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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.

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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. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

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[–] cap_ybarra@beige.party 8 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

@CinnasVerses it's almost as if the people running ycombinator had some sort of vested interest in a particular framing of tech stories

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Maciej Ceglowski said that one reason he gave up on organizing SoCal tech workers was that they kept scheduling events in a Google meeting room using their Google calendar with "Re: Union organizing?" as the subject of the meeting.

[–] emma@mathstodon.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

@CinnasVerses @cap_ybarra 10x developers, ladies, gentlemen, and enbies. The best and brightest.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

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