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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    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 Iā€™ve been owned in a way I canā€™t even explain to my closest friends.

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      The third worst part is the fact that Iā€™ve been owned in a way I canā€™t 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 theyā€™d rank higher.

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    Fuck it, off-the-cuff prediction: I expect resistance to Silicon Valley is gonna turn violent during Trumpā€™s term.

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      ā€œOur 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. ā€œWe 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€

      ā€œwhich is why we donā€™tā€

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        last I saw that wasnā€™t really well-insulated from upstreamā€™s bullshit

        one of the recent things moz pulled ended up enabled in librewolf on basically the same day/timeline

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    re: election results. unfortunately iā€™m not surprised or even disappointed by now. it makes me feel sad for my 2015 self and her naivete. she didnā€™t understand what a disgusting and evil culture she lived in

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      I donā€™t have too much coherent to say right now

      fuck the fascists for what theyā€™ve done and what they intend to do

      fuck the neoliberals for doing their best to convince marginalized people that they shouldnā€™t defend themselves against a terrible fate

      fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap theyā€™re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

      shitā€™s about to get very hard and very weird and I canā€™t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

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        I canā€™t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

        strong agree

        minor upside: itā€™s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

        fucking fuck this sucks

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          minor upside: itā€™s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

          correct. keep receipts.

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        what a surprise, the thread all the leftist shitposters on mastodon boosted about how youā€™re a class traitor if you donā€™t vote for the Green Party (who I donā€™t buy as socialist) or ā€œany other socialist partyā€ (fucking who??? am I supposed to write ā€œsocialismā€ on my ballot in crayon???) conveniently went missing

        anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonā€™s a shooting gallery tonight

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          i do love how the ā€œanti-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 donā€™t want to look at it ever again.

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            i bet the self-described antiimperialists going all for Southern Lebanon Parking Lot 2024 feel real smug right now

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          Didnā€™t the Green Party woman also just go ā€˜Iā€™m 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).

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          anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonā€™s a shooting gallery tonight

          Iā€™ve 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

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      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 Iā€™m 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 ā€˜this is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are countedā€™ are correct and not on hopeium.

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          I canā€™t tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).

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            both by electoral college and by popular vote trump has advantage, and worse than that house and senate are republican now

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    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 worldā€™s centers for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

    ā€œThe price of Bitcoin has followed Trumpā€™s 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 dayā€™s 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 Trumpā€™s 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 Merchantā€™s 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:

    1. Elon Muskā€™s election antics and Trumpā€™s 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, itā€™d be in her self interest to kneecap the Valley ASAP.

    2. 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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    Ubisoftā€™s NFT game is going great:

    Ubisoftā€™s NFT game, which has about 6 active players, has a game breaking exploit where one player is winning every match.

    ā€œOne player pointed out that the Paulstar111 account was top of the rankings with over 56,000 matches played. Itā€™s not yet clear how the player has been able to connect to so many games and automatically win themā€

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    In Arizonaā€™s 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: ā€œOur polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of whatā€™s happening on social media and across the Internet.ā€

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mondays-campaign-11424-kari-lake-adds-ai-polls-rcna178681?icid=latestpost_bot

    Edit: Found the map sheā€™s using:

    https://xcancel.com/IwriteOK/status/1853647442740441289#m

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      Iā€™m sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.

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      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.

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        Said it before, Iā€™ll say it again: if Americans are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, HN is where the temporarily embarrassed billionaires go to hang out

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    For any drive by readers who slightly want to know more background about some stuff: Why Richard Feynman wasnā€™t 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 ā€˜traditional rationalityā€™)).

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      Feynman reminds me of the brujo (one specific man, not brujerĆ­a in general) from Pirsigā€™s Lila. Feynmanā€™s safecracking and unorthodox approaches are like the brujoā€™s 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, Feynmanā€™s attitudes towards women remind me of that brujoā€™s tendency to spy on women by looking through their windows into their homes while they were not necessarily dressed, which the brujoā€™s society did not tolerate.

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      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

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        Considering the history of PUA stuff on lesswrong, Im going to assume this was a pro not a con for them even.

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    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

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      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.

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        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?

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          Donā€™t think we should put another space guy into politics, no matter their expertise at blowing up stars. They tend to go bad quickly.