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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that Iāve been owned in a way I canāt even explain to my closest friends.
The third worst part is the fact that Iāve been owned in a way I canāt even explain to my closest friends.
Oh god, this so much. Well, third worst for me personally, as a non-American white guy. I suppose Palestinians, Ukrainians, and marginalized groups in the US might have a few issues theyād rank higher.
Fuck it, off-the-cuff prediction: I expect resistance to Silicon Valley is gonna turn violent during Trumpās term.
mozilla is having another wee purge on the foundation side
this shit reads exactly like corporate raider playbook
āOur mission at Mozilla is more high-stakes than ever,ā wrote Syed in an email to staff, a copy of which was shared with TechCrunch. āWe find ourselves in a relentless onslaught of change in the technology (and broader) world, and the idea of putting people before profit feels increasingly radical.ā
āwhich is why we donātā
Its times like these which make me happy I switched to Librewolf.
last I saw that wasnāt really well-insulated from upstreamās bullshit
one of the recent things moz pulled ended up enabled in librewolf on basically the same day/timeline
re: election results. unfortunately iām not surprised or even disappointed by now. it makes me feel sad for my 2015 self and her naivete. she didnāt understand what a disgusting and evil culture she lived in
Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° Š£ŠŗŃŠ°ŃŠ½Ń. The world has failed you.
I donāt have too much coherent to say right now
fuck the fascists for what theyāve done and what they intend to do
fuck the neoliberals for doing their best to convince marginalized people that they shouldnāt defend themselves against a terrible fate
fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap theyāre taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths
shitās about to get very hard and very weird and I canāt stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life
I canāt stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life
strong agree
minor upside: itās going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off
fucking fuck this sucks
minor upside: itās going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off
correct. keep receipts.
what a surprise, the thread all the leftist shitposters on mastodon boosted about how youāre a class traitor if you donāt vote for the Green Party (who I donāt buy as socialist) or āany other socialist partyā (fucking who??? am I supposed to write āsocialismā on my ballot in crayon???) conveniently went missing
anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonās a shooting gallery tonight
i do love how the āanti-imperialistā protest vote against harris was a choice between like three or four putin apologists. the state of the US left is really fucked up and i donāt want to look at it ever again.
i bet the self-described antiimperialists going all for Southern Lebanon Parking Lot 2024 feel real smug right now
Didnāt the Green Party woman also just go āIām pro Israelā the day for the election or so? Which I think is one of the reason she might have picked up a few moves (the idea she might be more pro gaza I mean).
anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonās a shooting gallery tonight
Iāve intentionally been avoiding feeds the last few days because I just do not have the headspace for it, but I quickly checked on shit now
and
fuck
Yeah this is fucked up. I feel so bad for everybody (esp the Americans, but this will hurt the world). Shit this prob means I should start looking into seriously helping out locally when all this explodes into more international shit. (Which imho is the best you can do anyway, do things locally, build a bit of a support network for your community).
(Note Iām not American, but I think this will end badly, just the fucker stepping out of the paris accord for example, and all the weird blowhard fascists this will make feel emboldened to do more politics locally).
E: I really hope the people who go āthis is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are countedā are correct and not on hopeium.
i think they indeed are on hopium/copium
I canāt tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).
both by electoral college and by popular vote trump has advantage, and worse than that house and senate are republican now
Yeah, turns out this is the bad place.
Not surprised, still very disappointed, I feel sick.
are you US-based? very sorry, take care
yes, i am. iāve been plotting to get out for years but iāve been too depressed since my partner died to make any progress tbh. iāve no idea what to do
ugh that sucks, Iām sorry
lol
Bitcoin peaks as Trump is elected
(Article encrypted in Finnish, see spoiler for translation)
lightly fixed machine translation
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin climbed to a new high record on Wednesday as Republican Donald Trump seemed to be taking the lead in the US presidential election. Bitcoin went up by almost $6,000 and traded above $75,000. The previous record from March, when the rate settled slightly below $73,800?
Trump has previously branded cryptocurrencies a scam, but he changed his line and during his campaign has praised them and promised to make the United States the worldās centers for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
āThe price of Bitcoin has followed Trumpās position in opinion polls and the betting market. Investors estimate that the victory of the Republicans would increase the demand for digital currencies", says Russ Mold, an analyst at the financial company AJ Bell, to the AFP news agency.
In the United States, the stock exchanges in New York were on the plus side at the end of the trading day on Tuesday after the previous dayās declines.
