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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems (awful.systems)

submitted 3 months ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going "oh, yeah, uh.... actually, no, fuck that shit. we'll do it ourselves" in response to broadcom's attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Free SFnal short story idea, came to me literally in a dream:

Dude is living his best life, beatiful house, beatiful wife, gets a job doing computer stuff "improving the world". But his big fancy work computer is wasting a lot of space so he reformats it/installs Nix, and suddenly everythings gone, all grey wireframe, no way out. Turns out he was given root to his own simulation and there's no backup.

Feels I should have read this somehwere but haven't read short SF in ages so...

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read about this gross Robo Anne Frank LLM by a company called "School AI": Bluesky post (looks like via an activitypub bridge, but I can't be bothered to find the canonical link), News Article, School AI's website.

Gee it sure is weird how all these digital clones the AI companies keep coming up with all have the exact same (lack of a) personality.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

trying to write a thread about polytopia but my images won't upload >:(. idk what i'm doing wrong, i've tried on both my desktop and my phone

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Starting to think we're about at the point where you could make the best search engine on the market in these three easy steps:

Search Wikipedia for whatever the user typed and show the top result first.
Check if dot com, org, and net exist and show them in the order of popularity.
End of page.

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