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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

In case you missed it, a couple sneers came out against AI from mainstream news outlets recently - CNN's put out an article titled "Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown", whilst the New York Times recently proclaimed "The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes".

You want my take on this development, I'm with Ed Zitron on this - this is a sign of an impending sea change. Looks like the bubble's finally nearing its end.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In other news, Jazza's AI-generated cousin is back to continue pretending to be an actual artist. This time, its by actively denigrating the works of Studio Ghibli:

Unsurprisingly, he is getting raked over the coals by basically everyone. He's also having an utter meltdown in the replies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By "better", he means "more fuckable".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Do you think he knows that "inspired" and "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090" are not the same word?

Edit: oh no I read the replies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

LW: 23AndMe is for sale, maybe the babby-editing people might be interested in snapping them up?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MciRCEuNwctCBrT7i/23andme-potentially-for-sale-for-less-than-usd50m

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@gerikson @techtakes

Babby-edit.com: Give us your embryos for an upgrade. (Customers receive an Elon embryo regardless of what they want.)

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

just remembered why I created an account here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer

become a vibe coder for a debt collection startup! but only if you're willing to pull 15+ hour days for 80k a year

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

For some reason it's on brand for HN to have a discussion of different dash widths stick on the front page more than 24h

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

Extra spice and relevance for the observation that GenAI text apparently has a lot of em-dashes in it, so add that to the frequency of the word "delve".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bill Gates, a man who is not needed for most things, suffers from projection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If only it were him that suffered from his projections and not everyone else.

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