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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024 (awful.systems)

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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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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 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 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months 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 6 months ago (17 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 6 months ago

@BlueMonday1984 I am dead. From Fremdschämen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kabosu didn't die for this.

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

hot sneer from lizzy w:

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division

Our Motto: "Sic diximus vobis"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

https://x.com/kevinbaker/status/1816891882464800945

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

saltman: no better time to be a startup

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Have any of the trumps been on the red scare pod yet? Feel like that’s on the timeline.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

begins invisible accordion

Then Curtis Marvin, very smart guy, when to MIT like my famous uncle, he said, "but sir, a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"

Many such cases, I said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

masterful endofunctor, sir

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

But Trump can't explain things, and Urbit defies explanation. So does the statement "Trump explains Urbit" represent undefined behavior in English?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What is worse? Trump explaining urbit and coming close? Or him explaining it so wrong you feel the need to set the record straight about the gravest misconceptions? ("Trump said Elon invented it, but it actually was Yarvin, also as Elon didnt invent it, he certainly didnt say 'good idea sir' to Trump").

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

I think in this case, the equivalent of a compiler error for undefined behavior would be a swiftly forgotten wire story entitled "Trump promotes cryptocurrency project" published on a Friday afternoon. Just one more scam among the flood, and not one that can be offered for easy monthly payments with a banner ad in the margins of an RSBN broadcast.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah, everyone in the traditional media seems to be even more committed to sane-washing than they were in the lead up to the election.

Though the spike doge got today is definitely in the "laugh to avoid screaming" column.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Heads up, Zitron's gonna drop

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