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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.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026 (awful.systems)
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The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier.

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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[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry I thought this updated comment was a better one 😅

For full transparency my original comment was a moan about how I can't decide whether Dario and co are confidence scammers or genuinely earnestly think that these next word prediction models are sentient due to all the brain damage, they've inflicted on themselves. FWIW Sama and friends are almost certainly in that first camp.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sama is a serial scammer, this is just the biggest scam he's managed to foster. He'll say whatever it takes to get the payout.

Dario is a true believer but I also think the prospect of $billions skews his judgement

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

The presence of billions of dollars under anyone's control destroys anyone's brains as their lives have all negative feedback removed, their surroundings become a reflection of their own preferences alone rather than bearing any information about the world, and their social connections become transactional and sycophantic.