Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

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[-] corbin@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

This article motivating and introducing the ThunderKittens language has, as its first illustration, a crying ancap wojak complaining about people using GPUs. I thought it was a bit silly; surely that's not an actual ancap position?

On Lobsters, one of the resident cryptofascists from the Suckless project decided to be indistinguishable from the meme. He doesn't seem to comprehend that I'm mocking his lack of gumption; unlike him, I actually got off my ass when I was younger and wrote a couple GPU drivers for ATI/AMD hardware. It's difficult but rewarding, a concept foreign to fascists.

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

just want to share my article from this week. It's about products that account for their lack of usefulness with ease of use. Using the gpt-4oh as an example. https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

If the house doesn’t have a roof, don’t paint the walls.

i adore this line. because yeah, what i see the rest of the tech industry doing is either:

scrambling to erect their own, faster, better, cheaper roofless house
scrambling to sell furniture and utilities for the people who are definitely, inevitably going to move in
or making a ton of bank by selling resources to the first two groups

without even stopping to ask: why would anyone want to live here?

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

thanks! I think I began saying that when I moved from digital marketing agencies to startups around 2011

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

apparently oai has lifetime NDAs, via fasterthanlime[0]:

[0] - technically via friend who sent me a screenshot, but y'know

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

I can't imagine signing that - unless I was being paid a lot of money

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

For those wondering about the LessOnline event, here's the actual plan

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

"Whiteboards, whiteboards everywhere, yet not a thought to think!"

[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

My man spent 10 paragraphs failing to describe the intended vibe of the event he's organizing. This is what happens when you only read tweets and substacks, you completely lose the ability to describe the immaterial.

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[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

"cozy/spaciousness"

The Danes do not have a term for this, but if they did, it might be* hyggelig dimensioner*. A good name for an oversized couch at Ikea. Also, the Danes would not include "whiteboards everywhere" as part of cozy, warm, intellectual conversation, but hey.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

You need the whiteboards to schedule the orgies.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

From a comment thread:

Other ideas we chatted about having at LessOnline include maybe having some discussions about doing research inside and outside of academia, and also about learning from GlowFic writers how to write well collaboratively.

snerk

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

When randoms from /all wander into the vale of sneers:

https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://x.com/soniajoseph_/status/1791604177581310234?s=46&t=nT1XIOTx9ax3_3I0GXvgVQ

David, something is cooking behind the scenes here.

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[-] mii@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In case you didn’t know, Sam “the Man” Altman is deadass the coolest motherfucker around. With world leaders on speed dial and balls of steel, he’s here to kick ass and drink milkshakes.

Within a day of his ousting, Altman said he received 10 to 20 texts from presidents and prime ministers around the world. At the time, it felt "very normal," and he responded to the messages and thanked the leaders without feeling fazed.

Archive link.