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.)
ed zitron weighs in on deepseek https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
Ed Zitron radicalizes NPR host Brooke Gladstone in real time on the midweek episode of āOn the Mediaā
After fondling ChatGPT to generate naughty things, man has meltdown when he learns no one cares.
Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death.
I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming.
I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be ā¦ ChiCom!
Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent Chinese AI?
you enjoy it? suspicious
No less than Mr Acausal Robot God casually dismissing the lives of +1B humans
āThe world is finite and kids are infinite, especially African kids.ā Jfc. Anyway goes to show just how white supremacist the whole āsave the childrenā idea is.
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.
Screenshot of an insta post of a screenshot of a tweet
Tweet:
I canāt believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
deleted by creator
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!
