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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
    12·
    18 hours ago

    Breaking news from 404 Media: the Repubs introduced a new bill in an attempt to ban AI from being regulated:

    “…no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,” says the text of the bill introduced Sunday night by Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The text of the bill will be considered by the House at the budget reconciliation markup on May 13.

    If this goes through, its full speed ahead on slop.

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        The Repubs more-or-less renamed themselves Team Skynet with this open attempt to maximise AI’s harms, I absolutely think they’re McFucking Losing It™ right now.

        • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Given the libertarian fixation, probably a solid percentage of them. And even the ones that didn’t vote for Trump often push or at least support various mixes of “grey-tribe”, “politics is spiders”, “center left”, etc. kind of libertarian centrist thinking where they either avoided “political” discussion on lesswrong or the EA forums (and implicitly accepted libertarian assumptions without argument) or they encouraged “reaching across the aisle” or “avoiding polarized discourse” or otherwise normalized Trump and the alt-right.

          Like looking at Scott’s recent posts on ACX, he is absolutely refusing responsibility for his role in the alt-right pipeline with every excuse he can pull out of his ass.

          Of course, the heretics who have gone full e/acc absolutely love these sorts of “policy” choices, so this actually makes them more in favor of Trump.

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          4·
          5 hours ago

          I have not kept up but Scott did write an anti trump article again before the election. So we really cant blame them /s