Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025 - awful.systems
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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. (Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this [https://awful.systems/post/1162442], and happy new year in advance.)

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.

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

  • froztbyteEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    please excuse me while I infinitely recursively scream into the void

    Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications

    (this shit has been getting airtime at a couple of different networking conferences, and it’s all as ridiculous and pointless as you’d blindly guess)

    • V0ldekEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It still has to go through peer review, so I fully expect one (1) accepted paper with the title “Large Generative AI Models in Telecommunications - What? No. Why? No!”

      Hit me up if you want to collaborate on one lol

        • V0ldekEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I love the leaves and gold meme and I use it constantly even though quite literally no one ever understands it, so, thank you, now I know there’s two of us.

      • blakestaceyAEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Here’s a start:

        Given their enormous environmental cost and their foundation upon exploited labor, justifying the use of Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications is an uphill task. Since their output is, in the technical sense of the term, bullshit, climbing that hill has no merit.

        • V0ldekEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Since their output is, in the technical sense of the term, bullshit [1],

          == References

          [1] Frankfurt H. On Bullshit. Raritan Quarterly Review 1986; 6:81-100.

          Let’s start collecting a bibliography

      • froztbyteEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        eyelid twitching

        sure, we barely understand all applicable bio systems, let’s have some shitty model dream up answers on how things work! it’ll go great

        Much as a chatbot can discern style and perhaps even meaning from huge volumes of written language,

        going to have to add this author to the List, aren’t I

          • froztbyteEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            gonna add a whole new weight to “lying synthesis machines” :|