Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    Tom Murphy VIIā€™s new LLM typesetting system, as submitted to SIGBOVIK. I watched this 20 minute video all through, and given my usual time to kill for video is 30 seconds you should take that as the recommendation it is.

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      The scales have fallen from my eyes
      How could've blindness struck me so
      LLM's for sure bring more than lies
      They can conjure more than mere woe
      
      All of us now, may we heed the sign
      Of all text that will come to align
      
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      Watched this without sound, as I had opened the tab and wasnā€™t paying attention, but did you really just suggest a video where they are drinking out of a clearly empty cup? I closed it in disgust.

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        Thereā€™s a bit in the beginning where he talks about how actors handling and drinking from obviously weightless empty cups ruins suspension of disbelief, so Iā€™m assuming itā€™s a callback.

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          Yes, I was making a joke, as somebody who also gets unreasonably annoyed by those things. I felt seen.