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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol it's real https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1420822651442921472

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think there's a level of US cultural stuff I don't understand here but I'll just sneer away, hoping no-one quizzes me on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

dumb pop star shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I now regret asking for and getting this information.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

how long have you been here

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I recall reading some of this around the time, seeing the rest of it is even more wild. Talk about a bad trip, heh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Non tech-focused AI scam:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/cops-called-after-parents-get-tricked-by-ai-generated-images-of-wonka-like-event/

A story from a couple months ago that I heard about just now from the scam goddess podcast.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

(ventpost) a personalized fuckyou to musk for making it impossible for me making twitter effectively unusable being logged in

(context: power's out in my area atm, and (because of a variety of ZA-flavoured reasons, which are also problems..) I can't actually get any fucking info because it's all just on a twitter feed)

I still refuse to log in though (and I'll double down on hating the cunt for his choices impacting my life in this manner)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Small thread on eschatological AGI things by xriskology interesting because the eschatological Christian apocalypticists are looping it back into religion by calling AGI the False Prophet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mind dropping an archive of it? Can’t access Twitter threads without being logged in these days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

the archives can't get threads either, unfortunately. But in this case there's only a second tweet: https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1778833319263687104

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Grimes popping back into the sneerstream reminded me about that time Janelle Monáe demonstrated how sexy robot songs can be good actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFK6k-pvXmI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

adobe firefly also had a bit of the steals

I wonder what the outcome would be for one of these things trained only on consent-knowingly-provided (vs "implied because of a default-on checkbox that got added to user prefs without announcement") data. or even just what the comparative dataset size would be. if the whole internet isn't enough for them to steal...

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