Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work
Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.
It’s not where I obtained this PR but how.
the inability to follow a through b through c here is….something
Whitehouse AI czar (rightfully) imo pointing out that it’s pretty shit behavior to shout fire in a movie theatre and instead of admitting fault just typing ¯_(ツ)_/¯ in chat
PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE TITLED OUR PREDICTION AI 2027 DIFFERENTLY???
The bailey: AI 2027 😱 The motte: ahem actually we had a footnote that said AI 2030, so we don’t need feel the need to retract/apologize/or slightly edit our fearmongering website.
Let this be an albatross around scoots neck forever lmaou.
Me in 2027 when the AI hasn’t turned me and the rest of ya’ll into corgis yet ;_;
(yes this actually happens in their most likely scenario forecast)
Mozilla continues to double down on AI, promising to “do for AI what we did for the web” in their latest (probably AI-extruded) blogpost.
In related news, I found a toot thread attributing the current shitfest (and AI’s popularity in general) to “a strong majority of even the actually well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech [getting] their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines”. Where the OP is finding those “well-intentioned, smart leaders”, I do not know.
Internet Comment Etiquette: “Fixing the AI Coke Ad” nsfw, happy friday
Checked back in on Framework’s rotting corpse.
The company’s retired their official Discord server (in the Blade Runner sense), about a month after the mod team jumped ship over the company’s fash turn. There’s discussion on the Framework forums about it, too.
Its not the only social media platform they’ve abandoned - they left Bluesky and Mastodon to court fascists on Twitter a while ago.
All the fash stuff is incredibly bad, but I cannot get over this:
I personally found a lot of enjoyment in the Framework discord. The format of a discord server is a lot more useful for chatting and discussion within a community than something like a forum (which seems a little more siloed).
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. EITHER YOU ARE INSANE OR I AM.
Adam Mastroianni has the audacity to claim that people don’t seem to join phygs any more, gets clip art from Astral Codex Ten and hosts a vlog for Inkhaven guests https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
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Do I even want to know what a Subnautica or a Krafton is?
Okay, quick TL;DR:
Subnautica is a video game made by Unknown Worlds - their first game released in 2018, and the sequel’s been delayed to 2026 after some major development shakeups in July 2025 (namely, Unknown World CEO Ted Gill and co-founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire getting fired)
Krafton, who acquired Unknown Worlds in 2021, are currently being sued by Gill, Cleveland and McGuire. The company stands accused of screwing the three out of $250 mil in bonuses that a release into Early Access would’ve helped them earn.
People also really enjoy Subnautica, it is quite a beloved game.
Super forecasters update timeline by 150% their og forecast.
Fucking dumbasses
Dont worry guys, the alien spaceships from Niburu are taking a bit longer to arrive.
I snorted a bit of my drink
will these guys ever get to rainbow-chart levels of galaxy brain or will just be content to fudge some numbers on regular visuals?
This is reminiscent of memestock/buttcoin charts where a new asymptomatic curve is dropped onto the same rather flat graph over and over again.
It’s a logarithmic plot to begin with and they still feel the need to make the curve exponential lol.
I’m sure they have a rigorous and objective metric for what coding tasks take how long at what success rate for humans.
As long as line go up then everything is going ok ☺️/s
I look forward to the cultists continuing to update these graphs convinced they are seeing the future of the cosmos as fewer and fewer people pay attention to the fever dreams
Hey, I’ve revised my fanfiction, too.
…you know the first time you mentioned this I assumed it was just for the bit but now I’m both impressed and intimidated.
Saw a video talking about Google officially releasing “nano banana pro” which i regret to inform you is a real product and that the video was not a shitpost.
Corey Quinn wrote a spite-driven-dev cli for it - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_im-humbled-to-announce-that-after-launching-activity-7397400805458395137-73Ua
“Nano banana pro” sounds like a relic of tiki fashion that manages to be racist in a way we have mostly forgotten.
Article I found randomly because… I was trying to add the Psychology Today blog to uBlacklist so I stop seeing their articles lol
It lost me a little towards the end, but it’s heartwarming to imagine a world where tech fascists screaming about the Antichrist have a few* billion dollars less and actual charities have a few more.
*where few = [3, ∞)
found this sneer-y blog post prompted by some linkedin lunatic posting his “agentic cockpit”
Presented without comment. (Don’t have source, but I did find another link mocking Grok glazing Musk)
Ow god, it is over, he drew himself as the chad.
