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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


New article on AI scraping just hit The Register, with some choice quotes from Anubis dev Xe Iaso. Xe herself has given some additional thoughts.
Thatās weird, The Registerās versions of the quotes are different (not just pared down).
You donāt say, the register, taking journalistic integrity less than serious? (Hi, itās me, a person who has been annoyed by their editorial choices for more than two decades now)
The overall collapsing of journalism and shit-slinging has had consequences for beyond the obvious.
Thatās certainly true, but the register has had a mean-spirited and anti-intellectual bent for much longer than that. Theyāve been doing shitty journalism since you could still buy independent local newspapers on paper.
That what theyāve been doing is mainstream now is only even more disappointing.