The technology-focused Nasdaq closed up by a percent 1.4, while the more general S&P 500 was up 1.2 percent. The Industrial-oriented Dow Jones, on the other hand, ended the day with a 1.0 percent increase.
The dollar is initially weakened against the euro, but began to rise in Asian markets against both the euro and the Japanese yen as Trumpās lead. Stock exchange rates were also rising in various parts of Asia. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index ended by a percent 2.4.
The presidential race is a struggle between Democrats Kamala Harris and Republican Trump.
Trump has proposed a combination of low corporate tax rates and looser regulation that would be boosted by corporate profits and tighten the stock market, experts told ABC News.
Dry heaving at the shameless public fellatio Trump performed on Musk in his speech.
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Recently read Brian Merchantās latest piece on the upcoming election, and I felt like making a quick-and-dirty prediction:
If Harris wins, I expect there will be some pretty harsh regulation against Silicon Valley. Putting aside everything but simple political pragmatism:
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Elon Muskās election antics and Trumpās support from tech billoinaires have shown SV holds a significant amount of power over politics - power which will almost certainly prove a constant thorn in Harrisā side. As such, itād be in her self interest to kneecap the Valley ASAP.
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Public opinion of Silicon Valley has taken a pounding over the years for a variety of reasons, with the AI slop-nami just the latest and most serious grievance the public has against them. Any tech regulation a Harris presidency makes (especially against AI) is gonna enjoy significant public support from day one.
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Ubisoftās NFT game is going great:
Ubisoftās NFT game, which has about 6 active players, has a game breaking exploit where one player is winning every match.
āOne player pointed out that the Paulstar111 account was top of the rankings with over 56,000 matches played. Itās not yet clear how the player has been able to connect to so many games and automatically win themā
unfortunately the six active players bit is a joke
a real web3 moment if there ever was one.
In Arizonaās U.S. Senate race, Republican Kari Lake told Politico why she feels confident in her chances, despite recent polling showing her behind Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego: āOur polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of whatās happening on social media and across the Internet.ā
Edit: Found the map sheās using:
Iām sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.
The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.
A significant fraction of the people commenting on HN believe themselves to be the next Jeff Bezos. They cheer for the boot that crushes them, as surely one day they themselves will own that boot.
Said it before, Iāll say it again: if Americans are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, HN is where the temporarily embarrassed billionaires go to hang out
We live in a world where you can watch billionaires publicly humiliate themselves on the daily and never suffer consequences for it. Whatās a little temporary embarrassment compared to that?
For any drive by readers who slightly want to know more background about some stuff: Why Richard Feynman wasnāt a great rolemodel.
(more context for the drive by readers, Feynman is often held up as a great man in STEM circles, and even more so in the world of LessWrong Rationalism. (Which is fine if it is about scientific achievements, but it often goes beyond that as here in their page on ātraditional rationalityā)).
Feynman reminds me of the brujo (one specific man, not brujerĆa in general) from Pirsigās Lila. Feynmanās safecracking and unorthodox approaches are like the brujoās routine flaunting of social norms; through routinely doing things the wrong way (sacred clowning), new possible behaviors and modes of social existence are explored. Also, Feynmanās attitudes towards women remind me of that brujoās tendency to spy on women by looking through their windows into their homes while they were not necessarily dressed, which the brujoās society did not tolerate.
Before my postmodern deconstruction and unlearning of the worship of Great Men, all I needed to know about feynman not being a good person to look up to was the calling women bitches thing. Miss me with that PUA shit
Considering the history of PUA stuff on lesswrong, Im going to assume this was a pro not a con for them even.
NASB - Brian Merchantās celebrating the first anniversary of Blood in the Machineās release
Reading through it, its clear an earlier comment of mine was dead-on - the public image of the Luddites has been fully rehabilitated, and we can primarily credit Merchant for pulling it off.
Forced to endure an episode of an Irish tv programme about the environment in which a guest sincerely listed carbon capture & storage and small nuclear reactor as potential energy solutions. As mentioned above, the earth is our coffin, hope is a mistake, etc
Carbon capture, small nuclear reactors. We stopped thinking big. To really solve climate change we need to do one easy, but big thing. Blow up the Sun.
Kill and dethrone God.
Malcolm McDowell successfully blew up a star in one of the Star Trek movies, even if it did immediately get reversed by a time-travel MacGuffin. Perhaps we just need new leadership?
Donāt think we should put another space guy into politics, no matter their expertise at blowing up stars. They tend to go bad quickly.
Youāll hear no complaint from me.
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