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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    151 month ago

    Veering semi-OT: the guy behind the godawful Windows 11 GUI has revealed himself:

    Looking at his Twitter profile, its clear he’s a general dumpster fire of a human being - most of his feed’s just him retweeting AI garbage or fash garbage.

    • @o7___o7
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      161 month ago

      It’s not healthy for me to have my biases confirmed like this.

      • @antifuchs
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        91 month ago

        But it lets you adjust your priors so pleasantly!

        • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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          121 month ago

          It also means you can update your priors about your own biases predictive instincts being good, allowing you to be more confident in literally everything you’ve ever believed or thought about for half a second. Superpredictors unite!

    • ebu
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      131 month ago

      this one is a joke, i think. he is definitely on the fashy bullshit though

      • @V0ldek
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        71 month ago

        “I try not to let [performance] considerations get in the way

        You could show me this without any context whatsoever and my first thought would’ve been “did a React dev say that”