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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

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    Orange site mods retitled a post about a16z funding AI slop farms to remove the a16z part.

    The mod tried to pretend the reason was that the title was just too damn long and clickbaity. His new title was 1 character shorter than the original.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305113

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      I don’t love the title but it’s the best I could come up with to fit within the 80 character limit.

      A half dozen people might still be reading hackernews on punchcards so they ha-

      ve no choice but to argue about how to shorten “long” titles every day.

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        80 character limit

        Lot of roguelike development in the past was still obsessed with that. Was a bit amusing, think even they have dropped this now.

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        I went down a punch-card history rabbit hole today on the empirical software engineering discord. TIL:

        We have been living in a world 10 columns too short. Think of all the HN headlines we could have had instead…

        I imagine it was like VHS vs Beta only with pocket protectors.

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        Good to know that Orange Website is being considerate of us VT220 users. I knew there was a reason why mine has the amber phosphorus.