Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024

Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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.

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So this is apparently something AI companies now think is smart to advertise with. Don’t know who’d willingly consider this something targeted at them, but here we are.
- I rewrote the ad so they can lean into their marketing strategy.
  
  Hard book have hard word and make head hurt, AI make book easy! More book read for you. No hard word. This good idea!
  
  I want to make a zoolander riff but my brain just isn't cooperating, so instead pretend I did (just like these people pretend their product is worth something)
  
  Hahah lol, that was pretty good.
  
  I immortalized it for you into a meme here
- ah yes, the Simple English wiki filter but wrong
- the part of me that sometimes spends an hour just choosing the right words for the couple of paragraphs I’m writing is fucking screaming
  
  …
  
  there is a screaming noise that comes from me while I write
  
  thanks magibook!
  
  can’t wait for this shit to show up in usage among people who have english as an additional language at different level of fluency to their primaries. totally don’t see it causing a cascade clusterfuck in communication and comprehension.
  
  there’s already a strain of this out there, with a lot of english-non-first students using LLMs to “make their work sound more polished”. similar as the strain using it for CVs etc
  
  ran across a great thread on fedi a while back, will see if I can find it
- I can't even
- It's good that they're offsetting their advantages in the marketplace of money by actively crippling themselves in the marketplace of ideas.

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