Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025 - awful.systems
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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.)

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.)

  • nightsky@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Warning: you might regret reading this screenshot of elno posting a screenshot. (cw: chatbots in sexual context)

    oh noooo no no no

    …but that brings me back to questions about “what does interaction with LLM chatbots do to human brains”.

    EDIT: as pointed out by Soyweiser below, the lower reply in the screenshot is probably satire.

          • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Yeah I never trusted them, from the vibes I’ve got they’re definitely buying into all sorts of conspiracy bullshit. I don’t think the tweet is in good faith obviously, but I associate this sort of socalled “schizoposting” with cryptofascists.

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
              2·
              1 hour ago

              Yeah lot of people are fully into they are just trolling. But I have seen that go bad so often (chapo, redscare, vaush, for a few obvious examples) im very much not trusting them to not turn out to be bad. Esp when it is their ‘job’ to do this. Quite easy to throw a few minorities under the bus for clout. And actively making people crazier/spreading misinformation like this is not great imho.

              (E: that I could easily create a list of accounts who I think fall on this spectrum, who still have a lot of followers also isnt great).

    • antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Ah yes, three of the worst people alive today talking about how objects are indistinguishable from women.

    • misterbngo@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      During my expirementation with some of these self hosted llms, I was attempting some jailbreaks and other things and thought would this be any good at ERP?

      Only if youve never been with another human being.