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 so 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.)
a great sneer found in the wild:
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twitter screenshot
part one is a post by Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge), reads: āThis is going to come off as grumpy, but it needs to be said: Stop showing people your junk. Everyone can build junk with Al now. Nobody else wants to see your junk. Weāre not kindred spirits just because we both build junk. Play with your junk strictly in private. Thank you.ā
part two is a reply by kitze āļøtinkerer.club (@thekitze), reads: ācounterpoint: ā, showing a link card that points at Yeggeās Gas Town post
Objection! Gas Town isnāt junk, itās a memetic weapon trying to convince anyone with actual engineering sensibilities to abandon the industry and move to their cabin in the woods to become professional manifesto writers, thus clearing the path for AI inevitability.
piiiiisssssssss
My fucking eyes canāt they see how ugly their shit always is?
Sloppers hold up the ugliest, most artistically meritless shit while going āOh yeah? what about this!?ā
eww that tinkerer club page gives me serious crypto bro vibes
Marketed as āvibe code all your own toolsā and one of the suggestions is 1Password/Bitwarden. I mean they can feel free to fafo with that one and let me know when youāve been fired because all your passwords were 1) lost when Claude apologetically deleted the prod db or 2) got exfiltrated and used to steal all your ip because your vibe coded password app is insecure as all hellā¦