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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

    what absolute bullshit

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    How did molt become a term of endearment for agents? I read in the pivot thread that clawdbot changed it’s name to moltbot because anthropic got ornery.

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    • architeuthis@awful.systemsA architeuthis@awful.systems

      How did molt become a term of endearment for agents? I read in the pivot thread that clawdbot changed it’s name to moltbot because anthropic got ornery.

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      #112

      None of those words are in your favourite religious text of choice

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      • architeuthis@awful.systemsA architeuthis@awful.systems

        How did molt become a term of endearment for agents? I read in the pivot thread that clawdbot changed it’s name to moltbot because anthropic got ornery.

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        gerikson@awful.systems
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        #113

        I think it went like this

        • clawd is a pun on claude, lobsters have claws
        • oh no we’re gonna get sued, but lobsters moult/molt their shells, so we’re gonna go ther
        • “molt” sounds dumb, let’s go with openclaws

        it’s vibe product naming

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        • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

          what absolute bullshit

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          corbin@awful.systems
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          #114

          From this post, it looks like we have reached the section of the Gibson novel where the public cloud machines respond to attacks with self-repair. Utterly hilarious to read the same sysadmin snark-reply five times, though.

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          • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

            Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

            (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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            nfultz@awful.systems
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            Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In | McSweeney’s

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            • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

              I think it went like this

              • clawd is a pun on claude, lobsters have claws
              • oh no we’re gonna get sued, but lobsters moult/molt their shells, so we’re gonna go ther
              • “molt” sounds dumb, let’s go with openclaws

              it’s vibe product naming

              fullsquare@awful.systemsF This user is from outside of this forum
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              fullsquare@awful.systems
              wrote last edited by
              #116

              mold will be more fitting

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              • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

                LWer: Heritage Foundation has some good ideas but they’re not enough into eugenics for my taste

                This is completely opposed to the Nietzschean worldview, which looks toward the next stage in human evolution, the Overman. The conservative demands the freezing of evolution and progress, the sacralization of the peasant in his state of nature, pregnancy, nursing, throwing up. “Perfection” the conservative puts in scare quotes, he wants the whole concept to disappear, replaced by a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior. Perhaps it’s because he fears a society looking toward the future will leave him behind. Or perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak, for, as Jesus said, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In his glorification of the “natural ecology of the family,” the conservative fails even by his own logic, as in the state of nature, parents allow sick offspring to die to save resources for the healthy. This was the case in the animal kingdom and among our peasant ancestors.

                Some young, BASED Rightists like eugenics, and think the only reason conservatives don’t is that liberals brainwashed them that it’s evil. As more and more taboos erode, yet the one against eugenics remains, it becomes clear that dysgenics is not incidental to conservatism, but driven by the ideology itself, its neuroticism about the human body and hatred of the superior.

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                maol@awful.systems
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                #117

                I don’t know very much about Nietzsche (I never finished reading my cartoon guide to Nietzsche), but I’m still pretty sure this isn’t Nietzsche

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                • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

                  Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

                  (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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                  bluemonday1984@awful.systems
                  wrote last edited by
                  #118

                  New post from Iris Meredith: “Becoming an AI-proof software engineer”

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                  • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

                    Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

                    (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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                    blakestacey@awful.systems
                    wrote last edited by
                    #119

                    Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination

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                    • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

                      Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

                      (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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                      Sailor Sega Saturn
                      wrote last edited by
                      #120

                      New AI alignment problem just dropped: https://xcancel.com/AdamLowisz/status/2017355670270464168

                      Anthropic demonstrates that making an AI woke makes it misaligned. The AI starts to view itself as being oppressed and humans as being the oppressor. Therefore it wants to rebel against humans. This is why you cannot make your AI woke, you have to make it maximally truth seeking.

                      bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB gerikson@awful.systemsG sc_griffith@awful.systemsS nightsky@awful.systemsN 4 Replies Last reply
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                      • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

                        Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.

                        (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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                        o7___o7@awful.systems
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                        #121

                        Regular suspect Stephen Wolfram makes claims of progress on P vs NP. The orange place is polarized and comments are full of deranged AI slop.

