Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026 - awful.systems
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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. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

Welcome to November, and 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.)___

    • ArchiteuthisEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      so uhh I take it thats not very good news for Nvidia

      Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

      Maybe they’ll make an example of him to show what happens if you run competing grifts without cutting the presidential family in.

      • geriksonEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        I think he’s out on a thin limb.

        If there’s one thing people who espouse “reasonable pro-AI” views push, is that the US has to go ahead building chatbots because otherwise the Chinese will beat us.

        In the current point in time, AI is under perceived attack by the Democrats (I doubt they’ll go against the lobbyists but w/e) and the US Right has realized that no-one really likes Big Tech - they’re convenient scapegoats for all sorts of things. Sure they want billionaires in charge but people like Sam Altman aren’t really their kinds of people.

        Throwing the book at Jensen would help both sides.

        • samvinesEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          Would be amazing if Trump’s swan song was to scapegoat the CEOs who have been showering him in golden busts and laughing at his jokes for the last 2-3 years.

          • geriksonEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            The man has no concept of loyalty owed, only loyalty received.

      • lurkerEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

        Imo I can see both outcomes: Trump and Nvidia pulling strings and bending the rules to keep Huang in for the sake of the markets/protecting Trump’s precious ‘SI’ companies, and Trump getting pissed because of selling to China/GOP using him as a scapegoat and having him forcefully resign

      • ArchiteuthisEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        yc commenter:

        I can see his remorse and genuine care for his family which makes me feel a bit sad.

        I can barely imagine extending such good will to a family member if they willingly cheated, let alone a trillion dollar company CEO I’ve never met.

        Parasocial tendencies are weird.