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.)

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    New Yorker put out an article on how AI use is homogenizing thought processes and writing ability.

    Our friends on the orange site have clambored over each other to all make very similar counteraguments. Kind of proves the article, no?

    I love this one:

    All connection technology is a force for homogeneity. Television was the death of the regional accent, for example.

    Holy shit. Yes, TV has reduced the strength of accents. But “the death”? Tell me again how little you pay attention to the people you inevitably interact with day to day.

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      All connection technology is a force for homogeneity. Television was the death of the regional accent, for example.

      Listen to a Geordie for five minutes and say that to me with a straight face. I fucking dare you. (Not you, the orange site member)