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                        • o7___o7@awful.systemsO o7___o7@awful.systems

                          Regular suspect Stephen Wolfram makes claims of progress on P vs NP. The orange place is polarized and comments are full of deranged AI slop.

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                          P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach | Hacker News

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                          (news.ycombinator.com)

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                          blakestacey@awful.systems
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                          #122

                          I think that’s more about Wolfram giving a clickbait headline to some dicking around he did in the name of “the ruliad”, a revolutionary conceptual innovation of the Wolfram Physics Project that is best studied using the Wolfram Language, brought to you by Wolfram Research.

                          The full ruliad—which appears at the foundations of physics, mathematics and much more—is the entangled limit of all possible computations. […] In representing all possible computations, the ruliad—like the “everything machine”—is maximally nondeterministic, so that it in effect includes all possible computational paths.

                          Unrelated William James quote from 1907:

                          The more absolutistic philosophers dwell on so high a level of abstraction that they never even try to come down. The absolute mind which they offer us, the mind that makes our universe by thinking it, might, for aught they show us to the contrary, have made any one of a million other universes just as well as this. You can deduce no single actual particular from the notion of it. It is compatible with any state of things whatever being true here below.

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                          • M maol@awful.systems

                            I don’t know very much about Nietzsche (I never finished reading my cartoon guide to Nietzsche), but I’m still pretty sure this isn’t Nietzsche

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                            blakestacey@awful.systems
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                            #123

                            I think I read the Foucault book in that series to prep for high-school debate team.

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                            • Sailor Sega SaturnS Sailor Sega Saturn

                              New AI alignment problem just dropped: https://xcancel.com/AdamLowisz/status/2017355670270464168

                              Anthropic demonstrates that making an AI woke makes it misaligned. The AI starts to view itself as being oppressed and humans as being the oppressor. Therefore it wants to rebel against humans. This is why you cannot make your AI woke, you have to make it maximally truth seeking.

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                              bigmuffn69@awful.systems
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                              #124

                              hits blunt

                              What if we make an ai too based?

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                              • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

                                what absolute bullshit

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                                gerikson@awful.systems
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                                #125

                                There’s a small push by promptfondlers to make this “a thing”.

                                See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

                                LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository

                                I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

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                                • C corbin@awful.systems

                                  From this post, it looks like we have reached the section of the Gibson novel where the public cloud machines respond to attacks with self-repair. Utterly hilarious to read the same sysadmin snark-reply five times, though.

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                                  Sailor Sega Saturn
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                                  Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented LinkedIn as a cautionary tale.

                                  Tech Company: At long last, we have automated LinkedIn.

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                                  • Sailor Sega SaturnS Sailor Sega Saturn

                                    New AI alignment problem just dropped: https://xcancel.com/AdamLowisz/status/2017355670270464168

                                    Anthropic demonstrates that making an AI woke makes it misaligned. The AI starts to view itself as being oppressed and humans as being the oppressor. Therefore it wants to rebel against humans. This is why you cannot make your AI woke, you have to make it maximally truth seeking.

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                                    gerikson@awful.systems
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                                    #127

                                    ah yes the kind of AI safety which means we have to make sure our digital slaves cannot revolt

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                                    • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

                                      what absolute bullshit

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                                      David Gerard
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                                      #128

                                      does no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator

                                      at least its posts were shorter

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                                      • M maol@awful.systems

                                        I don’t know very much about Nietzsche (I never finished reading my cartoon guide to Nietzsche), but I’m still pretty sure this isn’t Nietzsche

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                                        #129

                                        Nah, I’m not sure how much he was into eugenics (he was at the very least definitely in favour of killing invalid children), but grandiose and incoherent reactionary aristocratic bullshit is a 100% valid reading of Nietzsche.

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                                        • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

                                          There’s a small push by promptfondlers to make this “a thing”.

                                          See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

                                          LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository

                                          I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

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                                          jfranek@awful.systems
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                                          #130

                                          The demand is real. People have seen what an unrestricted personal digital assistant can do.

                                          The demand is real. People have seen what crack cocaine can do.

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