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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I don't have the headspace to sneer it properly at this moment, but this article fucking goes places might even be worthy of its own techtakes post
That was one wild read even worse than I was expecting. Holy sexism Batman, the incel to tech pipeline is real.
I remember when a large part of the university experience was about meeting people, experiencing freedom from home for the first time before being forced into the 9-5 world, and broadening your horizon in general. But maybe that's just the European perspective.
In any case, these people are so fucking startup-brained that it hurts to think about.
Serious question: how? Isn't Minecraft free to play and you can just host servers yourself on your computer? I tried to search up "how to make money off a Minecraft server" and was (of course) met with an endless list of results of LLM slop I could not bear to read more than one paragraph of.
Yes, because Palantir is such a beacon of defending democratic values and not a techfash shithouse at all.
In the Year of Our Lord 2025 how does anyone, much less a published journalist, not recognize "Western Civilization" as a dog whistle for white (or at least European) supremacy rather than having anything to do with representative government or universal human rights or whatever people like to pretend.