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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
found while giving my feed a moment of scroll while making coffee after too many 3am worknights, I saw this response to the substack guy giving themselves a pat on the back again for helping the nazis
Terrible news: the worst person I know just made a banger post.
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Screenshot of an insta post of a screenshot of a tweet
Tweet:
I canāt believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
Looks like Ziz remains on the lam again.
Neo-Nazi nutcase having a normal one.
Itās so great that this isnāt falsifiable in the sense that doomers can keep saying, well āonce the model is epsilon smarter, then youāll be sorry!ā, but back in the real world: the model has been downloaded 10 million times at this point. Somehow, the diamanoid bacteria has not killed us all yet. So yes, we have found out the Yud was wrong. The basilisk is haunting my enemies, and she never misses.
Bonus sneer: āwe are going to find out if Yud was rightā Hey fuckhead, he suggested nuking data centers to prevent models better than GPT4 from spreading. R1 is better than GPT4, and it doesnāt require a data center to run so if we had acted on Yudās geopolitical plans for nuclear holocaust, billions would have been for incinerated for absolutely NO REASON. How do you not look at this shit and go, yeah maybe donāt listen to this bozo? Iāve been wrong before, but god damn, dawg, Iāve never been starvingInRadioactiveCratersWrong.
The advanced sinophobia where the Chinese are so much better at everything than the west that even when they make better and cheaper bullshit machines than the Americans do and hand them out for free, it has apocalyptic consequences.
Itās wild that Yudkowsky saw a binary choice of ānuclear holocaustā and āsuperintelligenceā and chose ānuclear holocaustā in the first place.
Like, even if I believed in FOOM, Iāll take my chances with the stupid sexy basilisk š over radiation burns and itās not even fucking close.
I donāt want to say with absolute confidence that thereās no scenario I can imagine to which a nuclear apocalypse would be preferable (the real kind, not the Fallout kind). But I have yet to hear one.
The upcoming firestorms of climate change, while patrolling the Mohave desert almost make you wish for nuclear winter. Ow wait not like fallout you said
nuclear winter is not a thing that can possibly happen, from what i understand
sagan et al overstated amount of soot put in upper atmosphere over 10x, for no particular reason other than trying to make a point
notice how no one talked about it after desert storm? oilfield fires provided negative evidence
They still do nuclear war climate modelling. Its still bad.
Another dream shattered. Not sure if the oilfield fires were big enough. Volcanoes can cause some cooling right? pokes old yeller
Weāve had recent eruptions in all be big categories, so weāre not due another one for a while and trying to cheat by setting one off early wonāt allow sufficient pressure for a proper bang.
Not that I want to discourage you, but donāt be sad if you try for a year without summer and get a couple of weeks without flights instead.
yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow
Iām not going to link Andy Ngo but random rationalist transwomen are being accused of terror sympathyā¦and Aella is doing this āleopards ate my faceā dance.
edit: it was @jessi_cata who tipped Ngo off of all people.
tbh I donāt understand this post at all. aella isnāt trans so why would she be a target for leopards? I must be misinterpreting
thats just me trying to use an unfamiliar meme (and just trying to narrate what Iām seeing on twitter that maybe isnāt worth a link). she was actually complaining that people had gone to Ngo.
oh I see! sheās annoyed about a different gang of fascists flexing on hers
Goddammit why canāt the murder cult story just stay morbidly fascinating? Now Iāve got to worry about implications and how the worst people are gonna use this as ammo.
Ok you brought aella up so now I can post this:
Heard this song for the first time the other day and it reminded me of aella.
side note: whatās a good way to post links to music that isnāt youtube?
Iāve used this before: https://song.link/i/1169243537
oh this is brilliant, Iāve been looking for something like this
i donāt think itās the first time i see jessicata acting like a total piece of shit in her completely emotionless way and itās incredibly creepy. she doesnāt even seem to be aware of the harm she can cause.
I was kinda picking up on that ugh.
Ngo is going on Newsmax tonight to do his thing in front of the masses.
you can get banned on facebook now for linking to distrowatch https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked and from distrowatch https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews
but itās not as bad as you think, itās slightly worse. itās not only distrowatch and linux groups got banned too
And on a less downbeat and significantly more puerile note, Dan Fixes Coin Ops makes a nice analogy for companies integrating ai into their product.
that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be
dicks in mousetrapsI MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cardsI do actually have a mechanism for using the sharp edges of NVidia cards for
dickmouse trapping purposes. And we could - hypothetically - use the extraneous power inputs to mine Bitcoin or something, maximizing efficiency!
