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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 4 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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 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 soo 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. Also, happy 4th July in advance...I guess.)

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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

submitted 14 hours ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" (futurism.com)

submitted 6 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

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Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble (xeiaso.net)

submitted 6 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech (deadsimpletech.com)

submitted 1 week ago by nfultz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Another response to Ptacek.

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Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

submitted 1 week ago by nfultz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

82 comments fedilink

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 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 soo 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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Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit] (gemini.google.com)

submitted 1 week ago by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

No siree, no RAG, no trickery with training a model to transform the code while maintaining identical expression graph, it just goes from word-salading all over the place on a natural language task, to outputting 100 lines of coherent code.

Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.

(Also, as usual with AI it is not always that good. sometimes it fucks up the code, too).

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We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first

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podcast probably tomorrow

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AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market (pivot-to-ai.com)