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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Introducing the Palantir shit sandwich combo: Get a cover up for the CEO tweaking out and start laying the groundwork for the AGI god's priest class absolutely free!

https://mashable.com/article/palantir-ceo-neurodivergent

TL;DR- Palantir CEO tweaks out during an interview. Definitely not any drugs guys, he's just neurodivergent! But the good, corporate approved kind. The kind that has extra special powers that make them good at AI. They're so good at AI, and AI is the future, so Palantir is starting a group of neurodivergents hand picked by the CEO (to lead humanity under their totally imminent new AI god). He totally wasn't tweaking out. He's never even heard of cocaine! Or billionaire designer drugs! Never ever!


Edit: To be clear, no hate against neurodivergence, or skepticism about it in general. I'm neurodivergent. And yeah, some types of neurodivergence tend to result in people predisposed to working in tech.

But if you're the fucking CEO of Palantir, surely you've been through training for public appearances. It's funnier that it didn't take, but this is clearly just an excuse.

I strongly feel that it's an attempt to start normalizing the elevation of certain people into positions of power based off vague characteristics they were born with.

Lemmy post that pointed me to this: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51704917

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I feel bad for the gullible ND people who spend time applying to this thinking they might have a chance and it isn't a high level coverup attempt.

Otoh, somebody should take some fun drugs and tape their interviews, see how it works out. Are there any Hunter S Tech journalists around?

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