Just two weeks til’ Halloween now.

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.)

    • SoyweiserEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      It’s unfortunately common that authors see their work posted, join the site, but then only use us for traffic. Hopefully this time helps them understand the difference between a symbiotic and parasitic relationship.

      This feels like a very weird thing to say. (I’m reminded of some weird things Elon Musks mom said about how twitter users should be more grateful for all the traffic or something).

      I mean the bit above it makes sense (making a hard only ‘25% of post can be self promotion’ seems like a recipe for disaster however) but this added line made me raise a few eyebrows.

    • lagrangeinterpolatorEnglish
      11·
      22 hours ago

      I really dislike how he believes that LLMs and fascism are “separate axes”. Where does he think the LLMs come from? Does the stork deliver them? Is ChatGPT powered by magic fairy dust? Does he think that Sam Altman is a great defender of liberalism and democracy who definitely hasn’t donated tons of money to Donald Trump?

      • istewartEnglish
        7·
        22 hours ago

        I can’t help but think it’s another instance of the unquestioning Californian Ideology assumption that all new technology is inherently liberatory.

          • BlueMonday1984OPEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            This can either be read as San Francisco or Science Fiction, and both readings work perfectly

          • istewartEnglish
            5·
            17 hours ago

            It’s not working, I spotted a probable hackernews all the way out in Modesto last week, they’re like the goddamn nutria now

      • TinyTimmyTokyoEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        He works for google, so he probably still thinks they’re not evil.

    • rhamphEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I am saying that the anti-fascist communities ended up […] uninterested in using LLMs

      :O

    • robjwellsEnglish
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Very disappointing, even if I was only ever a non-registered lurker. Gave in and DNS-blocked it and HN this morning (I had a HN-filtering userscript which in hindsight was just cope).

        • istewartEnglish
          8·
          23 hours ago

          I considered trying to get an account there, but the last ~18 months or so have made me feel the same way about Lobste.rs as I do about Bluesky. If you’re just running a lower-traffic version of the thing you’re trying to “improve” upon with slightly different moderation policies, you’re not going to build a lasting platform or community.

    • geriksonEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      came here to post that. Genuinely having to reconsider being an active user there now

        • TinyTimmyTokyoEnglish
          1·
          27 minutes ago

          I see you were one of the people whose comment got censored. I presume the censored comments were about the parody of the “pelican on a bike” animation on the OpenBSD 8.0 release page.

          So now people can’t even discuss criticism of LLMs on lobsters? Insane.