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.)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    currently reading https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17570

    this is PsiQuantum, who are hot prospects to build an actually-quantum computer

    no, they have not yet factored 35

    but they are seriously planning qubits on a wafer and they think they can make a chip with 1m noisy qubits

    anyone know more about this? does that preprint (from last year) pass sniff tests?

    (my interest is journalistic, and also the first of these companies to factor 35 gets all the VC money ever)

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      I unfortunately know jack shit about quantum computing, so I can’t really weigh in, but I am rooting for them to pull it off, because PsiQuantum getting all the VC money ever means AI stops getting all the VC money ever

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        Hey, if we boil the oceans via quantum research, at least we might get some new physics out of it.