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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

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[–] robjwells@awful.systems -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wonder how many of their users have transitioned to beating off to artisanal probabilistic LLM smut.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm going to guess "few", on general vibes.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've read a few stories in the past year or two that updated suspiciously rapidly and weren't terribly well written. But overall the culture there is against AI generation.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Speaking in very general terms, the combination of wanting a community, writing out of abstruse passion and appreciating writing done out of abstruse passion make for an anti-AI blend. The balance of inevitable slop and hostility against inevitable slop tilts towards the latter.

[–] robjwells@awful.systems -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really hope so, but tbh my immediate thought was that they’d all be on “r/myboyfriendisai”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there's no need to be condescending towards a cultural phenomenon one doesn't understand.

[–] robjwells@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

Yes that’s fair, I apologise.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There have been a tragically large number of generated fics uploaded this year, but at least they're tagged...

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

I imagine they're running into the same issue that github is, just on a lesser scale.