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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      13 hours ago

      lmao incredible

      Then thereā€™s BenevolentAI. I first wrote about them in 2018, as the company stated that it had ā€œcreated a bioscience machine brain, purpose-built to discover new medicines and cures for disease.ā€ Howā€™s the machine brain doing these days? Well, the companyā€™s lead program failed in the clinic last year, and in April announced major layoffs.

      just who buys this shit? this reads like refined crypto nonsense

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        12 hours ago

        People who donā€™t get much tech/overdose on hype and heard of alphafold. Imagine how much worse things could be now after the Nobel.

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          10 hours ago

          i mean how many these people are out there that also have money of this kind, other than softbank i mean

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            Given the past several decades of trickle-up economics, I think we havenā€™t seen anything close to the bottom of the well of basically-idle capital seeking unrealistic returns.

            Iā€™d go so far as to say that the current crop of bubbles possibly represents the greatest downards wealth transfer (albeit from billionaires to millionaires rather than, yā€™know, working people) since the second world war, but I havenā€™t done anything near the amount of research necessary for that to be more than exciting rhetoric.