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.)

  • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    This isn’t a particularly novel stupid take, but it was made by a bluesky engineer, and it is currently dunking-on-bluesky season so here we are.

    “If you imagine that an ai is a person, then saying bad things about it is bigotry”

    Welp, they’ve got me there. Guess I’ll never say anything bad about anything again, because it is racism, if you think about it.

    https://bsky.app/profile/hailey.at/post/3m2f66lgh2c2v

    alt text

    A bluesky post by dystopiabreaker.xyz

    i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

    And two replies by hailey.at

    an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you’d agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing “dna” with “bits” doesn’t make it ok

    if you’re writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go “oh that’s fine to say because it’s not a real person” (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      ‘some of the most bigoted things’

      You mean stuff like ‘no this is stupid, wtf is wrong with you’ or ‘lol, look they really think LLMs are alive’ stuff like that? The worst I saw (granted I didn’t look very hard) was ‘ok boomer’.

      Of course actual meanings of words mean nothing to AI fans.

      (Also, thing which is a personal gripe, the skeet before the ‘bigotry neuron’ has 2 images in it, without alt text. If you are going to pretend to value progressive values, at least put in some effort).

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Ah, the beauty of the fundamental theorem of concern-troll linguistics. If you can change the words in a sentence so that the new sentence is racist, the original must be as well. Example:

      Aaron: The weather is just ok.

      Baron: OMG. I can’t believe you just said that. What if I changed the noun and adjective, like this: “<ethnic group> is <negative adjective>”. Go home and think about what you did.

    • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      (an exception can be made for people repurposing real-world slurs and putting a techy spin on them. fuck directly off with “wireback” and similar shit)

      • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        i read that there was one based on a mexican-slur, but i couldn’t think of it

        spent weeks trying to rhyme “wet” with something, couldn’t come up with it, damn i guess i’m not a poet at least i know it

        “wire” — fuck me that is so lazy