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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025 (awful.systems)

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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 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 soo 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For a fun 20 minutes or so, I recommend going through the recent enron “revival”. (It’s all satire)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

25475 O Jan 08 Duke University ( 42K) Help Us Evaluate New Personalized AI Learning Tool

groan

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

OT: I remember linux on the desktop as a meme, but like, when did this actually happen? I don’t think ai noticed.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Apparently, the OpenMandriva folk (the inheritors of the venerable mandrake/mandriva Linux distro) are now best buddies with Bryan Lunduke (right wing tech grifter and q-anon fan) are decrying the left wing bias of Linux projects with a hilarious “wokeOS shell”

Archive of openmandriva forum post: https://archive.is/2025.01.11-001057/https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/came-here-from-lunduke/5516/1

Lovely juxtaposition of “let’s stick it to the gay fags” and “we’re accepting of everyone and there’s no hate here”. Seems like a classy community all round. It’s a little sad to see how mandrake ended up, but there you go.

WokeOS here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250110234818/https://lindev.ch/wokeos.cpp

It’s pretty tedious and unimaginative. No idea who lindev are.

(eta: wasn’t me who originally found this, but I’m never quite sure whether it’s ok to include sources for this sort of thing given the subject. on the other hand, the op has it as public post that’s been boosted a bunch of times, so here it is: https://tech.lgbt/@GeopJr/113807022917800887)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yud is against seed oils, right? Or was that Siskind? I have a vague memory of the topic coming up but was unable to substantiate it in the 22 seconds of archive-searching that I was willing to do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Its Yud I think. As someone from Canola-land this shit really grinds my gears.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

LessWrongers find cool reception for translated HPMOR copies sent to Russia's highest IQ youth

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onyiPaxnmiDdHn7SR/no-one-has-the-ball-on-1500-russian-olympiad-winners-who-ve

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it could be very valuable to alignment-pill these people.

Zoom and enhance!

alignment-pill

The inability to hear what their own words sound like is terminal. At this stage, we can only provide palliative care, i.e., shoving into lockers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Man, now I'm bummed that I don't have a cult trying to distribute translations of my Daria fic in which Jane becomes Hell Priest of the Cenobites.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

big sending bibles to north korea energy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe EAs should ditch malaria nets and start subsidizing bum ticklers

disclaimer

(not a claim made by linked OP)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Re: disclaimer

Not OP indeed, butt ...

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