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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    molly is delighted that people might stop telling her to

    arguably we shoulda done it last year, but better late than never

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      I wouldnā€™t even call yā€™all late; public opinion towards AI is just starting to turn from optimism to mockery, so this feels like the perfect opportunity to normalize sneering in a way thatā€™s easier for folks without context to consume than SneerClub or TechTakes.

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        when I write the blockchain stuff, itā€™s like, hereā€™s one paragraph of the actual thing going on, and hereā€™s another thousand words to make it comprehensible

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          So much yak shaving involved with blockchain.

          Or any of this for that matter, I imagine you have already once answered the question of ā€˜how are you involved with twitter being bought by Muskā€™, ā€˜well in 1995, Scientology ā€¦ā€™