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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago

i need to ping ludicity for a pod

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 4 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0

a heartwarming start to your day

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Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI (www.youtube.com)

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

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what we do when all this is over

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250717-kim-crawley-recovering-after-gen-ai - podcast

time: 32 min 54 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Balaji's free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

lolol

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything

there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren't going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it's a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn't really have a compelling use case in its own right.