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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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.

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What are the chances that--somewhere deep in the bowels of Clearwater, FL--some poor soul has been ordered to develop an AI replicant of L. Ron Hubbard?

There is a substantial corpus.

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

the only worthwhile use of LLMs: endlessly prompting the L Ron Hubbard chatbot with Battlefield Earth reviews as a form of acausal torture

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

look at me i am the basilisk now

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

How would you audit a computer? Would they add USB-C ports to the cans?

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

cat /dev/thetans > ~/genius.txt

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

pours a bag of powdered mdma all over the computer "look at it! it's drenched in e! PURGE!"

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Doesn't have his body tethans so would be a different person or something.

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

They've had enough problems with the guy who claimed to be the reincarnation of LRH.

I reckon Miscavige wouldn't want a robo-LRH as it could challenge his power within the organization.

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