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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Revealing just how forever online I am, but due to talking about the 'I like to watch' pornographic 9/11 fan music video from the Church of Euthanasia (I'm one of the two people who remembers this it seems) I discovered that the main woman behind this is now into AI-Doom. On the side of the paperclips. General content warnings all around (suicide, general bad taste etc), Chris was banned from a big festival (lowlands) in The Netherlands over the 9/11 video, after she was already booked (we are such a weird exclave of the USA, why book her, and then get rid of her over a 9/11 video in 2002?). Here is one of her conversations with chatgpt about the Churches anti-humanist manifesto. linked here not because I read it but just to show how AI is the idea that eats everything and I was amused by this weird blast from the past I think nobody recalls but now also into AGI.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fascinating, thank you. Love the Church of Euthanasia's antics but I'm not surprised, it's always looked very silly 'n' bad ideologically.

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

This database tracks legal decisions1 in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings.

While seeking to be exhaustive (117 cases identified so far), it is a work in progress and will expand as new examples emerge.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SSC attracts new kinds of witches.

Weird thought the idea of Rationalism was to draw people towards consensus reality.

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A reminder that AI slop tastes like boots.

https://old.reddit.com/user/Jackrobertsofficial/comments/1kklms1/hot_new_superhero_comic_swat_me_is_the_dirty_cop/?p=1

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Seems it was deleted. But due to reddit being reddit I noticed it pointed towards the 'Swat Man: Volume 1 Kindle Edition' amazon link. (Which I have not reproduced here)

E: ah nevermind aggressive adblockers deleted it on my end.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

nasb, hedgehog review on promptfans and learning

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