(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.)
The funniest part of Jensengate is seeing all the techbros being really sad and petitioning to restore Jensen to his rightful position, thinking that there is some analogy to Sam Altman. They seem to not realize that the reason Saltman was fired was because the board didn’t like his stupid face. Meanwhile, Jensen has committed three affairs, two with employees, and somehow that is the less important thing, considering he smuggled tens of billions of dollars of chips illegally into China. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in jail. If Jensen thought he had a reasonable chance of surviving, why would he resign and start whining like a teenager?
They even built a vibe coded petition website with zero user validation whatsoever: