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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 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.

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That assassin in New York has turned out to be a EA hang around.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:

https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m

This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is it, im joining the Conjoiners to become an engine.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Lots off developments in the UHC shooter case -They (probably) caught him -He's even hotter without his three identical jackets -He's a Thielhead

Not very happy with how this day's going

https://xcancel.com/pepmangione

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

He was radicalized by Tim Urban

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

reddit just launched an LLM integrated into the site. hardly any point going through what garbage these things are at this point but of course it failed the first test I gave it

miscounting "r"s in "strawberry"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Baldur Bjarnason just put out his interim notes on tech

Reading through his notes, I get the feeling my off-the-cuff predictions from two months ago are very likely to come true - much more likely than I had anticipated. I'm gonna focus on Predictions 2 and 3:

A Decline in Tech/STEM Students/Graduates

Whether or not tech crashes like I expect, AI's likely did some serious damage to the notion of "tech/STEM = high-paying job" as it sent the job industry into turmoil ( with junior positions being particularly affected).

Tech/STEM’s Public Image Changes - For The Worse

Whilst my original post focused on AI turning the public against the tech industry, one thing I didn't account for was the tech industry directly aligning itself with Trump. As such, tech/STEM's public image is now firmly intertwined with Trump's public image - with predictable results.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Someone made a... thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the "bots" are hilarious: "ennui" for low-effort posts; I don't think that word means what you think it means. "Legion" for automatic spam posts. Cause that's not a dogwhistle or anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.

Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Im going to assume they meant it as a reference to the Castlevania boss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So the code doesn't make use of any LLM, it's just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). It's curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks

Is it so that you don't have to read replies?

It will be added

Aargh, what's the point??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm struggling to understand the fucking purpose here o.O. It feels like someone desperately trying to make anything for their portfolio or smt