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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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.

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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

If I ever get the urge to start a website for creatives to sell their media, please slap me in the face and remind me it will absolutely not be worth it.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

This was discussed last week but I looked at the comments and noticed someone in the comments getting slammed for... checks notes... noting that Eliezer wasn't clear on what research paper he was actually responding to (multiple other comments are kind of confused, because they assume he means one paper then other comments correct them that he obviously meant another). The commenter of course edits to back-peddle.

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

New Blood in the Machine about GPT-5's dumpster fire launch: GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"usecase" is a cursed term. It's an inverted fnord that lets the reader know that whatever follows can be safely ignored.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Palantir's public relations team explains how it helped America win the Global War on Terror

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894910

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

New piece from Brian Merchant, about the growing power the AI bubble's granted Microsoft, Google, and Amazon: The AI boom is fueling a land grab for Big Cloud

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