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 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.)

    • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
      10Ā·
      3 months ago

      Their heart seems to be in the right place, police interrogation will be exploitative and brainwashy with no real consequences for the interrogators, but they sure chose the dumbest possible way to make their point:

      Despite the claims of AI evangelists, chatbots arenā€™t people and havenā€™t achieved sentience. The differences between a chatbot and a real person, however, make Heatonā€™s ability to elicit a false confession more disturbing, not less.

      ā€œChatGPT lacks many of the vulnerabilities that make people more likely to falsely confess ā€” like stress, fatigue, and sleep deprivation,ā€ said Saul Kassin, a professor emeritus at John Jay College who wrote the book on false confessions. ā€œIf ChatGPT can be induced into a false confession, then who isnā€™t vulnerable?ā€

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
        14Ā·
        3 months ago

        Detective: ā€œSo Magic Eight Ball. Iā€™m just gonna ask you outright. Were you the killer?ā€

        Magic Eight Ball: ā€œIt is decidedly so.ā€

        Some Guy: ā€œOh my god.ā€

        • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
          11Ā·
          3 months ago

          Only the magic eight ball has been rigged with sides reading:

          • Signs point to yes

          • It is decidedly so

          • Absolutely. Youā€™re so smart

          • Maybe. Good question!

          • There are strong reasons to think so

          • Lots of people are saying it

          • I can see why youā€™d ask that

          • There isnā€™t a strong consensus either way