41

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.

Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

For real, I can’t find info about this. Can you share a source?

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here’s the video.

You can look up the "Creative Programmers" mentioned in the description too.

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, it doesn’t look good. Both artists are shilling NFTs on their personal profile but only one of them, Ciro Negroni, is openly pro AI. The studio site, weirdcore.tv does have some folio projects credited as being with AI visuals and they also have studio NFT projects. They do seem to specialise in lots of different styles of digital glitch art.

It doesn’t look good. Especially the lack of questions about AI in the official The Smile tweet thread announcing the video

Did I say it doesn’t look good?

Edit: I’d like to know https://x.com/fasterandworse/status/1841878497662283978

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

Well to be fair, this kind of weird picture melding is the correct way to use the technology. Though it's hardly groundbreaking at this point is it, I feel I've seen it a million times.

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

this was what I was thinking, too. and this particular video doesn’t even seem to make great use of it? it’s extremely milquetoast, doesn’t vary at all, and doesn’t even do anything visually interesting more than once (if that, and that it then just repeats and repeats and repeats and…)

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
41 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1480 readers
277 users here now

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.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS