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)

  • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
    23Ā·
    4 days ago

    This feels like quackery but I canā€™t find a goalā€¦

    But if they both hold up to scrutiny, this is perhaps the first time scientific evidence supporting this theory has been produced ā€“ as explored in my recent book.

    There it is.

    Edit: oh God itā€™s worse than I thought

    The web design almost makes me nostalgic for geocities fan pages. The citations that include himself ~10 times and the greatest hits of the last 50 years of physics, biology, and computer science, and Baudrillard of course. The journal of which this author is the lead editor and which includes the phrase ā€œinformation as the fifth state of matterā€ in the scope description.

    Oh God the deeper I dig the weirder it gets. Trying to confirm whether the Information Physics Institute is legit at all and found their list of members, one of whom listed their relevant expertise as ā€œWriter, Roleplayer, Singer, Actor, Gamerā€. Another lists ā€œHyperspace and machine elvesā€. One very honestly simply says ā€œN/Aā€

    I am not making this up.

    The Gmail address also lends the whole thing an air of authority. Like, youā€™ve already paid for the domain, guys.