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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • @BlueMonday1984
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    132 months ago

    Pulling out a pretty solid Tweet @ai_shame showed me:

    countersneer

    To pull out a point I’ve been hammering since Baldur Bjarnason talked about AI’s public image, I fully anticipate tech’s reputation cratering once the AI bubble bursts. Precisely how the public will view the tech industry at large in the aftermath I don’t know, but I’d put good money on them being broadly hostile to it.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn
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      92 months ago

      If you’re against unrestricted genAI then you’re also transphobic

      What. Wait has anyone claimed this? Because that’s absurd.

      • @mirrorwitch
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        112 months ago

        Dunno but why not, after Nanowrimo claimed that opposing “AI” means you’re classist and ableist. Why not also make objecting be sexist, racist etc. I’m going to be ahead of the curve by predicting that being against ChatGPT will also be a red flag that you’re a narcissistic sociopath manipulator because uhh because abused women need ChatGPT to communicate with their toxic exes /s

      • @Soyweiser
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        92 months ago

        Considering how much the AI hype feels like the cryptocurrency hype, during which every joke you made had already been seriously used to make a coin and been pumped and dumped already, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

      • Mii
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        82 months ago

        Oh, I wonder if they are referring to this shit, where somone came to r/lgbt fishing for compliments for the picture they’d asked Clippy for, and were completely clowned on by the entire community, which then led to another subreddit full of promptfans claiming that artists are transphobic because they didn’t like a generated image which had a trans flag in it.

        • David GerardMA
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          82 months ago

          remembering the NFT grifter who loudly asserted that if you weren’t into NFTs then you must be a transphobe

          (it was Fucking Thorne)

          • @sc_griffith
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            62 months ago

            fondly remembering replying to these types of people with screenshots from the wikipedia page on affinity fraud. they really hated that

        • Sailor Sega Saturn
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          72 months ago

          It warms the cockles of my heart that all across the web people find AI as annoying as I do.

    • @o7___o7
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      2 months ago

      I suspect it’ll land somewhere above “halitosis” but below “wearing black socks with crocs”