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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

Ed Zitron radicalizes NPR host Brooke Gladstone in real time on the midweek episode of "On the Media"

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media

[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

After fondling ChatGPT to generate naughty things, man has meltdown when he learns no one cares.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/time-bandit-chatgpt-jailbreak-bypasses-safeguards-on-sensitive-topics/

Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death.

I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 hours ago

I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be ... ChiCom!

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 23 minutes ago

Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent Chinese AI?

[-] aninjury2all@awful.systems 6 points 6 hours ago

No less than Mr Acausal Robot God casually dismissing the lives of +1B humans

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 23 minutes ago

"The world is finite and kids are infinite, especially African kids." Jfc. Anyway goes to show just how white supremacist the whole "save the children" idea is.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

found while giving my feed a moment of scroll while making coffee after too many 3am worknights, I saw this response to the substack guy giving themselves a pat on the back again for helping the nazis

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 12 points 20 hours ago

Terrible news: the worst person I know just made a banger post.

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 20 points 1 day ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

Screenshot of an insta post of a screenshot of a tweet

Tweet:

I can’t believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Neo-Nazi nutcase having a normal one.

It's so great that this isn't falsifiable in the sense that doomers can keep saying, well "once the model is epsilon smarter, then you'll be sorry!", but back in the real world: the model has been downloaded 10 million times at this point. Somehow, the diamanoid bacteria has not killed us all yet. So yes, we have found out the Yud was wrong. The basilisk is haunting my enemies, and she never misses.

Bonus sneer: "we are going to find out if Yud was right" Hey fuckhead, he suggested nuking data centers to prevent models better than GPT4 from spreading. R1 is better than GPT4, and it doesn't require a data center to run so if we had acted on Yud's geopolitical plans for nuclear holocaust, billions would have been for incinerated for absolutely NO REASON. How do you not look at this shit and go, yeah maybe don't listen to this bozo? I've been wrong before, but god damn, dawg, I've never been starvingInRadioactiveCratersWrong.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

The advanced sinophobia where the Chinese are so much better at everything than the west that even when they make better and cheaper bullshit machines than the Americans do and hand them out for free, it has apocalyptic consequences.

[-] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

It's wild that Yudkowsky saw a binary choice of "nuclear holocaust" and "superintelligence" and chose "nuclear holocaust" in the first place.

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

Like, even if I believed in FOOM, I'll take my chances with the stupid sexy basilisk 🐍 over radiation burns and it's not even fucking close.

I don't want to say with absolute confidence that there's no scenario I can imagine to which a nuclear apocalypse would be preferable (the real kind, not the Fallout kind). But I have yet to hear one.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

The upcoming firestorms of climate change, while patrolling the Mohave desert almost make you wish for nuclear winter. Ow wait not like fallout you said

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 23 hours ago

nuclear winter is not a thing that can possibly happen, from what i understand

sagan et al overstated amount of soot put in upper atmosphere over 10x, for no particular reason other than trying to make a point

notice how no one talked about it after desert storm? oilfield fires provided negative evidence

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 19 hours ago

They still do nuclear war climate modelling. Its still bad.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago

Another dream shattered. Not sure if the oilfield fires were big enough. Volcanoes can cause some cooling right? pokes old yeller

[-] rook@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago

We’ve had recent eruptions in all be big categories, so we’re not due another one for a while and trying to cheat by setting one off early won’t allow sufficient pressure for a proper bang.

Not that I want to discourage you, but don’t be sad if you try for a year without summer and get a couple of weeks without flights instead.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 21 hours ago

yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m not going to link Andy Ngo but random rationalist transwomen are being accused of terror sympathy…and Aella is doing this ‘leopards ate my face’ dance.

edit: it was @jessi_cata who tipped Ngo off of all people.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 20 hours ago

tbh I don't understand this post at all. aella isn't trans so why would she be a target for leopards? I must be misinterpreting

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

thats just me trying to use an unfamiliar meme (and just trying to narrate what I'm seeing on twitter that maybe isn't worth a link). she was actually complaining that people had gone to Ngo.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 8 points 17 hours ago

oh I see! she's annoyed about a different gang of fascists flexing on hers

Goddammit why can't the murder cult story just stay morbidly fascinating? Now I've got to worry about implications and how the worst people are gonna use this as ammo.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Ok you brought aella up so now I can post this:

Heard this song for the first time the other day and it reminded me of aella.

side note: what’s a good way to post links to music that isn’t youtube?

[-] cornflake@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago
[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago

oh this is brilliant, I’ve been looking for something like this

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

i don't think it's the first time i see jessicata acting like a total piece of shit in her completely emotionless way and it's incredibly creepy. she doesn't even seem to be aware of the harm she can cause.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

I was kinda picking up on that ugh.

Ngo is going on Newsmax tonight to do his thing in front of the masses.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you can get banned on facebook now for linking to distrowatch https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked and from distrowatch https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

but it's not as bad as you think, it's slightly worse. it's not only distrowatch and linux groups got banned too

[-] rook@awful.systems 15 points 2 days ago

And on a less downbeat and significantly more puerile note, Dan Fixes Coin Ops makes a nice analogy for companies integrating ai into their product.

https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/112847573063473767

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago

that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be

~~dicks in mousetraps~~ I MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cards

I do actually have a mechanism for using the sharp edges of NVidia cards for ~~dick~~ mouse trapping purposes. And we could - hypothetically - use the extraneous power inputs to mine Bitcoin or something, maximizing efficiency!

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