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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Habsburgs are good, actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41497419
I think Zizek is a super nice guy, despite disagreeing with 90% of what he says. I still think heās a great person with a nice soul.
The sentences these people post, man.
Anyway, itās great that he chose a cryptofascist crank who tries to pass himself off as a communist to show how open minded he is. Damn, you respect Habsburg, Orban and Zizek, let me guess how you feel about Putin.
Anyway, itās great that he chose a cryptofascist crank who tries to pass himself off as a communist
oh thank fuck Iām not the only one who knows about Zizek. thereās still so many people whose first introduction to leftist thought was The Pervertās Guide to Film on Netflix or whatever who never went back to check if Zizek was maybe a fucking asshole
Iām still blissfully clueless as to who zizek is
although saying that here now might cause an accidental crash course
I mean, my awareness extends as far as āpure sniff ideologyā and basically no context. Definitely heard some extremely bad takes on Ukraine though, which has quickly turned into my number one red flag for āactually pretty okay with Nazis when you get down to itā
EDIT: special thanks to skillissuer below for the correction re: Ukraine takes. Please trust his actual sources over my half-remembered reddit nonsense.
my bias against self-described hegelians is reinforced, bonus points for lacanism. every single one iāve heard of in some detail (not that iām looking for them) turns out to be a crank in some capacity. n=3
wait wdym as extremely bad takes on ukraine, because some of these iāve been able to find before going to darknet (second page of startpage search results) seem rather sane
If we pressure Ukraine now, demanding peace, it will mean creating space for Russian expansion.
https://www.instagram.com/slavojzizeks/p/C8g0yYRvLFL/
The paradox of this combination is that what presents itself as a principled stance ā peace at any price ā is a mask for the worst ethnic egotism and ignorance of the otherās suffering: are we aware that, although Ukraine has defended its independence, it has already lost up to a third of its population through emigration, kidnapping and death?
It is not just with respect to the oligarchs and the cultural conservatives that Ukraine must go to war with itself.
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/ukraine-must-go-to-war-with-itself
We now know what the call to allow Putin to āsave his faceā means. It means accepting not a minor territorial compromise in Donbas but Putinās imperial ambition.
What is absolutely unacceptable for a true leftist today is not only to support Russia but also to make a more āmodestā neutral claim that the left is divided between pacifists and supporters of Ukraine, and that one should treat this division as a minor fact which shouldnāt affect the leftās global struggle against global capitalism.
ā¦huh. Your sources are certainly more credible than my half-remembered reddit posts. I think I was probably mistaken on this one.
new idea: get the morewrongers to work themselves up about āontologically, is āsuperhuman predictionā the same class as superintelligence?ā
why? oh, yāknow, just things:
Percentages are cheating, especially percentages below 50.
Iāll predict a 49% chance Mont Blanc erupts tomorrow, covering half of Europe in chocolate.
As zero cannot exist as a chance, there is a chance this will happen.
Thatās why I vote 3rd party in presidential elections.
how to spot the US angst:
Ok this might be a bit petty of me but, yes this HN comment right here officer.
A group pwns an entire TLD with a fair amount of creativity, and this person is like (paraphrasing) āif you think thatās bad news just wait until you hear AIs can find trivial XSS and SQL injections š±ā.
Aside: have I ever mentioned here that you should really stick with .com / .net / .org / certain country domains? Because this sort of stuff is exactly why. Awful.systems can get a pass since the domain name is just that good.
Fuck it, weāre going back to bang paths. ficix!hetzner!awful!self please add support for this.
you have no idea how much Iāve been tempted to do UUCP
Friend-of-the-show JZW rips a YC backed startup a new one:
the very first thing I thought of as I started reading this is this track by a small ZA artist I discovered a while back, and I started it to play as backtrack for reading
Late response but cool song recommendation :)
haha yeah itās quite fun
Why are you saying that LLMs are useless when theyāre useless only most of the time
Iām sorry but Iāve been circling my room for an hour now seeing this and I need to share it with people lest I go insane.
that dude advocates LLM code autocomplete and heās a cryptographer
like that codeās gotta be a bug bounty bonanza
