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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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      “We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life”

      This quote is just… something.

      Is the plan to literally create 8 billion podcasts in the near future? This company doesn’t think that might be a tad excessive?

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        Tech take from the near future: Podcast life begins at conception i.e. the instant one thinks the inside thoughts should be outside

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          new extreme strain of catholicism: life begins at conceptualization

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            Uh I think we are very quickly and dangerously approaching Dawkinsian Meme Theory

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              RAIDEN!

              Ed: I’m sure there’s an MGS2 quote I can’t think of that would make this actually funny, but here we are.

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          black mirror enhancement: because the algorithms involved may present multiple likely fits to any given input, each output is also considered a conception and given due protection (even if not used)

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        The spectre of Marx nods in approval