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.)
Josh Marshall discovers:
Get David Graeber’s name out ya damn mouth. The point of Bullshit Jobs wasn’t that these roles weren’t necessary to the functioning of the company, it’s that they were socially superfluous. As in the entire telemarketing industry, which is both reasonably profitable and as well-run as any other, but would make the world objectively better if it didn’t exist
The idea was not that “these people should be fired to streamline efficiency of the capitalist orphan-threshing machine”.
I saw Musk mentioning Ian Banks’ Player of Games as an influential book for him, and I puked in my mouth a little.
I demand that Brown University fire (checks notes) first name “YOU ARE HACKED NOW” last name “YOU ARE HACKED NOW” immediately!
Thank you to that thread for reacquainting me with the term “script kiddie”, the precursor to the modern day vibe coder
Script kiddies at least have the potential to learn what they’re doing and become proper hackers. Vibe coders are like middle management; no actual interest in learning to solve the problem, just trying to find the cheapest thing to point at and say “fetch.”
There’s a headline in there somewhere. Vibe Coders: stop trying to make fetch happen