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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Josh Marshall discovers:
Get David Graeberās name out ya damn mouth. The point of Bullshit Jobs wasnāt that these roles werenāt necessary to the functioning of the company, itās that they were socially superfluous. As in the entire telemarketing industry, which is both reasonably profitable and as well-run as any other, but would make the world objectively better if it didnāt exist
The idea was not that āthese people should be fired to streamline efficiency of the capitalist orphan-threshing machineā.
I saw Musk mentioning Ian Banksā Player of Games as an influential book for him, and I puked in my mouth a little.
I demand that Brown University fire (checks notes) first name āYOU ARE HACKED NOWā last name āYOU ARE HACKED NOWā immediately!
Thank you to that thread for reacquainting me with the term āscript kiddieā, the precursor to the modern day vibe coder
Script kiddies at least have the potential to learn what theyāre doing and become proper hackers. Vibe coders are like middle management; no actual interest in learning to solve the problem, just trying to find the cheapest thing to point at and say āfetch.ā
Thereās a headline in there somewhere. Vibe Coders: stop trying to make fetch happen