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.
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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
In case you missed it, a couple sneers came out against AI from mainstream news outlets recently - CNNās put out an article titled āAppleās AI isnāt a letdown. AI is the letdownā, whilst the New York Times recently proclaimed āThe Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumesā.
You want my take on this development, Iām with Ed Zitron on this - this is a sign of an impending sea change. Looks like the bubbleās finally nearing its end.
The NYT also ran this little story about Bloomberg having āto correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this yearā.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/business/media/bloomberg-ai-summaries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.rrgt.pt3AGFekgpT3
Turns out that they can only stack shit so high before it falls back to earth
Taking a shot in the dark, journalistic incidents like Bloombergās failed tests with AI summaries and the BBCās complaints about Apple AI mangling headlines probably helped with accelerating that fall to earth - for any journalists reading about or reporting on such shitshows, it likely shook their faith in AIās supposed abilities in a way failures outside their field didnāt.
By refusing to focus on a single field at a time AI companies really did make it impossible to take advantage of Gel-Mann amnesia.