Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024 - eviltoast

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      6 months ago

      I mentioned this in the last weekly thread, but check out the 5th citation in their example paper (the one that says nothing in particular about type 2 diabetes)

      T. Schnurr, Hermina Jakupovi, Germn D. Carrasquilla, L. ngquist, N. Grarup, T. Srensen, A. Tjnneland, K. Overvad, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, and T. Kilpelinen. Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study. Diabetologia, 63:1324ā€“1332, 2020.

      I left a HN comment that they got the names wrong for Hermina Jakupović, GermĆ”n D Carrasquilla, Lars Ƅngquist, Thorkild SĆørensen, Anne TjĆønneland, and Tuomas O KilpelƤinen. They thanked me for my ā€œthoroughā€ review (read: I glanced over it for giggles at like 2 AM).

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      6 months ago

      All of AI is just this. A boring personā€™s idea of creativity. A managerā€™s idea of programming. A stupid personā€™s idea of science.