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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

More "red hat" than "red flag", but you're still dead-on.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

My exposure to the guy began and ended at seeing him tut-tutting HBomberguy for nuking James Somerton's career - glad to know my five-second assessment of him was dead on

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The Framework thread caused by the company's fash turn is still going even after eight full days.

Lotta lowlights to pick from, but the guy openly praising DHH for driving Basecamp straight off a cliff is particularly sneer-worthy:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They posted this recent article written by Peter Coffin

Oh, hey, that's the "Plagiarism is AWESOME, And Here's Why" guy, who tut-tutted HBomberguy for erasing plagiarist shithead James Somerton from existence and went to bat for JK Rowling okay yeah dump this guy's shit in the fucking bin

I was pretty strongly anti-copyright back when I was younger, but after seeing the plague of art theft and grave robbing the NFT fad brought (documented heavily by @NFTTheft on Twitter), and especially after the AI bubble triggered an onslaught of art theft, cultural vandalism and open hostility to artists, I have come around to strongly supporting it.

I may have some serious complaints about the current state of copyright (basically everyone has), but its clear that copyright is absolutely necessary to protect artists (rich and poor) from those who exploit the labour of others.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Guy's been doing well for himself since the Escapist imploded in 2023 - he's doing video reviews and video essays over on Second Wind, under the names Fully Ramblomatic and Semi Ramblomatic, respectively.

(As for the Escapist, it got sold off to a "private investor" and turned into a gambling content mill in 2025)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

New Baldur Bjarnason: The inevitability of anger, on the impending reckoning for AI and tech influencers' attempts to avoid it, plus how social media shapes public discourse.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know full well you're being sarcastic, but my answer is an emphatic "NO". I feel like I'm gonna need a lobotomy to get this hypothetical out my head now.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

New Ed Zitron, giving exact numbers for how much money Cursor and Anthropic have lit on fire and continuing to shed light on the AI industry's ability to incinerate revenue.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

To lightly paraphrase Yahtzee Croshaw:

Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant hype-mongering cockbags.

This is the second time this rancid idea has been put forward, and its just as morally bankrupt as the first.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How do you even get to the point that you think that’s something you want to advertise?

Man's spent several years and shitloads of cash destroying his public image (and probably his brain) via slop bots, I suspect he's getting desperate to prove his LLM booster turn wasn't a career-ruining blunder

(He's also probably lost the ability to tell good work from bad work as well - that's a universal quality among slop advocates, as Gerard has pointed out on multiple occasions)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don’t think there’s literally any non-shitty tech left with Framework turning fash.

Doing some digging, it seems GNOME's still non-shitty - they've reportedly refused sponsorship money from Framework, to the whining of multiple people online (post is in Russian).

Doesn't change the fact that Framework's dealt a big blow to right-for-repair by doing this, but its something.

EDIT: Just gonna add in something I gotta get off my chest:

Even from a "ruthless capitalist" perspective, Framework's fash turn is pretty baffling to me. They positioned themselves as beacons of right-to-repair, as good guys in tech trying to "fix consumer electronics, one category at a time" - their shit was overtly political from the fucking start. People weren't buying them to get the fastest laptops, or to get the best value for money, they bought them because they believed in their stated mission. Anyone with business sense would've known shilling a fascist's personal Linux "distro" would've presented a severe risk to Framework's brand.

Exactly how Nirav got blindsided by this shit, I genuinely don't understand. Considering his response to the backlash involved "aPoLiTiCaL" "bIg TeNt" blather and publicly farming compassion from Twitter fash, its probably because he's an outright fascist himself and assumed everyone else around him shared his utterly rancid views.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Don't rely on random oracles and spirits when running a military campaign, you fool, you moron." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War (paraphrased)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Fool's in advance.)

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ReactOS 0.4.15 released (reactos.org)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

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

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"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge] (www.theverge.com)
 

A solid piece on AI and ethics (and the general lack of them), featuring a nice sideswipe at our very good friends.

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Tiny3D - High-Res Textures [N64 Homebrew] (www.youtube.com)
 

Fun fact: somebody managed to pull off deferred rendering on the Nintendo 64. And its let them show off impressively high-res textures at pretty solid framerates.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

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

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Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction" (awful.systems)
 

XCancel: https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1900247885142434220

Context: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115

If I had a nickel for every "metafictional" "short" "story" a promptbro shat into existence on Twitter, I'd have two nickels. That's not much, but its two nickels too fucking many.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

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

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"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

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

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 (awful.systems)
 

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.

(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)

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Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles (www.youtube.com)
 

Another banger video from f4mi, showcasing some pretty creative ways to sabotage slop summarisers/scrapers.

Sidenote: I was right - anti-scraping measures would make use of feeding false info to scrapers.

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