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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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      Day 2686 of wondering how much Google can keep enshittifying everything it touches before people catch on.

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        I know you probably had no intention behind the number, but I just had to check. 2686 days ago was 12 June 2017. Pretty sure weā€™ve known about how google fumbles shit from way before then!

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          That was the day when the transformer paper was released that kicked off this whole LLM shitshow. So my intention was just a little nod towards that. ;)

          But yeah, the real number is probably quite a bit larger than that.

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            somone could make a command-line utility like sdate, but for blarney engines!

            what would be a good name for it, do you reckon? The first thing to pop into my head was shitdate but thatā€™s too close to the original and distro maintainers might get prissy about packages with swears in them

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              ASTx, autoplag standard time, but with tzdb entries localized as relative to each seminal paper/work

              for geolocale, I suggest coordinates such as null island, and wraparound/bounding-box corners (per multiple mainstream map projection)

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            According to an interview with the ceo of signal, when she worked at google the new ai wave shit was started by a paper in 2012, the authors of which were hired by google. So they saw the writing on the wall a bit sooner. When did they remove their dont be evil thing?

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      Thatā€™s amazing, I wish I had that kind of discipline to learn!

      I canā€™t decide whatā€™s worse: the fucking insulting tone that sounds like Iā€™m about to get a pamphlet about Joseph Smith or GameStop or some shit, or that the suggestions just make up opinions you donā€™t have and events that didnā€™t happen

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      But users like engagement! Which means seeing that the person wrote a thing and not reading the thing and making a human connection with someone who is, yā€™know, engaged in conversation.

      I know chatbots donā€™t track meaning, but Iā€™m pretty sure words still mean things.