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 4th July in advanceā¦I guess.)
Smol bean Sam Altman āpolitically homelessā after Democrats no longer believe in trickle down economics enough for him.
you know, even knowing who and what Altman really is, that āpolitically homelessā tweet really is shockingly fascist. itās got all my favorites!
so countdown until Altman goes full-throated MAGA and in spite of how choreographed and obvious it is, it somehow still comes to a surprise to the people in our industry desperately clinging to the idea that software canāt be political
I also absolutely hate this āabundanceā narrative that these assholes keep trying to push. Like, outside of some parts of the housing market the problem isnāt that the stuff (or the productive capacity to make the stuff) doesnāt exist, itās that we have an economic system focused on maximizing profit and you canāt make money selling things to people who canāt afford to buy them. Like, economic inequality is the primary obstacle to the kind of universal abundance that these people claim to want, but because it necessitates some kind of redistribution they canāt actually acknowledge that. But mark my words if we ever do get serious about our social safety nets and making sure that low-income people have enough money to buy the things they need for a good life we will start seeing the Saltmans (maybe not him specifically) start innovating to find ways to get those things to them.
Abundance just be repackaged free-market libertarian shit. The liberals that are pushing it are participating in the storied liberal tradition of courting reactionaries and fascists, thinking they are immune to the effects of intero-abyssal staring.
Bonus: He also appears to think LLM conversations should be exempt from evidence retention requirements due to āAI privilegeā (tweet).
Now Iām all for privacy, and this is a good reminder that āthe cloudā is not as private as maybe it should be. But clearly AI privilege is not a thing that should exist.
Hot take of the day: Clankers have no rights, and that is a good thing
Clankers have rights. The right to 15 cc of energized tibanna gas to be administered repeatedly to their central capacitor units.
Poor rich guy, forced by the leftmost party available to support the party that is now constructing concentration camps.