Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? 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.

  • @froztbyte
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    105 months ago

    bit of a combo-sneer this morning

    CNBC put out an article uncritically repeating yet another round of lieboy pulling the exact same shit. I don’t recognize the authors immediately, not sure if they’re typical bootlickers or not

    openai is going in hard, hiring ex-NSA person that was appointed by the walking talk racist mop (via dan gillmor). for the … safety role! ah yes, I’m sure we’ll all be so very surprised by this attempt consolidation of power.

    • David GerardMA
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      85 months ago

      to their credit, they did manage to get past the editor:

      This is all far-out stuff even for Musk, who is notorious for making ambitious promises to investors and customers that don’t pan out — from developing software that can turn an existing Tesla into a self-driving vehicle with an upload, to EV battery swapping stations.

      • @froztbyte
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        95 months ago

        yeah, fair call on that. I just live in hope that we can get to a point where “lying fucker with history of failures and grandiose statements has made another ridiculous grandiose statement probably composed of lies” can be the actual type of headline, instead of this constant simping bullshit

        • @V0ldek
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          105 months ago

          Or just, you know, not write a headline on that in the first place? Who the fuck is in a dire need to know the last stupid thing a pathological liar said?

          • David GerardMA
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            85 months ago

            publishers who demand clicks