Want to wade into the sandy, spooky 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 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. The spooks are well underway.)
A lesswrong has a cri de coeur:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZAqaQrAimgfweHGSr/nathan-young-s-shortform?commentId=LEpKzfwr8oibwBWw3
I did a shallow dive on the subject of that, he was thrown out of lighthaven primarily because he didn’t pay (they let non payers hang out for a bit but not after 11pm) but secondarily because he made people feel uncomfortable. He was not thrown out for probably being a rapist, in fact people were starstruck to meet the author of the rapeblog. His writing is utterly disgusting but the lighthaven account does provide an interesting window into rat spaces that rats themselves won’t.