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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    oh! was he the guy doing a search engine archiving as much of the fediverse as possible, over the objections of the people being indexed?

    yeah that tracks

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 months ago

      So many techbros have decided to scrape the fediverse that they all blur together now… I was able to dig up this:

      “I hear I’m supposed to experiment with tech not people, and must not use data for unintended purposes without explicit consent. That all sounds great. But what does it mean?” He whined.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I always wondered why he was at google for so long, and cut a teeny bit of hypothetical slack in light of “hmm maybe it gave a significantly better life than what he could in italy” (which honestly I can understand as a drive, if not necessarily agree with)

          that slack’s gone now