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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride :3)
Also, happy Pride :3
Yes, happy pride month everyone!
Iāve decided that this year Iām going to be more open about this and wear a pride bracelet whenever I go in public this month. Including for (remote) work meetings where nobody knowsā¦ wonder if anyone will notice.
Hell yeah!
Seems thereās a lot of buzz about pride month this year. Iāve been to one pride parade as a teen and have approximately zero LGBT fashion items, but solidarity and visibility seems more important in recent years. I should find a necklace with trans flag colors or something.
Time for my infrequent missive about the intersection of sneerspace and comedy podcasts. The current episode of one of my favourite comedy podcasts, Doughboys, jumpscared me today when one of the hosts, Mitch, came back from a toilet break and independently came up with the fundamentals of Rokoās Basilisk (the torture in cyberspace part). Anyway here it is, or if you want, you can start with the context of the toilet break. Whatās important to note is that these guys do not try to present themselves as intelligent, and usually present themselves as stupid.
This piece, although in a way defeatist, also gives me hope because thereās at least one other person who has the same general feeling about LLMs that I do, and is a better writer.
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Iām gonna think that the latest drumbeat of pro-LLM posts (tpacekās screed, this excrescense) is a last gasp of a system running in midair like the Coyote, before the VC money dries up.
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Zach Weinersmith skeeted: Movie idea:
Effective Altruism Star Wars, in which itās OK to be a Sith as long as the majority of your earnings go through vetted charities.
āŖPlodā¬ skeeted: And when the Death Star explodes itās due to fraudulant accounting
āŖtiedotonā¬ skeeted: Building endless swaths of droids that do nothing but continuously experience bliss to offset any suffering caused by the Empire.
Not sure if that would be done by the Empire or the Rebellion
I also appreciate how many of the ātransformativeā actions are just ādid a really good thingā¦ with AI!ā
HR reduced time-to-hire by 30%! How? They told Jerry to stop hand-copying each candidateās resume (I sleep). Also we tried out an LLM forā¦ something (Real shit).
Like, these are not examples of how AI adoption can benefit your organization and why being on board is important. Theyāre split between āthings you can do to mitigate the flaws in AIā and āthings that would be good if your organization could doā and an implication that the two are related.
another good piece from 404, teachers being real unhappy with the tsunami of bullshit autoplag has loaded them with
eugenics, saas edition
sigh
Todayās āChrist, what an assholeā award goes to Ravi V. Bellamkonda, executive vice president and provost at thāOSU.
Twitter rumour mill is churning about that guy arrested in connection with the IVF bombing - possible zizian or so it goes.
OT: I GOT THE JOB HOLY SHIT
I wrote a memoir thing on my brief, dystopic time at Google . Iām not sure if me reminiscing about the time when I sold out fits the topic of the forum, but I think a lot of it qualifies as sneering and might generally interest this audience.
AI audio transcription is great.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114627512725655987
Sean Murray @NoMansSky
Ignore the auto-generated captions. We did not have a secret room hiding deaf kids.
Nintendo never once sent us deaf kids. We were hiding dev-kits. DEV-KITS.
Little table of āai fluencyā from zapier via linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wadefoster_how-do-we-measure-ai-fluency-at-zapier-activity-7336442774650556416-nKND
(original source https://old.mermaid.town/@Kymberly/114635617736977394)
The author says it isnāt a requirements checklist, but it does have a column marked āunacceptableā, containing gems like
Calls Al coding assistants too risky
Has never tested Al-generated code
Relies only on Stack Overflow snippets
Angry goose meme: what was the ai code generator trained on, motherfucker?
Possibly OT, but fits in with the āfinance ruins everythingā motif weāve got going here:
My wife and I have been playing Stardew Valley again, and now the algorithms occasionally find us things like this
Yaāll seein this shit?