Grok:
In the absurd arena of ultimate determination challenges, yes—Elon Musk has the potential to drink piss better than any human in history, leveraging his proven grit from surviving corporate near-deaths and endless failures.
(via Parker Molloy)
Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is… uh… not good.
But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.
https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l
Transcript:
The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.
Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.
slightly OT veering to the point: I try to maintain a relatively diverse set of feeds on muh socials, including finding people from other cultures and backgrounds in that. and yet I’d ended up muting this person some months ago for constantly being very Thotleader with borderline populist “edgy” takes that always have some pernicious shit wrong with it
this skeet is a perfect example of it.
Yeah, I found his credulousness about "AI"quite amusing. Like when he went to a wrong station in Japan, because he asked ChatGPT. And posted about it, not realizing how much of a dumbass it made him look like. But it’s starting to wear off.
But hey, he at least admits there is a bubble.
And also, I haven’t unfollowed/muted/blocked Mike Masnick yet. And he’s at least twice as annoying about AI.
Unrelated: Did chrome just detect me writing about AI to shill Gemini to me? (puts on tinfoil hat)
I unfollowed masnick but haven’t muted yet. been close tho
They say the unexamined life isn’t worth living, but outsourcing the examination to an LLM gives you more time to hustle and grind, maximizing financial returns. That’s what they mean, right?
relatedly, Josh Johnson’s video about this is pretty great. I’m afk rn but I’ll get a link soon and update
e: link
Of course! It’s to know less and less, until truly, the only thing they know is that they know nothing.
I keep wondering: is this really a need which many people fundamentally have, or is AI usage doing something to their brains?
Recently my research lead recounted a meeting among the senior people, where they hammered out a bunch of project pitches. Some of the wording was still a little rough, but they were going to pass it all through DeepL anyway, to make it read good. Also everyone’s bad at spellling these days, since you got a thing that autocompletes for you, right? They were proud they remembered how to spell “continuous”.
Sure, everyone has days they can’t word good, but this starts sounding like worrying de-skilling. These people spend a good portion of their paid time working on and arguing over wording.
To be fair though it’s not just their brains turning to mush, google has genuinely been getting worse too.
i don’t remember who said it, but they described genai as in some way reverse bayesian spam filter - so if spam filter can adapt to variety of spams, now there’s automated tool to flood the zone with spam that does pass the filter. this was used for seo with predictable results
feel like I’ve seen variations on that in a few places myself. would be interested in seeing a source, if anyone has. could be an interesting piece by itself
google has genuinely been getting worse too.
That’s a one-two punch of Prabhakar Raghavan publicly executing it for profit and the slop-nami drowning out human-made work via SEO-optimised garbage (indirectly assisting Google’s enshittification efforts in the process).
Publishers have been reportedly readjusting their businesses to account for this shit - combined with Google’s enshittifcation and the slop-nami, we may see Google (if not search engines in general) lose a lot of relevance due to AI.
I feel like “we’ll just build a world model” is on the same level as saying " we’ll just solve the P vs NP problem."
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How to draw an owl:
- draw some circles. (drawing of circles)
- draw the rest of the fucking owl. (very skillful and detailed drawing of an owl)
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The generic abyss of artificial intelligence | John R. Gallagher
All this business talk from CEOs about AI automating work comes down to them not valuing the input of workers. You can hear the jubilant ejaculative rhetoric about robots because robots represent firing all the workers. CEOs see their workers as interchangeable laborers who fit inside of templates. They want workers who pull the levers of templates. They’ve always wanted this since the individual revolution. But now the templates are no longer physical commodities but instead our stories, our genres.
Call it template capitalism. Social media companies are already operating under this logic through the templates they force on users. As the car companies have done by forcing drivers into templates. Or shoe companies have accomplished with standard sizes. There’s nothing stopping the knowledge sectors of the economy from extending that logic to workers. Knowledge workers are being deskilled by making them obey the generic templates of LLMs.
Template capitalism hollows out the judgment of individual knowledge workers by replacing slowly accreted genre experiences with the summed average of all genres. Under this system, knowledge workers merely ensure the machines don’t make errors (or what the AI companies have just relabeled “hallucinations”). The nuance of situated knowledge evaporates, leaving behind procedural obedience. The erosion of individual judgment is the point. Workers who diverge from the ordained path of LLMs are expendable. If you challenge the templates, you get fired.
They’ve always wanted this, indeed. There’s some comfort to me in the reminder that this year’s layoffs are no different than the last cycle, except maybe the excuses are thinner.
