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)

  • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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    This feels like quackery but I can’t find a goal…

    But if they both hold up to scrutiny, this is perhaps the first time scientific evidence supporting this theory has been produced – as explored in my recent book.

    There it is.

    Edit: oh God it’s worse than I thought

    The web design almost makes me nostalgic for geocities fan pages. The citations that include himself ~10 times and the greatest hits of the last 50 years of physics, biology, and computer science, and Baudrillard of course. The journal of which this author is the lead editor and which includes the phrase “information as the fifth state of matter” in the scope description.

    Oh God the deeper I dig the weirder it gets. Trying to confirm whether the Information Physics Institute is legit at all and found their list of members, one of whom listed their relevant expertise as “Writer, Roleplayer, Singer, Actor, Gamer”. Another lists “Hyperspace and machine elves”. One very honestly simply says “N/A”

    I am not making this up.

    The Gmail address also lends the whole thing an air of authority. Like, you’ve already paid for the domain, guys.

    • db0
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      211 month ago

      OK this membe list experience is just 👨‍🍳😗👌

      • Psychonaut
      • Practitioner of Yoga
      • Quantum, Consciousness, Christian Theology, Creativity

      Perfect. No notes.

      • @carlitoscohones
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        I haven’t seen qualifications this relevant and high-quality since “architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.”

      • @froztbyte
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        the terrible tryfecta

        • @Soyweiser
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          51 month ago

          Still a bit sad we are not doing nano anymore.

            • @Soyweiser
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              41 month ago

              But things being real doesn’t stop the cranks. See quantum.

              • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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                41 month ago

                Quantum superpredicting machines are not real, and that’s what they’re about. Nano- has lots of uninteresting bs like ultraefficient fluorescent things, but nanomachines are not and that was interesting to them (until they got bored)

          • @istewart
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            61 month ago

            Wait for AI and Crypto 2.0 to burn out, we’ll get there

            • Coriza
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              51 month ago

              I had a flash of a vision of tomorrow, it is Nano crypto AI

            • @Soyweiser
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              51 month ago

              Sadly it seems the next one is gonna be Quantum.

    • @Soyweiser
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      141 month ago

      Finally computer science is a real field, there are cranks! Suck it physics and mathematics, we are a real boy now!

    • @hrrrngh
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      111 month ago

      I love the word cloud on the side. What is 6G doing there

      • @istewart
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        61 month ago

        6G nanometer-wave, gently caressing your mitochondria thanks to the power of antiferromagnets and BORIS:

    • @istewart
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      Has this person turned up shilling their book on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory yet? If not, I think it’s a lock for 2025