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.)

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    2 天前

    second take from me. Here’s the full tweet:

    one of Earth’s top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides

    I’m going to read this as a joke because he didn’t end it with a period, and he is secretly beefing with aella

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      1 天前

      Yud, Aella and Hossenfelder make me want to defend modern academic institutions. Granted, that’s not nearly as impressive as Scott Aaronson getting me to sympathize with a cop, but it’s still an achievement.

    • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      1 天前

      After moving out at 17, Aella briefly attended college in northern Idaho but ran out of money after a semester.

      Aella already has better credentials than EY

        • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          20 小时前

          well it’ll become apparent during first attempts at writing a paper that requires them, but it can be a very long time if subject is dense enough

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        1 天前

        Both follow-up tweets end in periods, so I guess he transitioned to being completely serious 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a missing period means a joke, a present period means he’s serious, and partial periodization means that he’s typing with one hand.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      2 天前

      Ah more anti-intellectualism from the proto cult leader.

      This does mean, as the standards are so low, that we all have a phd on Rationalism.