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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.
went and peeked at the ezra klein podcast on the off chance heās gotten into anything interesting
lol
To be fair, itās hard to really internalize that all these rich and powerful techbros are actually morons after all these years of journalists like Ezra Klein breathlessly reporting their weird ideas and baseless claims about what they were going to be able to do in the next couple of years.
I rewrote it for accuracy:
Thereās something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. Itās clear weāre witnessing the advent of a wilfully stupid fart machine, one that could transform the atmosphere into farts and the way we think about farts and creating farts and the value of human farts itself. At the same time, I canāt for the life of me figure out why Iād want to sit in a room filled with my own farts.
So I wanted to understand what Iām missing and get some tips for how I could incorporate farts better into my life right now. And Eating Mollusks is the perfect guide: Heās a pro-fartor at the Fartinā School at the University of Farts
the nuanced take nobody wants to hear: farts are a tool, and like any tool they can be used for good or bad. thatās what progress is. we canāt let the possibility for a few bad uses of farts overshadow how farts can unleash the futures of truly creative individuals, businesses and societies.
to address another common point: yes, there are kinks to be worked out. sometimes farted information can be wrong. farted music doesnāt always come out with the clarity we want. farted art is sometimes missing details. but farts are already revolutionizing and democratizing the arts, science, and even the concept of human interaction. we canāt lose sight of the great potential of farting - just like the early days of the internet, we donāt know what amazing things weāll end up with because of it.
Ī Thanks, this really changed my perspective on farts
Who the hell is Ezra Klein? Some Joe Rogan type of guy with a lot of bad ideas on a podcast?
idk if this will mean anything to you but matt yglesias is the muppet version of ezra klein
I guess it does, in the sense that I have asked āwho tf is Matt Yglessias and why does anyone listen to himā many times and received no satisfactory explanation either