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.

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    Riffing on this fun subthread:

    • Will AI invent the Philosopher’s Stone?
    • Can AI duck the Zuck?
    • WIll AI divide by zero?
    • Can AI give you diarrhea?
    • Will AI make “fetch” happen?
    • Will AI have a second helping?
    • Does AI unlock the secret to making the Moon happy again?
    • Can AI stop eating after only one marshmallow?
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      You know, I feel like it’s only a matter of time before someone in the overlapping griftoverse tries their hand at immanentizing the eschaton by creating their own second coming - the MessAIah.

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        • Will AI die for our sins?
        • Will AI break the Wheel?
        • WIll AI serve the Antichrist?
        • Will AI accept acausal trade bribes from Freeman Dyson so that he was right after all?
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          I’d much rather have a technology that allows some specific people to keep their shit inside, without spilling it for all of us to see. @TheBigYud