Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
(Last substack for 2025 - may 2026 bring better tidings. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


Itās a treasure trove of hilariously bad takes.
Now I need some eye bleach. I canāt tell anymore if they are trolling or their brains are fully rotten.
Donāt forget the other comment saying that if you hate AI, youāre just āvice-signallingā and ātelegraphing your incuruosity (sic) far and wideā. AI is just like computer graphics in the 1960s, apparently. Weāre still in early days guys, weāve only invested trillions of dollars into this and stolen the collective works of everyone on the internet, and we donāt have any better ideas than throwing more
moneycompute at the problem! The scaling is still working guys, look at these benchmarks that we totally didnāt pay for. Look at these models doing mathematical reasoning. Actually donāt look at those, you canāt see them because theyāre proprietary and live in Canada.In other news, I drew a chart the other day, and I can confidently predict that my newborn baby is on track to weigh 10 trillion pounds by age 10.
EDIT: Rich Hickey has now disabled comments. Fair enough, arguing with promptfondlers is a waste of time and sanity.
these fucking people: āart is when picture matches words in little card next to pictureā