Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024 - 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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” 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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
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    ā€˜They wish this technology didnā€™t existā€™: Perplexity responds to News Corpā€™s lawsuit

    ā€œThere are around three dozen lawsuits by media companies against generative AI tools. The common theme betrayed by those complaints collectively is that they wish this technology didnā€™t exist,ā€ said the Perplexity team in the blog. ā€œThey prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll.ā€

    I wish the AI bros at Perplexity and elsewhere a very cope and fucking seethe.

    Okay, quick personal sidenote:

    With how much misinformation, manipulation, outright theft and other horrific shit this AI bubble has caused, I suspect weā€™re gonna see some attempts at an outright ban on AI. How successful theyā€™re gonna be, I donā€™t know, but at the bare minimum itā€™ll enjoy some popularity on the political fringe.

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      they wish this technology didnā€™t exist

      this is supposed to be invalidating, but likeā€¦ yes? whatā€™s wrong with that?

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      They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll.

      Yea, down with corporate IP trolls, information gatekeepers and idea landlords! Anyway, what was Perplexityā€™s business model again?

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      Burglars telling homeowners to cope and seethe when questioned about their possession of crowbars at time of arrest.