Want to wade into the sandy 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
not looking to start instance war or anything btw
iirc one of db0 admins is of this opinion which boils down to, in their case, that theyāre pro-ai but only if self-hosted (ie āyes, iām pro-ai, just not pro-the kind of ai that is actually used in 99.9% ai outputā). they join it with pro-piracy and anarchist positions and itās part of the reason why ai content is allowed on that instance. iirc itās not even consensus among their other admins
Like being pro-corporatism but only with regard to the breadcrumbs that fall off the oligarchsā tables.
We should start calling so-called open source models trickle-down AI.
When I steal the trickle-down lying machine, itās called a āpiss take.ā