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 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 soo 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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    6 days ago

    FastCompany: ā€œIn Appleā€™s new ads for AI tools, weā€™re all total idiotsā€

    Itā€™s interesting that not even Apple, with all their marketing knowledge, can come up with anything convincing why users might need ā€œApple Intelligenceā€[1]. These new ads are not quite as terrible as that previous ā€œCrushā€ 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 canā€™t find a good consumer pitch for GenAI crap, I donā€™t think anyone can.

    [1] Iā€™d like to express support for this post from Jeff Johnson to call it ā€œiSlopā€

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      [1] Iā€™d like to express support for this post from Jeff Johnson to call it ā€œiSlopā€

      Its simple, its catchy, and it turns Appleā€™s own naming scheme against them, Iā€™m fully in support of this.