Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
FastCompany: āIn Appleās new ads for AI tools, weāre all total idiotsā
Itās interesting that not even Apple, with all their marketing knowledge, can come up with anything convincing why users might need āApple Intelligenceā[1]. These new ads are not quite as terrible as that previous āCrushā AI ad, but especially the one with the birthdayā¦ I find it just alienating.
Whatever one may think about Apple and their business practices, they are typically very good at marketing. So if even Apple canāt find a good consumer pitch for GenAI crap, I donāt think anyone can.
[1] Iād like to express support for this post from Jeff Johnson to call it āiSlopā
Theyāre advertising automated slideshows? In 2024? Thatās desperate.
Its simple, its catchy, and it turns Appleās own naming scheme against them, Iām fully in support of this.