Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 - eviltoast

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 ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ 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.)

  • gerikson@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    LW:

    Please consider minimizing direct use of AI chatbots (and other text-based AI) in the near-term future, if you can. The reason is very simple: your sanity may be at stake.

    Perfect. No notes.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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      2 days ago

      the comments are wild ā€œyes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concernā€

    • blakestacey@awful.systems
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      3 days ago

      The top comment begins thusly:

      I think you make a reasonably compelling case, but when I think about the practicality of this in my own life it’s pretty hard to imagine not spending any time talking to chatbots. ChatGPT, Claude and others are extremely useful.

      I didn’t think it was possible, but the perfection continues! Still, no notes!

      • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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        3 days ago

        LW’er: ā€œsorry can you excuse me for a moment? I’m having a bad day, somebody gave me a stack of papers with a paperclip in itā€

        (I do now worry if there are actual LWers who for real gave themselves ptsd like reactions from seeing paperclips. Like the woman who mistook ā€˜free parking’ for ā€˜free palestine’ a couple of years back).