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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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

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Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later (www.nytimes.com)

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archive: https://archive.ph/oAlsb

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UnitedHealthcare Optum leaves internal AI chatbot open to the world (pivot-to-ai.com)

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OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Windows AI Copilot+ Recall stores screenshots of sensitive data, regardless of ‘sensitive information’ filter (pivot-to-ai.com)

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GM avoids reinventing a bus or a train with this one weird trick (archive.md)

submitted 1 year ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics (bsky.app)

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Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes (archive.md)

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“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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SF tech startup Scale AI, worth $13.8B, accused of widespread wage theft (archive.md)

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the dead end grift that is lab grown meat (thecounter.org)

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lab grown meat is a vaguely EA/rationalist/self IDed neolib meme. in theory it will save the environment (ok) and prevent suffering (yay) in a way that concentrates capital (double yay) and involves a lot of tech magic (triple yay).

hot luigi is a big fan apparently. seeing this discussed reminded me of this excellent article which shreds the concept of mass produced lab grown meat. I haven't really seen this circulate much over the years, but it is really a masterwork of grift dissection. please enjoy

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208141305/https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/

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OpenAI launches then un-launches Sora, Twitter gives Grok away for free (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Sorry kid, we killed your robot — Embodied goes broke, AI social devices will stop working (pivot-to-ai.com)

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