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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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    bluemonday1984@awful.systems
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    #107

    Chatbots are a cognitive hazard, part infinity: AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

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    • o7___o7@awful.systemsO o7___o7@awful.systems

      We’re doing revolutionary calendars, huh?

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      froztbyte@awful.systems
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      #108

      the only revolutions these people are capable of is spinning their office chairs

      …when it’s one on a swivel instead of some fixed-position ergo thing they acquired after reading a thotleader blogpost

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      • blakestacey@awful.systemsB blakestacey@awful.systems

        The post names Joscha Bach as someone Aella tried to exclude.

        You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to Aella

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        cinnasverses@awful.systems
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        #109

        Its prudent to be skeptical of anonymous Internet posts, but its also prudent to read a Leverage staffer on how her boss “had three long-term consensual relationships with women employed by Leverage Research or affiliated organizations”, close the tab, and make a note to never have anything to do with anyone from that organization in the future.

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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          gerikson@awful.systems
          wrote last edited by
          #110

          slop “fact checking” is coming to LW:

          Link Preview Image
          Shortform — LessWrong

          Comment by lc - Large language models are so good at this point that I think it might be a good idea for them to fact check LessWrong posts.

          favicon

          (www.lesswrong.com)

          wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok

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          • Jack Riddle[Any/All]J Jack Riddle[Any/All]

            the screenshot is very very clearly LLM generated right? This is so insanely stupid

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            lurker@awful.systems
            wrote last edited by
            #111

            huh, you’re right. usually this channel provides a source for the things they share, but this time there’s nothing.

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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              lurker@awful.systems
              wrote last edited by
              #112

              behold, ruthless goal-seeking behaviour

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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                nfultz@awful.systems
                wrote last edited by
                #113

                AI Jobs Apocalypse is Here | UnHerd h/t naked capitalism

                feels a bit critihype, idk

                So, what happens to American politics when the script is flipped, and we enter a new era of white-collar precarity? We can look back to the recent past and recall that, after the 2008 recession, it was young men who got especially angry. Downwardly mobile urban millennials drifted toward radical Left-wing politics, including the Occupy Wall Street movement and both Sanders campaigns, myself included. In the current decade, the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers. But an AI-driven white-collar apocalypse has no equivalent of the American Rescue Plan around the corner, and it will move faster through institutions because the people experiencing it — journalists, lawyers, policy staffers — are the ones who produce political legitimacy itself. When that class loses faith in the system’s stability, the political climate may quickly become volatile.

                As I get older I am more and more disturbed by the selective memory of the GFC; no mention of the tea party or the fallout from the austerity measures they pushed in the middle of the country; no mention how the bailout saved banks not homes. The Tea Party won, not Occupy, and the current government is doing things beyond the Koch’s wildest dreams.

                If and when there is a crash, these dumbass CEOs deserve /nothing/. Let them lose their vacation houses. And, maybe grow some balls and send the fraudsters to jail where they belong.

                sigh

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                • N nfultz@awful.systems

                  AI Jobs Apocalypse is Here | UnHerd h/t naked capitalism

                  feels a bit critihype, idk

                  So, what happens to American politics when the script is flipped, and we enter a new era of white-collar precarity? We can look back to the recent past and recall that, after the 2008 recession, it was young men who got especially angry. Downwardly mobile urban millennials drifted toward radical Left-wing politics, including the Occupy Wall Street movement and both Sanders campaigns, myself included. In the current decade, the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers. But an AI-driven white-collar apocalypse has no equivalent of the American Rescue Plan around the corner, and it will move faster through institutions because the people experiencing it — journalists, lawyers, policy staffers — are the ones who produce political legitimacy itself. When that class loses faith in the system’s stability, the political climate may quickly become volatile.

                  As I get older I am more and more disturbed by the selective memory of the GFC; no mention of the tea party or the fallout from the austerity measures they pushed in the middle of the country; no mention how the bailout saved banks not homes. The Tea Party won, not Occupy, and the current government is doing things beyond the Koch’s wildest dreams.

                  If and when there is a crash, these dumbass CEOs deserve /nothing/. Let them lose their vacation houses. And, maybe grow some balls and send the fraudsters to jail where they belong.

                  sigh

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                  sc_griffith@awful.systems
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                  #114

                  unherd is a fash publication. to me this comes across as an AI take-ified rewrite of a 1994 luttwak essay i read recently, an endorsement of a revival of italian style fascism: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n07/edward-luttwak/why-fascism-is-the-wave-of-the-future

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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                    lurker@awful.systems
                    wrote last edited by
                    #115

                    New “AI is not a bubble” video just dropped https://youtu.be/wDBy2bUICQY a lot of skeptical comments pointing out the flaws in this argument while the creator tries to defend themselves with mostly mediocre lines

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                    • N nfultz@awful.systems

                      AI Jobs Apocalypse is Here | UnHerd h/t naked capitalism

                      feels a bit critihype, idk

                      So, what happens to American politics when the script is flipped, and we enter a new era of white-collar precarity? We can look back to the recent past and recall that, after the 2008 recession, it was young men who got especially angry. Downwardly mobile urban millennials drifted toward radical Left-wing politics, including the Occupy Wall Street movement and both Sanders campaigns, myself included. In the current decade, the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers. But an AI-driven white-collar apocalypse has no equivalent of the American Rescue Plan around the corner, and it will move faster through institutions because the people experiencing it — journalists, lawyers, policy staffers — are the ones who produce political legitimacy itself. When that class loses faith in the system’s stability, the political climate may quickly become volatile.

