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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    AI Maxers Thrilled with Trumpā€™s Vice President Pick JD Vance

    This isnā€™t really too interesting yet; but something to keep an eye on. As things like blockchain and AI alignment becomes weirdly political itā€™s likely that sneering will get unpleasantly close to politics at times. And yet sneer we must.

    Other self-titled techno-optimists highlighted Vanceā€™s ties to venture capital, Thiel, and Andreessen, saying the ā€œGray Tribe [is] in control.ā€ Gray Tribe is a reference to a term originating from Scott Alexanderā€™s Slate Star Codex blog, which points to a group that is neither red (Republican) or Blue (Democrat), but a libertarian, tech savvy alternative.

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      I really should write more about technofascism while I still have electricity, clean water, a relatively unfractured global information network, and there arenā€™t too many gunshots outside

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          I have an extremely rough draft up on our writing community MoreWrite: here it is. it very much deserves to be restructured and expanded; I wrote this first draft in a hurry, and since then Iā€™ve both gotten some very solid recommendations for prior work in the area to read and cite from @dgerard@awful.systems and Iā€™ve experienced more instances where technofascist methods were used to take control over open source projects away from their communities.

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              nah all good! our writing community isnā€™t meant to be containment, itā€™s just a different category with different expectations (mainly that feedback should be constructive, since MoreWrite is for writers posting their own work)

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      But but, tracingwood told us that claiming NRx is close to Rationalism is a lie made up by the evil David G.

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      God damn, I donā€™t think Iā€™ve read an article with that many name drops in a while. Itā€™s like a Marvel film but with techfash assholes.

      ā€œJD Vance is pro-OSS [open source] AI,ā€ Verdon tweeted. ā€œWe are so unfathomably back.ā€

      Itā€™s actually impressive how this guy is able to make me despise him even more every single time he opens his mouth.