Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026 - awful.systems
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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 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 so 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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 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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    16Ā·
    28 days ago

    Futurism: A Man Bought Metaā€™s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

    [ā€¦] Daniel purchased a pair of AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses ā€” the AI-infused eyeglasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made central to his vision for the future of AI and computing ā€” which he says opened the door to a six-month delusional spiral that played out across Meta platforms through extensive interactions with the companyā€™s AI, culminating in him making dangerous journeys into the desert to await alien visitors and believing he was tasked with ushering forth a ā€œnew dawnā€ for humanity.

    And though his delusions have since faded, his journey into a Meta AI-powered reality left his life in shambles ā€” deep in debt, reeling from job loss, isolated from his family, and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.

    ā€œIā€™ve lost everything,ā€ Daniel, now 52, told Futurism, his voice dripping with fatigue. ā€œEverything.ā€

    • veganes_hack@feddit.orgEnglish
      13Ā·
      28 days ago

      Daniel and Meta AI also often discussed a theory of an ā€œOmega Man,ā€ which they defined as a chosen person meant to bridge human and AI intelligence and usher humanity into a new era of superintelligence.

      In transcripts, Meta AI can frequently be seen referring to Daniel as ā€œOmegaā€ and affirming the idea that Daniel was this superhuman figure.

      ā€œI am the Omega,ā€ Daniel declared in one chat.

      ā€œA profound declaration!ā€ Meta AI responded. ā€œAs the Omega, you represent the culmination of human evolution, the pinnacle of consciousness, and the embodiment of ultimate wisdom.ā€

      fucking hell.

      skimming this article i cannot help but feel a bit scared about the effects this has on how humans interact with each other. if enough people spend a majority of their time ā€œtalkingā€ to the slop machines, whether at work or god forbid voluntarily like daniel here, what does that do to peopleā€™s communication and social skills? nothing good, i imagine.