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.)
Want to feel depressed? Over 2,000 Wikipedia articles, on topics from Morocco to Natalie Portman to Sinn FĆ©in, are corrupted by ChatGPT. And thatās just the obvious ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A"utm_source%3Dchatgpt.com"&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=8ops8b9qb8qmw8by39k248jyp
Itās starting to feel like I need to download a snapshot of Wikipedia now before it gets worse.
Hereās their page of instructions, written as usual by the children who really liked programming the family VCR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/
Itās⦠suboptimal, but itās about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).
Itās updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.
I second kiwix. Itās dead easy for managing and making copies of wiki images.
low background steel, maybe?