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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems on awful.systems Open parent
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026
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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.



The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)


Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.



(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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Look I know Doctorow fails the gen-AI purity test but I think he’s making sense here


pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/
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jaschop in !techtakes
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Too narrow of a scope to be useful I think.


When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists. I think you can’t usefully tackle just the capitalism of the tech industry, if you don’t understand the wider system around it. I mean the VC that sloshes around in tech to raise up one bullshitteer after another comes from somewhere. Real estate, mining, fossil fuels, etc.
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.


This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.


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