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 youā€™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 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    4 months ago

    today in capitalism: landlords are using an AI tool to collude and keep rent artificially high

    But according to the U.S. governmentā€™s case, YieldStarā€™s algorithm can drive landlords to collude in setting artificial rates based on competitively-sensitive information, such as signed leases, renewal offers, rental applications, and future occupancy.

    One of the main developers of the software used by YieldStar told ProPublica that landlords had ā€œtoo much empathyā€ compared to the algorithmic pricing software.

    ā€œThe beauty of YieldStar is that it pushes you to go places that you wouldnā€™t have gone if you werenā€™t using it,ā€ said a director at a U.S. property management company in a testimonial video on RealPageā€™s website that has since disappeared.