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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Scooter pulls out Richard Lynn’s national IQ figures. https://archive.is/BJ6bd

[-] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)

I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don't graduate school, ignoring that Lynn's methodology wasn't up to any basic standard

And by love I mean I fucking hate it

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

isn't it racist / dumb to say they have 60 IQ?

no according to Kirkegaard

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (pause to catch breath) uh.

A well at least the mask is totally off now.

E: and a thing that has been bothering me, it is quite fucked up for somebody with Scotts education to go along with this argument about disabled people that easily.

content warning for this paragraph(Not that this is the first time he forgets he has an official education, and cant just ignore that (yes im still mad about the time he said "well she had mental health issues and was a liar" or something about the woman who tragically ended her life after accusing parts of the community of sexual abuse, and didnt mention that a reputation like that would increase the risk of abuse)).

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[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

oh my god i didn't catch that this was astro slate star and thought i was reading some overtly racist piece of shit instead of a covert racist piece of shit. i haven't kept up with him lately but this this seems very fucked up even by scott's standards.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago
[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

bonus steve sailer in the comments

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

That isn't a bonus. He is always in the comments.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

This is what I get for not following these people!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

It remains one of those small !!fun!! facts that while Marxbro got permad for being annoying and correct about Marx, Sailer only got a temp ban while being wrong, racist but nice (he has been banned at least once, but racists play by the Tusken Raider rules if not permad)

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[-] rook@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago

Possibly I’m the last to hear about this one, but seeing as proton mail has come up here a few times before: the founder and ceo Andy Yen is apparently a Trump fan.

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

(from the beginning of december, on the nomination of trump staffer Gail Slater to antitrust post at the doj)

https://xcancel.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

Sorry I and some others missed this post talking about the tweet so we have two top level ones atm. My more sensational post about the subject got a bit more attention. So you were not late but early.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago

new developments in things understanding by promptfondlers https://feddit.uk/post/22751391

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago

Underlying original post: a Twitter bluecheck says,

Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

Matt Novak on Bluesky screenshots this and comments,

AI folks have now discovered "thinking"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 5 days ago

Paul I am begging you to actually write out a fucking timeline. Apparently woke started in the 80s in universities when the (white) civil rights protestors of the 70s got tenure in the 60s, as an inevitable and predictable extension of political correctness in the 90s. From the title you're obviously going to indulge the conservative fantasy that "wokeness" is a coherent thing rather than a political tool to dismiss calls for action to actually address blatant injustice. But if you're going to bullshit me, at least do it competently and have an internally consistent narrative that allows for the natural passage of time.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

Man wrote nearly 5k words of pure unfiltered cap:

I'm not sure how someone can read all this without capping themselves. We could sneer this all fucking day.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

If you can't get through two short paragraphs without equating Stalinism and "social justice", you may be a cockwomble.

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Read a rumor that zuck's marriage is falling apart, which scans.

A second divorced man is about to hit the tower.

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