Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th November 2026 - awful.systems
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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.)___

(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)

Anyways, 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.)

  • lagrangeinterpolatorEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Outlook was down for an entire day yesterday, which affected me since my school email uses it. I don’t remember any Outlook outage this bad before, and from what I’ve heard, Microsoft was cosplaying as a headless chicken in their attempts to fix it. Maybe getting rid of 60,000 employees to embrace the magic of AI isn’t working out so well.

    Meanwhile I saw this AI panic post on Linkedin (warning: psychic damage). Apparently all the doomers are vindicated and all the critics are completely discredited because of … you guessed it, math problems! You see, one mathematician was very sad in an interview! (Let’s also ignore the many nuanced statements like this that mathematicians have made about their own field.)

    But somehow he hasn’t noticed AI affecting anything he actually understands. Well, you see, that’s because in the real world, the magic of AI does need to wait a few years before the puny humans understand how to wield its power (but of course the doomsday is coming on schedule in a few years). The argument sounds nice until you look at of software, where there should be no physical obstacles for adopting AI. Now, coding has been solved by AI on the planet of Earth Prime where he lives, where OpenAI and Anthropic have long monopolized every software market with products of much higher quality and reliability than what came before. Unfortunately, I live on Earth, where I have seen two major vibe-coding failures in the last two days (the Outlook outage and the Humble Store rewrite).