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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..)

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

tesla: "your car is not your car and we have deep, varied firmware and systems access to it on a permanent basis. we can see you and control you at all times. piss us off and we'll turn off the car that we own."

also tesla: "sorry no you can't return it"

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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

so like a fool I decided to search the web. specifically for which network protocol Lisp REPLs use these days (is it nREPL? or is that just a clojure thing with ambitions?)

and the first extremely SEOed result on ddg was this bizarre blend of an obscure research lisp from 2012 and LLM articles about how Lisp is used in mental health:

Numerous applications and tools are being developed to support mental health and wellness. Among the varied programming languages at the forefront, Lisp stands out due to its unique capabilities in cognitive modeling and behavior analysis.

so I know exactly what this is, but why is this? what even is the game here?

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

A terrifying poster, spotted in the window of a tattoo shop in Dublin: A poster featuring images of leprechauns, celtic knots, harps, and other assorted paddywhackery. The images seem to have been created with AI. The poster lists prices for them as tattoo designs (!)

Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

wake up babe, new Yud profile pic just dropped

(And by "just" I mean "sometime in the past three weeks or so". I don't skim his exTwitter feed for sneerables very often.)

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the hawk tuah teapot is actually hysterical which is how I knew the poster was taking the piss

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