(The spooks shall soon be upon us.)

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 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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[–] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The author Wentworth was just awarded half a million dollars by Jaan Tallinn & Dustin Moskovitz to do "research" at Lightcone Infrastructure. I am going to sign out because I am starting to get thoughts which involve the RCAF and 500-pound bombs (so of course they use the middle school across the street as human shields). Rapists, apologists for racists, and protectors of rapists are the enemies of all mankind.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    It seems he won't get the full payout:

    The rationalists are starting to cancel people for exercising free speech! woke 3.0 is go I repeat woke 3.0 is go

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    Survival and flourishing Fund tweeted:

    We have withdrawn our grant recommendation to John Wentworth from the 2026 S-Process Grant Round. After we posted our announcement on Sept 30, public statements by Mr. Wentworth came to our attention, which we found objectionable, disturbing, and contrary to the values of SFF.

    A Speculation Grant to Mr. Wentworth was appoved and disbursed earlier in the year, prior to SFF becoming aware of his statements. The Funders of this round will not be fulfilling the remainder of the grant recommendation.

    If you have concerns about the conduct of an SFF applicant or grantee, you can contact us at

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    How much of their budget goes towards registering under a novelty TLD?

    Also, is ‘MM’ supposed to mean something other than megamega or megamillion? I genuinely can’t work out why you wouldn’t stop at a single M.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I forget which convention it is exactly, but I think it's the one that goes M(ille), MM(illion) instead of Kilo, Mega...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Roman numerals had MM for million (there was also a convention with writing lines over your numbers).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Is this some fascist RETVRN nonsense then? 🤔

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Neoclassicism has been big in the finance industry since the 19trh century to hide that high finance is just arithmetic and personal relationships like buying insurance. A used car dealer can't afford Ionic columns and a marble desktop, but an investment bank can.

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