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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 minutes ago

I made a sneer about moving from Twitter to yet another Jack Dorsey social network, but after looking into it he apparently left Bluesky and joined Musk's team instead, because of moderation options. Geez, maybe I should sign up. But creating and keeping track of new accounts to sites is a pain in the aaaaaaassssss.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Didn't have that on my bingo card for this year, but it's on brand. A big part of The Onion's MO is just riding out the insanity and inject a little of their own.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Got recommended a video from a friend, and its a damn good sneer at the state of YouTube sponsorships:

Why YouTube Sponsors Are (Almost) Always Terrible

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Folks, huge W today. I was hanging out with my parents today and my mother was scrolling her feed, commenting out loud about everything she saw when she came across some autoplag content. “This is fake!” she said, and I could not be prouder. Not just because she IDed the slop, but because it meant she at least has a better brain than my trumper family members that habitually repost trumper slop.

Cherry on top: she showed me a text chain where she was trolling a “my phone died, this is my new number” scammer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I know we're trying to cut back on the US politics for the sake of everyone's sanity, but Musk getting sneered by his own confabulator is still pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's sad. As the article points out similar incidents have happened repeatedly. Anyone who saw the door design could have (and did!) predict something like this would happen. My coworker was trapped in his Tesla in his garage for 15 minutes (and he wasn't in a panic).

Look at the picture of the manual door release here: It's pretty well hidden, you reach in and pull up on the door buttons.

... then scroll down and look at the picture of the rear door manual release. You have to pull off some trim from inside the pocket, pull off another panel, and then pull a cable.

... but wait! There's more!

Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.

Jesus, I hope the engineers who signed off on this think about what they've done and do better. I would say I hope someone regulated bad emergency door releases out of existence but... y'know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine what other flaws these cars have if the tried to 'innovate' like this on the solved technology that is fucking doors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The lack of a speedometer in front of your face is a pretty glaring quality issue. You have to turn your head to look at the massive touchscreen. The one that replaces all other dashboards and most tactile controls ~~for manufacturing cost savings~~ to be a cool futuristic vehicle of the future.

I won't even start talking about the whole CyberStuck thing again because that's too easy; except to point out that it has turn buttons on the steering wheel instead of a turn signal stalk, a shifter on the ceiling, and the steering wheel is not round.

I only recently bought my first car and it's just old enough that it didn't even have a backup camera until I got one installed. Honestly half the reason of buying used was so I could have a car without a touchscreen haha.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

ofc it comes with a square wheel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The job site decided to recommend me an article calling for the removal of most human oversight from military AI on grounds of inefficiency, which is a pressing issue since apparently we're already living in the Culture.

The Strategic Liability of Human Oversight in AI-Driven Military Operations

Conclusion

As AI technology advances, human oversight in military operations, though rooted in ethics and legality, may emerge as a strategic liability in future AI-dominated warfare.

~~Oh unknowable genie of the sketchily curated datasets~~ Claude, come up with an optimal ratio of civilian to enemy combatant deaths that will allow us to bomb that building with the giant red cross that you labeled an enemy stronghold.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

~~As AI technology advances, human oversight in military operations, though rooted in~~ ethics and legality, may emerge as a strategic liability ~~in future AI-dominated warfare~~.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is awful for sure, but thankfully low impact. Turns out that this Terminator Enjoyer is an unemployed idea guy. Maybe he's wrangling for an IDF contract?

From jobbie site:

"An accomplished manager, with expertise in developing innovative concepts and ideas into client services operations and streamlining delivery of products/services within Defence / Cyber Security and Information Technology industry."

and

Technology and Innovation executive , Currently on short sabbatical May 2024 - Present 7 months

Also, I the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace ain't what it used to be, is it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

human oversigh :(

and daiquiri nominations :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, I the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace ain’t what it used to be, is it?

Is that a screenshot from Command&Conquer 4?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

what if C&4, but in the metaverse?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Eliminating Mothman is our prime strattgic priority

Private Bbailcy! I see you back there! Cut it out with the oversighing, you're dragging down morale KPIs for this quarter!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, ethics and legality are strategic liabilities? Jesus fucking Christ, that’s not even sneer-worthy. This guy is completely fucking insane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is straight up Hague material right there, all he wants is plausible deniability

Computer said so 🥺

e: that's a shit take for several reasons and we have autonomous killers already. it's called air defense (in some modes) because how many civilians are going at mach fuck with RCS of 0.1m^2, that's no civilian that's ballistic missile. also lmao at speed of decision

perun video on this topic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tou8ahLZvP4

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you've convinced yourself that you'll mostly be fighting the AIs of a rival always-chaotic-evil alien species or their outgroup equivalent, you probably think they are.

Otherwise I hope shooting first and asking questions later will probably continue to be frowned upon in polite society even if it's automated agents doing the shooting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Just a general comment on the state of things. Now that Musk has fused with the ideological flesh chimera of the next US government and is tapping others to be absorbed, any US politics will be TechTakes-adjacent. Perhaps some ground rules must be set so we aren't drowned in non-procedurally generated slop.

Either way, I'm cutting back on the musk unless it is directly sneerable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles

President-elect Trump has tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory group focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of the government.

Trump announced Tuesday that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), an initiative meant to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures” and restructure federal agencies.

We live in the dumbest timeline

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn't expecting complete fascist victory to be so... cringe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

skibidi purges

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is literally going to be an embezzlement op isn't it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its gonna be the largest embezzlement scheme in US history, that much I'm certain. How much damage the pair will do to the federal gov I'm not sure, but I expect there won't be much left of it once they're done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Personally I'm betting on Teapot Dome: somebody in the Cabinet will be convicted of something like bribery, foreign influence, or electoral interference; and the cleanup will implicate multiple other Cabinet members. Trump needs to do this at some point anyway; he's already done all of the Nixon things like Watergate and interfering in foreign wars, and while he attempted a Teapot Dome last time with Ryan Zinke, he needs to actually have a Cabinet member removed or convicted in order to truly be a worse president than Warren G. Harding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

@corbin

How would that even happen with a Trumpist DOJ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

@BlueMonday1984 I am dead. From Fremdschämen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Such meme. Much wow. I see we’re continuing with giving dumb names to everything the Muskrat is involved in. Glad that hasn’t changed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kabosu didn't die for this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

I voted for Liz in 2020 :( instead they gave me diamond joe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division

Our Motto: "Sic diximus vobis"

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