Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025
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.)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025
Want to wade into the spooky 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. Happy Halloween, everyone!)
sc_griffith
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •apologies for just linking to my own bsky post but I'm lazy: bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bs…
tl;dr I've gotten a bit suspicious that "AI users will be genocided" posts on reddit are a nazi op
gerikson
in reply to sc_griffith • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to gerikson • • •acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)istewart
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:
newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g…
Casio nano-sizes the rugged G-Shock into full-functioning finger watch
C.C. Weiss (New Atlas)gerikson
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •Big Yud posts another "banger"[1], and for once the target audience isn't impressed:
lesswrong.com/posts/3q8uu2k6Af…
I skimmed it. It's terrible. It's a long-winded parable about some middling chess player who's convinced he's actually good, and a Socratic strawman in the form of a young woman who needles him.
Contains such Austean gems as this
In the end, both strawmen are killed by AI-controlled mosquito drones, leaving everyone else feeling relieved .
Commenters seem miffed that Yud isn't cleaning up his act and writing more coherently so as to warn the world of Big Bad AI, but apparently he just can't help himself.
[1] if by banger you mean a long, tedious turd. 42 minute read!
sinedpick
in reply to gerikson • • •First comment: "the world is bottlenecked by people who just don't get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it"
No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.
ocrampal
in reply to sinedpick • • •@cstross
Tunnel vision: we live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things.
ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-…
Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise
Marco Palombi (ocrampal`s place)Sailor Sega Saturn
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •We regret to inform you that one of Google's "AI leader"s is a transphobe:
theinformation.com/articles/go… (paywall)
bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsk… (screenshot of relevant section)
Soyweiser
in reply to Sailor Sega Saturn • • •That must be one of the more dumber things I have read in a while.
CinnasVerses
in reply to Soyweiser • • •Sailor Sega Saturn
in reply to CinnasVerses • • •There is no need to give transphobes the benefit of the doubt really.
You don't believe in gender? I mean you're wrong IMO but we're cool. But if someone says the words "I don't believe have an attribute called gender" as part of a bunch of totally obvious anti-trans dog-whistles when butting into a discussion about transgender day of remembrance? Now it's a problem.