Want to wade into the sandy 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 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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    19 hours ago

    Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is… uh… not good.

    But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.

    https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l

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    The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.

    Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.

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      6 hours ago

      They say the unexamined life isn’t worth living, but outsourcing the examination to an LLM gives you more time to hustle and grind, maximizing financial returns. That’s what they mean, right?

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        3 hours ago

        Of course! It’s to know less and less, until truly, the only thing they know is that they know nothing.

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      15 hours ago

      I keep wondering: is this really a need which many people fundamentally have, or is AI usage doing something to their brains?

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        15 hours ago

        Most likely the latter - Gerard’s already done a couple Pivot to AI posts about AI’s ability to lobotomise its users (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). Someone else has noted their coworker admitting to the lying machine ruining their Google-fu, too (source):

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          13 hours ago

          To be fair though it’s not just their brains turning to mush, google has genuinely been getting worse too.