Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.

(December’s finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    i am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday

    and of course Anil Dash signed it

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      The people who build these products aren’t bad or evil.

      No, I’m pretty sure that a lot of them just are bad and evil.

      With the emergence of artificial intelligence, we stand at a crossroads. This technology holds genuine promise.

      [citation needed]

      [to a source that’s not laundered slop, ya dingbats]

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        i don’t know if they are unusually evil, but they sure are greedy

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        to a source that’s not laundered slop, ya dingbats

        Ha thats easy. Read Singularity Sky by Charles Stross see all the wonders the festival brings.