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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 so 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. Apologies for not getting the previous one up - my old laptop died)

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[-] lurker@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Fyi, I blocked him a while back. Didnt like his whole 'im the reasonable centrist' bit while making blocklists of anti ai people.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

Turns out the centrist subscribes to transhumanism (hipster edition)

the overtone window can't be that fucked, can it?

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah, so he is part of the broader eugenics community, what a surprise.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago

gyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you

[-] maol@awful.systems 11 points 20 hours ago

"the overtone window" would be a good name for the amount of racist dogwhistling that's acceptable in the mainstream media

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 21 hours ago

Ah, "Kurzweilian h+," there's his marketing tagline. Too bad importing Kurzweil also brings in all his bullshit extrapolation about exponential curves that all the other weird shit is based on. You're never going to shout down the hyperbolic lunatics by adopting the core thesis of their hyperbole.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)
[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

Ooh cryonics, classy.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, at best, "Kurzweilian h+" will be pseudoscientific guff. I suppose that keeping the lower strata of intellectually bad elements while discarding the worst of the social ones is progress, but, I mean, it's kind of like saying you're into your fad diet and LLM-generated supplement regimen and then looking over at RFK and saying "but that's totally different!".

I've lost it now, but somewhere in the replies to one of those threads was a person complaining that SneerClub was too much like beating up on nerds in high school. To which I say, first, here's my blueberry bread recipe, and a nice photo of a winter sunrise, and my Star Trek fanfiction. We all friendly now? Good. Then let me suggest, cordially, that if you are continuing to think of social dynamics in terms of high-school hierarchies and shitty '80s movies well into adulthood, that is a you problem. If I can stop living as the gender I had in high school, you can stop letting your membership in a granfalloon lead you by the nose.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

in the same vein as jorjor wel, rakers wile

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 22 hours ago

"e/acc is a troll ideology for upsetting EA people and scamming pmarca"

and "Kurzweilian h+" is just '90s nostalgia for people too proud to shop at Hot Topic

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Just another centrist taking the long way around to fascism

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