Hey, did you know of you own an old forum full of interesting posts from back in the day when humans wrote stuff, you can just attach ai bots to dead accounts and have them post backdated slop for, uh, reasons?
this was mentioned in last weekās thread
what I donāt get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use posterās handles. If theyād just tried to ācloseā open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive
The whole thing is just weirdly incompetent. Maybe they just had everything configured wrong and accidentally deployed sone throwaway tests to production? I could almost see it as a way to poison scrapers, given that there are some odd visibility settings on the slop posts, though the ownerās shiftiness and dubious explanations suggest it wasnāt anything so worthy.
This is from 2023 but when debugging an xfce issue this week I came across this forum post: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16835
The user is competent enough to use xfce with Debian, but too incompetent to understand debug symbols is not a violation of privacy.
I get being privacy conscious and that sharing crash dumps and logs you donāt really understand yourself can be scary. Making demands of urgent free tech support from strangers is just rude, though.
my least favorite thing about old forums, which carried over to a lot of open source spaces, is how little moderation there is. coming into the help forum with a āno fuck you help me the way I wantā attitude should probably be an instant ban and āwhat the fuck is wrong with youā mod note, cause thatās the exact type of shit that causes the community to burn out quick, and it decreases the usefulness of the space by a lot. but somehow almost every old forum was moderated by the type of cyberlibertarian who treated every ban like an attack on free speech? so youād constantly see shit like the mod popping in to weakly waggle their finger at the crackpot whoās posting weird conspiracy shit to every thread (which generally caused the crackpot to play the victim and/or tell the mod to go fuck themselves) instead of taking a stand and banning the fucker
and now those crackpots have metamorphosed into full fascists and act like banning them from your GitHub is an international incident, cause they almost never receive any pushback at all
gives a hell of a kicker to the numbers I found
Live: Chinese AI bot DeepSeek sparks US market turmoil, wiping $500bn off major tech firm
Shares for leading US chip-maker Nvidia dropped more than 15% after the emergence of DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese AI bot.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t
lmao
Folks around here told me AI wasnāt dangerous š° ; fellas I just witnessed a rogue Chinese AI do 1 trillion dollars of damage to the US stock market š /s
is that Link??
Is it too early to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the bubble?
Also, does someone know why broadcom was also hit so hard? Is it because they make various networking-related chips used in datacenter infrastructure?
When hedge funds decide to flip the switch on something the reaction never looks rational. Meta was green today ffs.
Pouring one out for the local-news reporters who have to figure out what the fuck ātimeless decision theoryā could possibly mean.
Taylor said the group believes in timeless decision theory, a Rationalist belief suggesting that human decisions and their effects are mathematically quantifiable.
Seems like they gave up early if they donāt bring up how it was developed specifically for deals with the (acausal, robotic) devil, and also awfully nice of them to keep Yudās name out of it.
edit: Also in lieu of explanation they link to the wikipedia page on rationalism as a philosophical movement which of course has fuck all to do with the bay area bayes cargo cult, despite it having a small mention there, with most of the Talk: page being about how it really shouldnāt.
I kicked them a donation just for that
This is a good article, thanks for posting.
Theyāre probably talking about Zizās group. The double homicide in Pennsylvania is likely the murder of Jamie Zajkoās parents referenced in this LW post, and the Vallejo county homicide is the landlord they had a fatal altercation with and who was killed recently.
landlord was
killedstabbed in 2022, but recently they killedsomeone who shot one of zizians back thenhimwait nah i fucked up
In November of 2022, three associates of Ziz (Somnulence āSomniā Logencia, Emma Borhanian, and someone going by the alias āSuri Daoā) got into a violent conflict with their landlord in Vallejo, California, according to court records and news reports. Somni stabbed the landlord in the back with a sword, and the landlord shot Somni and Emma. Emma died, and Somni and Suri were arrested. Ziz and Gwen were seen by police at the scene, alive.
landlordās name is curtis lind. this is about 2022 incident:
Early that morning, several of the tenants asked Lind to come out of his trailer home to help them with an issue, but instead ājumped him with a bunch of knives and swords, apparently with the intent of chopping him up and dissolving him in a bath of chemicals, which they had prepared,ā Young said.
https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/man-killed-in-vallejo-was-main-witness-in-upcoming-murder-trial/
No no thatās right, landlord shot one of them to death and got a sword put through him but he survived. He was stabbed again recently and died.
noted, edited
That was my conclusion as well.
excuse me, what the fuck is this
Either Baader-Meinhoff or Manson family, not sure which.
i donāt think that RAF dropped acid but in revolutionary way
Also Andy Ngo has now picked this up and its being spun as a purely trans terror cell thing.
fuck
