Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting 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: 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.

  • @BlueMonday1984
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    93 months ago

    I dunno, I know that legally we don’t know which way this is going to go, because the ai people presumably have very good lawyers

    You’re not wrong on the AI corps having good lawyers, but I suspect those lawyers don’t have much to work with:

    If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on the trial being a bloodbath in the artists’ favour, and the resulting legal precedent being one which will likely kill generative AI as we know it.

    • @200fifty
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      73 months ago

      God, that would be the dream, huh? Absolutely crossing my fingers it all shakes out this way.

      • @imadabouzu
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        63 months ago

        Stranger things have happened. But in either case, we should commit to supporting every effort. If one punch doesn’t work take another. Death by a million cuts.