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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      How do people do this without dying of anxiety?

      BTW, that last comment on RetractionWatch was grim:

      I recently saw a presentation by a job candidate (a PhD with many years experience) who used figures that were clearly AI-generated. They werenā€™t as funny as this example or the giant rat penis, but certainly fictional and unreal. In and of itself, troubling enough. Worse was that my colleagues involved in the interview didnā€™t care when I pointed it out.

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        itā€™s easier if you are a shameless fraud without a shred of integrity

        This is also probably why MBAs like it

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      ai use case: you can pump out pseudoscience promoting fluff disguised as papers in predatory journals with less effort

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      Okay but this is about alkaline water so itā€™s garbage even without the genAI imagery.

      Itā€™s even by Wu et al., come on, low hanging fruit