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.)

  • @BlueMonday1984OP
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    162 months ago

    Breaking news from 404 Media: the Repubs introduced a new bill in an attempt to ban AI from being regulated:

    “…no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,” says the text of the bill introduced Sunday night by Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The text of the bill will be considered by the House at the budget reconciliation markup on May 13.

    If this goes through, its full speed ahead on slop.

    • @blakestaceyA
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      172 months ago

      The pro-child-porn caucus.

    • @gerikson
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      132 months ago

      Expect the “AI safety” weenuses to have a giant freakout too.

      • @aninjury2all
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        122 months ago

        What’s the over-under on how many of them voted for Trump lol

        • @scruiser
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          112 months ago

          Given the libertarian fixation, probably a solid percentage of them. And even the ones that didn’t vote for Trump often push or at least support various mixes of “grey-tribe”, “politics is spiders”, “center left”, etc. kind of libertarian centrist thinking where they either avoided “political” discussion on lesswrong or the EA forums (and implicitly accepted libertarian assumptions without argument) or they encouraged “reaching across the aisle” or “avoiding polarized discourse” or otherwise normalized Trump and the alt-right.

          Like looking at Scott’s recent posts on ACX, he is absolutely refusing responsibility for his role in the alt-right pipeline with every excuse he can pull out of his ass.

          Of course, the heretics who have gone full e/acc absolutely love these sorts of “policy” choices, so this actually makes them more in favor of Trump.

        • @Soyweiser
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          92 months ago

          I have not kept up but Scott did write an anti trump article again before the election. So we really cant blame them /s

          • @istewart
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            92 months ago

            Reminds me of how Scott Adams hedged in 2016 with all sorts of disclaimers that he wasn’t really a Trump supporter, he was just impressed by a “master persuader.” Now look at the guy.

            • @Soyweiser
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              92 months ago

              His blog was wild. Remains sad that the first part of the ‘DANGER DO NOT READ!!! I will hypnotize you into having the best orgasms of your life’ blog series was not properly archived.

      • @BlueMonday1984OP
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        112 months ago

        The Repubs more-or-less renamed themselves Team Skynet with this open attempt to maximise AI’s harms, I absolutely think they’re McFucking Losing It™ right now.

    • Nicole Parsons
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      32 months ago

      @BlueMonday1984

      Its not a coincidence that the fossil fuel industry wants that same immunity. The fossil fuel industry funds AI initiatives.

      The gun lobby pioneered that regulatory capture.

      https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-taking-a-page-from-gun-manufacturers-immunity-playbook/

      There’s estimates on the damages caused by the fossil fuel industry.

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossil-fuel-companies-emissions-climate-damage-study/

      Wonder what the damage costs for AI will be? Perpetual religious wars? World war with AI drones?
      https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-heads-uae-it-hopes-advance-ai-ambitions-2025-05-15/

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/trump-artificial-intelligence-uae

      https://www.arabnews.com/node/2600787/amp