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.

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

  • hrrrngh@awful.systemsEnglish
    8Ā·
    12 days ago

    Friends donā€™t let friends OSINT

    i can stop any time I want I swear

    The youtube page you found is less talked about, though a reddit comment on one of them said ā€œanyone else thinking burntbabylon is Luigi?ā€. I will point out that the rest of his online presence doesnā€™t really paint him as ā€œanti techā€ overall, but who can say.

    apparently there was an imposter youtube channel too I missed

    https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-death-investigation-12-9-24#cm4hp9zyk000m3b6nobdudr15

    not sure what his official instagram is, but I saw a mention of the instagram account @nickakritas_ around the beginning of his channel (assuming itā€™s his). didnā€™t appear in the internet archive though.

    also saw these twitter & telegram links to promote his channel, the twitter one was deleted or nuked (I use telegram to talk with friends who have it but the lack of content removal + terrible encryption means I donā€™t touch unknown telegram links with a 10ft pole, so I have no idea whatā€™s in there):

    I missed a couple videos which survived on the internet archive but I couldnā€™t make it through 5 seconds of any of them. one of them (ā€œHow Humans Are Becoming Dumberā€) cites that tech priest guy Gwern Branwen and ā€œAnti-Techā€ was gone from the channel name by then. he changed the channel name a lot so maybe he veered away from it being an anti-tech channel?

    edit: channel names were a little wrong, I put them in the parent comment

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
      11Ā·
      12 days ago

      Speaking of imposters, thereā€™s a screenshot of a fake manifesto substack post (since deleted) which has been linked a couple times on reddit.

      The only problem is it was first published to substack over four hours after the arrest was reported according to the postā€™s own json-ld metadata. People be trying to stir things up.

      Amatuers. Canā€™t even publish the post early and edit it later for that extra bit of plausible deniability.