TechTakes

[Everyone disliked that]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK89SGSEf1s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251216-amazon-discovers-ai-sucks-at-automated-tv-recaps - podcast

time: 4 min 46 sec

no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaBAU8g50A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world - podcast

time: 9 min 03 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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 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. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

to shake down everyone else for licenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbVPmlfUqk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251212-why-disney-just-put-1b-into-openai - podcast

time: 5 min 30 sec

Boom Supersonic will totally make this happen, this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkFdqAbpUc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251211-lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-gas-turbines - podcast

time: 6 min 26 sec

A Harpers contributer does the legwork and gets a head start on deflating the next dumb hype cycle.

I was only following the bot’s orders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPh9dirnYeA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251210-department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot - podcast

time: 5 min 29 sec

Microsoft denies everything! Except the actual claim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmwVsxYkhwI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251209-microsoft-cuts-ai-sales-quotas-stock-drops-3 - podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec

Adobe Express: ‘Real sexy boss, like you asked’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZT5NulzUVM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251208-la-unified-school-district-forces-unfiltered-ai-on-kids - podcast

time: 6 min 28 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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 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.)

‘a small UI experiment’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCspbG5K57k&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251205-google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed - podcast

time: 4 min 18 sec

404 Media develops a skeptical take on an unhinged conference presentation.

TLDR: IAEA appears to be cooked. Peak lunacy is on display.

The comments are full of quality sneers.

Edit: The whole presentation feels like the product of an extended manic episode, it's comoleyely ungrounded from the realities of operating a commercial nuclear power plant.

Micron makes ‘difficult decision’ to take the dumptrucks full of money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNSPL6BRuY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-ai-screws-us-again-memory-shortages-crucial-to-shut-down - podcast

time: 6 min 09 sec

‘built for user trust’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3zjpTOcY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-googles-antigravity-ai-vibe-coder-wipes-your-hard-disk - podcast

time: 5 min 57 sec

Your ‘cognitive sparring partner’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJZcl_eRfU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251202-lawyers-find-more-work-cleaning-up-after-ai-bots - podcast

time: 4 min 11 sec

Science fiction is fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_SaKXM82yg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251201-ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work - podcast

time: 9 min 27 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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 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.

(December's finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Factor Fexcectorn on the autism bicycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUY3LKFeg14&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251128-medical-frymblal-natures-latest-ai-generated-paper - podcast

time: 6 min 32 sec

Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62Q8tHV2c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures - podcast

time: 6 min 58 sec

The real customer: scaremongering security vendors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FojZ48S9hHA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251126-ai-for-evil-hacked-by-wormgpt - podcast

time: 7 min 01 sec

AI agents running nuclear experiments? It’ll be fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJkroMDDhvk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251125-white-house-us-to-fabricate-science-with-chatbots - podcast

time: 8 min 07 sec

Not even poetically sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIDt3xATVw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251124-dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-science - podcast

time: 5 min 46 sec

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 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.)

and you thought Windows was supposed to run software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeNFkZJVxc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-whoops-microsofts-windows-ai-agent-platform-lets-in-malware - podcast

time: 4 min 27 sec