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.)
New piece from Brian Merchant, focusing on Muskās double-tapping of 18F. In lieu of going deep into the article, hereās my personal sidenote:
Iāve touched on this before, but I fully expect that the coming years will deal a massive blow to techās public image, expecting them to be viewed as āincompetent fools at best and unrepentant fascists at worstā - and with the wanton carnage DOGE is causing (and indirectly crediting to AI), I expect Muskās governmental antics will deal plenty of damage on its own.
18Fās demise in particular will probably also deal a blow on its own - 18F was āa diverse team staffed by people of color and LGBTQ workers, and publicly pushed for humane and inclusive policiesā, as Merchant put it, and its demise will likely be seen as another sign of tech revealing its nature as a Nazi bar.