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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
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    I dunno, I know that legally we donā€™t know which way this is going to go, because the ai people presumably have very good lawyers

    Youā€™re not wrong on the AI corps having good lawyers, but I suspect those lawyers donā€™t have much to work with:

    If I were a betting man, Iā€™d put my money on the trial being a bloodbath in the artistsā€™ favour, and the resulting legal precedent being one which will likely kill generative AI as we know it.

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      3 months ago

      God, that would be the dream, huh? Absolutely crossing my fingers it all shakes out this way.

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        Stranger things have happened. But in either case, we should commit to supporting every effort. If one punch doesnā€™t work take another. Death by a million cuts.