The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier.

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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[–] 13 points 2 days ago* (12 children)

Character.AI files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets for $20 million

At one point "valued" at 2.5B, so that sale is 99%+ discount, even charitably assuming 100M sale of it all it's still 96% discount

betteroffline thread

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

    thank god. horrid, parasocial site

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. Shame they're probably all made and siphoned off life-changing amounts of money before this happened. I guess we can always hope they take up smoking because AI is going to cure cancer.

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

    They looking to get off the hook before all the class action lawsuits pile up?

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

    or maybe they genuinely ran out of vc money

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Wonder who gets all the plaintext logs from all their victims

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    not done yet

    Under this ​process, Disney's bid would set a baseline offer while allowing competing bidders to submit higher bids, and the company expects ​the sale process to conclude by late November or ​early December 2026.

    perhaps them, and maybe these are linked to identities of users

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