Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024
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.
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Ran across an impressively strong sneer whilst looking through Baldur Bjarnason's link list for the week:
A JUST TRANSITION MEANS RESISTING A.I. (from Scottish Left Review)
Gonna copy-paste the quote Baldur used because god damn:
AI isn’t simply a problematic technology but an apparatus that is shaped by the injustices of our existing social relations and which, in turn, reshapes and intensifies them.
Also got an interesting Tweet from Ed Zitron:
This is entirely my gut instinct, but there is boiling resentment against big tech. Something is shifting, and it's shifting violently, both in the general public and the media. Blood in the water. People are ready for a change.
I've had that same gut instinct before - I've kinda had it since Baldur noted tech's disconnect from the public a month ago. Feels like we're entering an era where working in tech is treated as a red flag, a sign you're a money-hungry asshole willing to hurt innocent people to make a quick buck.
:( I just wanted to see how many electrons I could make dance on the head of a wafer, I didn't mean to hurt anyone :(
The good news is that the tools created were sufficiently useful that there's still a decent job market for tech workers (assuming we're not focused on the griftier side), it's just focused largely in non-tech companies.
The turn against tech can’t come fast enough.