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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 2 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Want to wade into the sandy 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.

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 so 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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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

Michael Burry is one of the investors who is shorting big tech. (Business Insider - paywalled Substack). I just invest much less in the USA than its 60% share of the global stock market, and less than 40% of that in big tech.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

https://lbpost.com/news/education/california-state-university-renews-controversial-systemwide-contract-with-openai

A CSU spokesperson confirmed to EdSource on Wednesday that the university will pay $13 million a year for three years to provide systemwide access to its more than 470,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff. The previous 18-month subscription cost $17 million and expires at the end of June.

Are we so locked in we're going to put up with a 10% price hike? Couldn't be bothered to get a new vendor with a better deal, or use the Google one they are also paying for, or just use the free one? This is where the tuition increases are going, this is how we want to spend our taxes? :(

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago

new odium symposium episode (at the link and on all platforms). we talk to professor of africana studies danielle procope bell about her recent paper "'Pick-Me' Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/17-introduction-159058420

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I don't even know what to say here. Cool scam I guess

https://xcancel.com/herasight/status/2057888072092856823

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How does one give an embryo an IQ test.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 10 points 13 hours ago

Big syringe

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

Most leading Rationalists are autistic, but many of them are in denial. Many are Jewish or have Jewish parents. You can debate which kind of folly let them embrace eugenics and white supremacism: are they brain-proud and desperate to believe that they were destined from birth to rule? Sure that they just have eccentric Ashkenazi genius genes not inferior Autistic genes? Naive that the deportations would stop with black and brown people? Their favourite Catholic fantasy author had some warnings for them.

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 8 points 15 hours ago

Rhythms of the body are showcased in the scores of dances performed daily across the continent [inaudible] in Uganda, Kpanlogo in Ghana, Nganda in Gambia, [inaudible] in Cameroun, Sindimba [phonetics] in Tanzania, [inaudible] in Nigeria and so on.

Imagine if this was about European music and naming various cultures inside Europe, if all of them would be the [inaudible] people.

"There are some good uses for 'AI' like making transcriptions", they tell me. "No need to pay people to do transcriptions, this is good for accessibility, nope, no issues whatsoever with using 'AI' transcriptions everywhere" /s

[–] NextElephant9@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

I thought this interview with Prof. Michael I. Jordan was worth listening to, he's bringing down the hype a bit: Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria).

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