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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.)

(OT: 🎶 Do you remember...)

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[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago

Because somebody brought up the idea of “recursive self-improvement”, a sneer bubbles to the top: The same people already certain they're accurately evaluating human talent via job interviews and performance reviews are talking about recursive “improvement”. That might tell one something.

[-] lurker@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago

Apparently on the WSJ podcast they started claiming that they’ve achieved RSI

wonder why they said that on a podcast and not on a peer reviewed paper…

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

One more: I gotta check with my physical therapist if her job is safe now that RSI is being taken over by AI

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 7 hours ago

clearly they meant RSI as in repetitive strain injury, from jerking each other off so much

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 7 hours ago

Jokes on them, I’ve developed chronic RSI for free, decades ago

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