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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.

Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - this one was a bit late, I got distracted)

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[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

Irish election watch: Scary far right candidate uses scary AI images for his leaflet in the Dublin Bay North constituency.

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I woke up and immediately read about something called "Defense Llama". The horrors are never ceasing: https://theintercept.com/2024/11/24/defense-llama-meta-military/

Scale AI advertised their chatbot as being able to:

apply the power of generative AI to their unique use cases, such as planning military or intelligence operations and understanding adversary vulnerabilities

However their marketing material, as is tradition, include an example of terrible advice. Which is not great given it's about blowing up a building "while minimizing collateral damage".

Scale AI's response to the news pointing this out -- complaining that everyone took their murderbot marketing material seriously:

The claim that a response from a hypothetical website example represents what actually comes from a deployed, fine-tuned LLM that is trained on relevant materials for an end user is ridiculous.

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[-] nightsky@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not even buying things on blu-ray is safe anymore from being tainted with "AI" nightmare fuel.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is completely off topic I think but I need you all to see this, it's important on a spiritual level

This map is infinitely sneerable, every region you look at is somehow worse than the previous one, regardless of the order in which you do that.

Tag yourself, I'm Cracked Coast, population 17.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

someone needs to stop paradox gamers from interfacing with the real world

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah people who make maps like this seem to miss the whole point, borders are rigid, populations are fluid. And even paradox games seem to understand this with various mechanics. (which then tend to take a bit of a genocidal undertone (see the 1 culture speedruns)). E: anyway, due to the massive population in the benelux (30m) and the relative small weak neighbors, this is the best start on this map).

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[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kind of interested in the precise type of brainworms that result in Greece annexing Northern Epirus from Albania but think Thrace should be its own thing.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Unifying belgium and the Netherlands makes me think really bad things about the map designers. People who want that are either fools who dont know much about the region or white nationalist fascists. (They often also want SA included)

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

caucasus would be even bigger shitshow than it is now. no chechenia or ingushetia, but azerbaijan has now half of current armenian land + iranian province of the same name. that's weirdly specific and suspicious

Wait, do you mean new Armenia or Old Armenia? I'm not fluent in the region. But I'm sure Turkiye will be happy to surrender territory to Old Armenia after denying that whole affair for the last ~100 years.

[-] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Why does the region around Armenia look so unchanged? Why is Transylvania in Ukraine? Italy becomes Romania, ok I've had enough

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago

there are two transylvanias

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Only feed the Transylvania you want to become.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair there are lots of forests one can be on other side of in Eurasia...

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

And if you think about it you can literally get one of these PCs for one month and then win a Fortnite tournament or something and have enough money to buy your own PC.

Marketing to pre-teen gamers must be like shooting fish in a barrel.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Marketing to ~~pre-teen~~ gamers must be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Don't even need to do much - Stellar Blade threw some fanservice their way and laughed all the way to the bank. Gamers are stupid.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Capital G gamers think they are mega smart and some sort of consumer powerhouse who cannot be scammed, and like a lot of people who think they are too smart to be scammed they fall for everything, preorders, fanservice, horse armor, DLC etc etc it all gets gobbled up like slob, no wonder so many fall for the ragebait.

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