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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.

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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 so 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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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

fuckin casey is at it again

haven’t got time to sneer it just yet, but had to share

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago

And not a single question about the Claude Code source leak, which revealed how it's completely slapped together with string and bubble gum.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

the only kind of spine casey has is the kind in his old school ringbinders, and you can't convince me otherwise

[-] sansruse@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

really remarkable how they just expect us to swallow the hard pivot from "AI is going to take all your jobs and render your economic value to the amount of calories harvestable from your feeble body" to "AI will create undecillion jobs UwU (◠‿◠✿)"

Another quick sneer:

Cherny: I was so focused on shipping. As soon as I got the idea, I spent every night and every weekend on it — it was the only thing I thought about, the only thing I worked on. I started having dreams about Claude Code, and that's still all I dream about: what should we do next, what do we build next. There's a chance now to zoom out, because a lot of people are using it and there's a lot to learn about how. But for a long time we were so focused on building that I didn't even have a chance to think about what it was.

Emphasis mine. the ideology buried within statements like this makes me want to erase the idea of a computer from the collective human consciousness. I feel like moving to the woods with some goats, or something, when i consider the fact that literally every single one of the tech oligarchs thinks like this. Literally channeling the spirit of capitalism like your body is a portal to a lovecraftian dimension. Purge. purge. purge this evil

[-] fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social 7 points 17 hours ago

@sansruse @froztbyte It blows my mind that "But for a long time we were so focused on building that I didn’t even have a chance to think about what it was." doesn't raise alarm bells in anyone who hears it.

Sometimes you get in the flow and knock out a bit of it; but if you are 'so focused on building' that you don't have a chance to think about what you are building how well is that going to go? Might be a euphoric, manic, rush; but probably not a well-considered outcome.

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