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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026 (awful.systems)
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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. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

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[–] samvines@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Obligatory Anthropic IPO sneer subthread. They are trying to value themselves at $2Tn despite losing $80bn in the first half of the year. Anyone wanna hold my bag?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

According to my feed either anthropic is doing gloriously in inference and will soon be distilling its own models and undercutting even the chinese, or this is this is the most worrisome IPO in the history of finance and even convertible note holders are selling off their equity IOUs.

Choose your own reality ass timeline.

edit: link to sec.gov

from r/wallstreetbets of all places

[–] lurker@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

There is also this gem:

We encourage you, as a prospective owner of our stock, not to think of your purchase in purely transaction terms

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the s-1 that’s now public is also stunningly devoid of numbers. multiple inputs and areas that have literal empty-spaces gaps for numbers

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

They're backed into a corner where any number high enough to not be embarrassing for everyone involved is wildly unrealistic and any realistic number is going to be embarrassingly low. Trying to leave blanks so that someone else has to provide the actual numbers is basically the only option that doesn't involve committing lots of fraud.