                      As I get older I am more and more disturbed by the selective memory of the GFC; no mention of the tea party or the fallout from the austerity measures they pushed in the middle of the country; no mention how the bailout saved banks not homes. The Tea Party won, not Occupy, and the current government is doing things beyond the Koch’s wildest dreams.

                      If and when there is a crash, these dumbass CEOs deserve /nothing/. Let them lose their vacation houses. And, maybe grow some balls and send the fraudsters to jail where they belong.

                      sigh

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                      o7___o7@awful.systems
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                      #116

                      One ray of sunahine: when the bubble pops, there will be quite a few “billionaires” will become millionaires, and they will find that their friends in government and the media will suddenly be much less interested in being around them at all.

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                      • L lurker@awful.systems

                        behold, ruthless goal-seeking behaviour

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                        Sailor Sega Saturn
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                        Apparently this sort of machine learning training pitfall I learned about a decade go in an undergraduate level class that I was like halfway paying attention to in a party school is now evidence of the impending AI apocalypse.

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                        • L lurker@awful.systems

                          behold, ruthless goal-seeking behaviour

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                          swlabr@awful.systems
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                          Wow, that highlighting really emphasises the insidious, nefarious behaviour. This is only a hop, skip, and jump away from, what was it again? Rhomboid? Rheumatoid bactothefuture?

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                          • S swlabr@awful.systems

                            Wow, that highlighting really emphasises the insidious, nefarious behaviour. This is only a hop, skip, and jump away from, what was it again? Rhomboid? Rheumatoid bactothefuture?

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                            yournetworkishaunted@awful.systems
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                            diamondoid. None of the derivatives I can come up with sound anywhere near as dumb as the actual word.

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                            • Y yournetworkishaunted@awful.systems

                              diamondoid. None of the derivatives I can come up with sound anywhere near as dumb as the actual word.

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                              swlabr@awful.systems
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                              Derpadoid Burpateria

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                                behold, ruthless goal-seeking behaviour

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                                froztbyte@awful.systems
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                                rolls 1, 1

                                I behold the paperclip calculator, and tremble in fear

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                                • Jack Riddle[Any/All]J Jack Riddle[Any/All]

                                  the screenshot is very very clearly LLM generated right? This is so insanely stupid

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                                  lurker@awful.systems
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                                  #122

                                  Update: the screenshot is unfortunately not LLM generated, found the full version on Reddit SneerClub https://web4.ai/

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                                    Update: the screenshot is unfortunately not LLM generated, found the full version on Reddit SneerClub https://web4.ai/

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                                    Jack Riddle[Any/All]
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                                    #123

                                    good basilisk save us all. so they built a script for their chatbot that allows it to purchase more chatbots? seems like a great use of money. Also, what’s with the insanely placed emdashes? did conway write this for him or has his brain been rotted so much that he writes like an LLM? large parts seem human-written at least…

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                                    • C cinnasverses@awful.systems

                                      Posting for archival and indexing purposes: u/GorillasAreForEating found an Urbit post titled “Quis cancellat ipsos cancellores?” which complains that Aella takes it on herself to exclude people and movements from the broader LessWrong/Effective Altruist community. The poster says that Aella was the anonymous person who pushed CFAR to finally do something about Brent Dill, because she was roommates with “Persephone.” He or she does not quite say that any of the accusations were untrue, just that “an anonymous, unverified report” says that some details were changed by an editor, and that her Medium post was of “dramatically lower fidelity, but higher memetic virulence” than Brent’s buddies investigating him behind closed doors (Dill posted about domming a 16-year-old who he met when she was 15 and he was ~27). The poster accuses Aella of using substances and BDSM games to blur the line of consent.

                                      The post names Joscha Bach as someone Aella tried to exclude. We recently talked abut Bach’s attempt to get Jeffrey Epstein to fund an event where our friends would speak.

                                      Often, people in messed-up situations point at a very similar situation and say “at least we are not like that.” I hope that all of these people find friends who can give them perspective that none of these communities are healthy or just. Whether you are in to bull sessions or polyamory, there are healthy communities to explore in any medium-sized city!

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                                      bigmuffn69@awful.systems
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                                      #124

                                      At least we’re not like that

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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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

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                                        antifuchs@awful.systems
                                        wrote last edited by
                                        #125

                                        Good news, everyone’s favorite emacs is using AI now: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

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                                        • N nfultz@awful.systems

                                          AI Jobs Apocalypse is Here | UnHerd h/t naked capitalism

                                          feels a bit critihype, idk

                                          So, what happens to American politics when the script is flipped, and we enter a new era of white-collar precarity? We can look back to the recent past and recall that, after the 2008 recession, it was young men who got especially angry. Downwardly mobile urban millennials drifted toward radical Left-wing politics, including the Occupy Wall Street movement and both Sanders campaigns, myself included. In the current decade, the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers. But an AI-driven white-collar apocalypse has no equivalent of the American Rescue Plan around the corner, and it will move faster through institutions because the people experiencing it — journalists, lawyers, policy staffers — are the ones who produce political legitimacy itself. When that class loses faith in the system’s stability, the political climate may quickly become volatile.

                                          As I get older I am more and more disturbed by the selective memory of the GFC; no mention of the tea party or the fallout from the austerity measures they pushed in the middle of the country; no mention how the bailout saved banks not homes. The Tea Party won, not Occupy, and the current government is doing things beyond the Koch’s wildest dreams.

                                          If and when there is a crash, these dumbass CEOs deserve /nothing/. Let them lose their vacation houses. And, maybe grow some balls and send the fraudsters to jail where they belong.

                                          sigh

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                                          soyweiser@awful.systems
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                                          #126

                                          the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers.

                                          Iirc that is not as often true as people claim it is. But yeah, not gonna click unherd to see if they have a source. Because blergh unherd.

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