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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 (awful.systems)

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

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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.)

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

I don’t think we’ve ever talked about it but AI is shitting all over the tattoo industry. Listening to a podcast rn (Beneath the Skin) and the hosts are really not keen on the LLMs lol.

(I’m a week out from my next one woo)

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Amazon unveils AI-Powered AR glasses for delivery drivers.

The response I've seen from actual drivers has been somewhere between "eh? I guess?" and "fuck you, pay me".

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[–] rook@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

I know nfts are old news now, but:

lol, decentralisation.

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A screenshot of some boardape nfts on opensea. All the actual images are replaced with an error message saying “this nft is not available due to an ongoing AWS outage”

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Promptfondlers are biologically incapable of telling good from bad, video game edition.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

Found the original promptfondler behind this a couple hours ago.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 5 points 4 weeks ago

@blakestacey

The video game equivalent of

40 year old virgin sand GIF

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Via a prev sneer, here's a Bloomberg post about call center workers being accused of being LLMs:

https://archive.is/K3N51

I used to work in a call-center adjacent industry and the amount of crap some employers used to make sure their workers sounded as much as robots as possible was astounding.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Morally, attacking the poor and downtrodden through polluting the world with AI is abhorrent, and anyone doing this should be permanently barred from working at any charity.

Practically, the sight of blatant AI-generated poverty porn is going to drive people away from giving to these charities, damaging their ability to do good.

[–] rook@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I see there’s at least one big fan of Moldbug still trying to implement his perfect neofeudal state.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building/

My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?

If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? Not control, but a strong influence … I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.

I’m sure this is fine, largely because he is an idiot. Probably bad news for other shareholders and customers though.

Anyone else getting “when I die, you’re all joining me in my mausoleum” vibes from musk?

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

openai released their spyware browser and it is... not good

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago

US engaging in quantum socialism:

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143

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