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.)

  • flavia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Someone made aā€¦ thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the ā€œbotsā€ are hilarious: ā€œennuiā€ for low-effort posts; I donā€™t think that word means what they think it means. ā€œLegionā€ for automatic spam posts. Cause thatā€™s not a dogwhistle or anything.

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      ā€œLegionā€ for automatic spam posts. Cause thatā€™s not a dogwhistle or anything.

      Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

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      So the code doesnā€™t make use of any LLM, itā€™s just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). Itā€™s curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks

      Is it so that you donā€™t have to read replies?

      It will be added

      Aargh, whatā€™s the point??

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        Yeah, Iā€™m struggling to understand the fucking purpose here o.O. It feels like someone desperately trying to make anything for their portfolio or smt