Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    I’ve also seen mention of “Fable” and I’ve been too sick to go check up on whatever the fuck that is

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      Mythos with extra safety dust sprinkled on top and they listened to The Safety Dance while writing the system prompt. Also a hand painted sign on the front that says “no chinese were serius”

      Hope you get to feeling better fast!

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        after calling the con about a super hacker AI the “mythos”, now they’re calling the next spiel “fable”? are they like, just taking the piss at this point?

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        okay damn you o7 I checked

        Claude Fable 5 introduces our 5th model generation for your most ambitious work. Tackle days-long, complex, and asynchronous tasks previous models couldn’t sustain.

        folks, can I get a “please god pay us for even more tokens” for 500?

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        and they listened to The Safety Dance

        not sure they’re cool enough even to do that

        Hope you get to feeling better fast!

        ty! rest is helping, but why are sinuses

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              It’s pretty good! The kids want to be influenza for dragoncon lol

              It’s on netflix in the states

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                It’s on netflix in the states

                their catalogue is notoriously variable across countries, and it’s even worse in ZA (we are often-disregarded by various content cartels). but since all of these shitters just ran headlong for reinventing cable monopolies so rapidly… I stopped entertaining the “you need to have 7 streaming services and 3 flavoured vpns to circumvent region-blocking” dance a couple of years back

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      Let’s all just agree that it’s a beloved RPG game by Lionhead Studios and we’ll leave it at that