain things, and Urbit defies explanation. So does the statement āTrump explains Urbitā represent undefined behavior in English?
What is worse? Trump explaining urbit and coming close? Or him explaining it so wrong you feel the need to set the record straight about the gravest misconceptions? (āTrump said Elon invented it, but it actually was Yarvin, also as Elon didnt invent it, he certainly didnt say āgood idea sirā to Trumpā).
I think in this case, the equivalent of a compiler error for undefined behavior would be a swiftly forgotten wire story entitled āTrump promotes cryptocurrency projectā published on a Friday afternoon. Just one more scam among the flood, and not one that can be offered for easy monthly payments with a banner ad in the margins of an RSBN broadcast.
Yeah, everyone in the traditional media seems to be even more committed to sane-washing than they were in the lead up to the election.
Though the spike doge got today is definitely in the ālaugh to avoid screamingā column.
Heads up, Zitronās gonna drop
Shouldāve probably posted this earlier, but fuck it: South Koreaās ā4Bā Movement Goes Viral in US After Trump Elected
ā4Bā is shorthand for a South Korean movement in which women refuse to engage in heterosexual marriage, childbirth, dating, or sex with men. It comes from the words bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae, and bisekseu, all of which start with a Korean prefix for āno.ā It originated in 2019 in response to a culture that women felt was patriarchal beyond repair, and has since gained some traction in other countries.
Also, fuck it, quick sidenote:
This is mostly gut instinct, like most of the Trump predictions Iāve made, but Iām expecting a spike in full-blown misandry over Trumpās term. Mainly because Trump managed to win over Gen Z men this election, and because the Trump administration is almost certainly going to town on abortion/womenās rights.
Trump managed to win over Gen Z men
ā¦in the sense that more Gen Z men voted for him than in the last election. I am seeing this spin a lot and it honestly seems like a deliberate scapegoating ploy.
The exit poll stats seem to tell a different story.
Data from NBC News considering ākey statesā (apparently Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin)
Yes, young men favored Trump. So did all other men (and even Gen X women, if narrowly). Among both genders included in the data, Gen Z was the least likely to vote for Trump and the most likely to vote for Harris.
Granted, these stats are only from the aforementioned states and canāt represent the full picture, but they are the only relevant statistics I have seen posted on the matter and the best data I could quickly find. If anyone can show me the data that the darn kids these days are to blame, Iād like to see sime data.
Serious data might not be available for months. For comparison, the Pew Research Center didnāt come out with their numbers for the 2020 election until June 2021. Who knows? The country might burn down before next summer.
a spike in full-blown misandry
Misandry as in something equal to misogyny? If so, then I have to disagree, since men have historically been absolute pieces of shit towards women throughout history and misandry has never really manifested significantly.
E: I noticed I have a downvote. Hello to our sole MRA lurker!
Misandry as a concrete power structure that advantages women and disadvantages men? Unlikely, though with the likely resurgence of active patriarchy we should expect to see the negative consequences this has for men, especially non-normative men. Patriarchal masculinity is a game that necessarily has more losers than winners. Iād go so far as to say that some of the more politically-minded incels and MRAs are going to get even louder because while they blame feminism the actual source of the problems theyāre feeling is patriarchy.
Misandry as a vague cultural meme about men being terrible and the friction that this causes, particularly for men struggling to find a healthy way to exist under patriarchal masculinity as discussed above? Very likely. At the same time while this wonāt feel good for men itās worth noting that these men are going to be complaining about losing a game where women are game pieces rather than players, which is pretty crappy. Like a king complaining to a pawn about how cruel it is to only move one square at a time without acknowledging that the entire game revolves around them.
I actually have no idea how to navigate this in a healthy way since Iāve definitely been on the losing end of patriarchal masculinity in ways that while deeply hurtful are very different in kind even if not in scope from the ways that system hurts women.
Misandry as a vague cultural meme about men being terrible and the friction that this causes, particularly for men struggling to find a healthy way to exist under patriarchal masculinity as discussed above?
Looking back, thatās definitely the kind of thing I was expecting to spike. I was just too deeply peeved about vaguely gestures at everything to see that clearly.
is this a possible thing: all the AI assistant stuff being forced onto us in the next gen hardware is gonna need significant computing power bumps to support it, is this creating a potential surplus of computing power in all devices that could time very well with an excessive skeuomorphic UI design response to the decade of bland flatness weāve endured thatās gonna cook the cpus on the devices of everyone else?
Just chiming in to say to hell with skeuomorphism, I still want Apple Platinum back. Bonus points if it comes with an option for Dark Platinum that was only present in the early releases of OS X Server.
is this creating a potential surplus of computing power in all devices
Haha, no. Flat UI was done for reasons of fashion, not efficiency. UI will always expand to consume the available memory and compute, regardless of how boring it looks. Exhibit A: Electron!
yeah but I didnāt say that flat ui was created for efficiency. Any efficiency of a flat ui is cancelled out by the excesses of client-side JS. I know it is fashion, I was there. But I also know that there is a sense that it is efficient by the designers that design with it.
The ongoing trend of āflat UIā is largely not due to processing power though. Even inexpensive computers have CPUs and GPUs that could push very fancy graphics without problems, see what the same machines can do in game graphics (and I donāt mean high-end gaming, I mean the kind of simple gaming that can run on a low-end laptop these days). Some of the early GUIs in the 1980s had āflat designā due to performance limitations, but that went away in the 1990s. Today it could still be a reason in some embedded system scenarios with simple microcontrollers, but not in a desktop or laptop computer, and also not in smartphones or tablets.
The reason we have the bland flat design is the same why we still have things like āall surfaces are ugly glossy black plasticā (luckily this one is on its way out) or āwar on physical buttonsā aka ātouchscreens everywhereāā¦ itās simply a design trend.
@nightsky ātouchscreens everywhereā isnāt an aesthetic choice, itās a cost-of-goods choice: which adds more to the cost of a physical product, a bunch of bespoke embossed buttons/keys for specific tasks, or a single mass-produced touchscreen?
Itās the same reason modern electronics uses embedded microcontrollers rather than actual properly designed task-specific gate arrays.
I hear you, but I didnāt say flat ui is due to processing power. My line of thought is that a sudden bump in available processing power might prompt designers to feel that elaborate uis are fine now because despite flat ui not being an efficiency thing, it is definitely perceived as one by the average designer who doesnāt know how much of the css used to render it is generated client-side via js
to the computing side, and with the proviso that in my own estimation of my skills I am at best slightly less than ādangerously cluelessā: unfortunately not as much as may be desired because the kind of chips being added are fairly specialised silicon
itās not impossible that people may find other uses for it over time but to the best of my knowledge as it stands right now much of this shit is dead weight the moment this bubble pops
(I donāt think it will all go entirely away; there are some ML uses that are not complete trash. but thatās a long different arc)
Iām not sure I follow the skeu side of your comment?
My baseline understanding is that āNPUs,ā as such, are vector accelerators with perhaps lower precision and definitely lower peak TDP. I say this because much of the incremental ML research Iāve skimmed over seems to be around getting away with lower precision, dropping down to FP8 or even FP4 from FP16 when they can get away with it.
Iām still confused as to why and how this is an acceptable tradeoff to firing up an iGPU with precise power/TDP stepping. Perhaps one of those situations where the power budget and latency to fire up the whole GPU block or burst it to max power ends up costing as much as the actual calculation. I think for purposes of this discussion, we also need a source that sheds light on the architectural differences between NPUs and GPU shader/execution units.
that;s exactly the catch I was hoping wouldnāt be the case. When the AI shit is abandoned, is the hardware useful for regular stuffā¦
So, from what youāre saying: Generative AI is fucking up in the past, present, and future
broad brush strokes, yes largely that
thereās some extremely fucking interesting details in the weeds, but thatās beyond the scope of merely a comment (and also I donāt feel equipped to make a goodpost about it as yet)
More election shit, unfortunately. This time itās hot tea from SRD:
funnily enough I had posted in that thread and some neolib guy enthusiastically recommended tracingwoodgrains on David Gerard (?!) in my replies
hereās a matt yglesias article on the ordeal that i think is pretty even-handed
eat a dick
How cute, look at that wild rat trying to appear neutral and unbiased and not-at-all a rat and Just Leaving This Here for you to read where āthisā refers to the entire fucking canon of rationalist writings.
itās so practiced too ā āso I guess you could read Wikipedia but also! this tracingwoodgrains guy might have some points worth considering!ā and from there youāre meant to ping-pong off the Wikipedia article into traceās long-winded literal horseshit and the rest of the inane crap thatās linked after that, til you can no longer remember the non-rationalist sources youāve read because your mindās overwhelmed with the worst shit ever written, but you feel like you thoroughly researched both sides (and thatās only part of why centrism is a fucking trap)
how do I know? because this:
finally, iām going to link to some posts from slatestarcodex and astral codex ten, its sucessor blog, some classic ones just to give you a feel for what people appreciate about it at its best
is exactly how Joe Rogan fans get you listening to his stupid shit daily, til youāre no longer listening to his podcast (supposedly) āat its bestā and instead youāre just listening to an overwhelming volume of right-wing horseshit with an occasional nod to both sides centrism so you donāt feel your world get smaller and darker as you embrace fascism
Just trying to be helpful! Iām definitely not trying to introduce you to this cult that was called out as a cult a few comments earlier! Which you would agree with me if you read all the things I posted and realised that we are the reasonablists.
look, they are just neutral and balanced, and pretend awful.systems and sneerclub donāt exist because they donāt even mention it.
See, if you just learn about this shit when youāre in high school and slowly read and occasionally reread the essays over the course of a decade or so it doesnāt seem overwhelming at all!
Words words words and more words that link to even more words (that you can ctrl-f for the relevant bits!)
Holy shit I had no idea there was a left wing branch of the mad cryptofascist meme stock cult.
Missed opportunity in the headline: superstonkers go super bonkers
damn that is so much better
