Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • @nfultz
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    97 months ago

    https://less.online/ - they couldn’t be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically

    • @V0ldek
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      97 months ago

      “A Festival of Writers Who are Wrong on the Internet”

      How is it possible to be so thoroughly immune to self-reflection.

    • @carlitoscohones
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      57 months ago

      Why is Patrick McKenzie attending this, I wonder?

    • @Amoeba_Girl
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      47 months ago

      Seeing Cremieux Recueil will be there, does anyone know who’s behind it, what’s the deal with it, etc? I’m always seeing it pop up on these freaks’ timelines and I imagine it’s eugenics shit but I can never be bothered to dig enough to find the really incriminating stuff. It’s well creepy though.

    • @Soyweiser
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      7 months ago

      That ‘only show authors confirmed coming’ button. Wtf lol.

      • @gerikson
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        77 months ago

        Surprised and a bit disappointed to see patio11 attending. Gwern isn’t though, lol.

        • @slopjockey
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          47 months ago

          I’m a bit surprised to see his name. I read “Seeing like a bank” and snippets of a few other blogposts, he didn’t come off as a ghoul

          • David GerardOPMA
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            36 months ago

            it’ll be interesting to see his reaction to the room full of race scientists. I wonder how well they can hide their power level.

            • @froztbyte
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              36 months ago

              suspicion: this is a recruitment event, and a lot of people might try to be on their best obfuscatory behaviour

          • @froztbyte
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            16 months ago

            I have my own thoughts on the guy, but I figured I’d send a mail and ask about his reasons. let’s see I guess

      • @mlen
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        57 months ago

        A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.

        • @Soyweiser
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          47 months ago

          Wait what she is also attending? Wait, no of course she is, and also lol.

      • flere-imsaho
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        46 months ago

        preview:

        reality:

        “how to inflate your event by pretending there’s more to it” (tbh i wouldn’t mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)

        • @Soyweiser
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          36 months ago

          Yeah that was exactly what I meant amazing bullshit

        • @gerikson
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          36 months ago

          ESR hasn’t blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.

          • David GerardOPMA
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            36 months ago

            It got a malware infection and nobody bothered fixing it. By the end its commenters were enjoying long threads entirely composed of dogwhistles.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          6 months ago

          Wildbow: “you know the Empire 88 and the biotinkers were bad guys in Worm right”

    • @slopjockey
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      37 months ago

      Wtf? It’s like they made a sex offenders list, just nothing but libertarians and racists