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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago

MAGA hates AI (well, Big Tech):

https://archive.ph/mBo9I

(Originally The Verge: MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech)

https://www.theverge.com/politics/773154/maga-tech-right-ai-natcon

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I get a bit of Schadenfreude from seeing everyone that cozies up to Trump eventually get turned against. The only people who have stuck around from the first term seem to be the Steves (Miller and Cheung)

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

i'd like to say "there is great fitna among republicans" but i can't feel like it'll blow over with thielbux recipient freaks just becoming more visible, and it's not like trump cares about common clay of the new west over his deals with billionaires either way

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago

gigabyte selling shovels (and not even just random shovels, specialty shovels that need a fixed type of mobo to use)

not gonna spend much effort on it now but if someone runs into an actual worthwhile review showing training performance numbers I'd be keen to see (my expectations are that it still does not do very much, and that runtime quality still underperforms relative to VC-subsidised platforms)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

I hadn’t seen this article yet about the hardware economics underpinning the LLM hype, but it’s really pretty good https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/articles/how-to-use-computing-power-faster

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