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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025 (awful.systems)

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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. Also, happy Pride :3)

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ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives. (sean.heelan.io)

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This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

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Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it! (pivot-to-ai.com)

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video, podcast

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Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions (pivot-to-ai.com)

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1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy (dl.acm.org)

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The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Google takes AI propaganda to the movies (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Firing people for AI: not going so well (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail (pivot-to-ai.com)

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AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request (pivot-to-ai.com)

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AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Google: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!” (techcrunch.com)

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Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

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ChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name. (lemm.ee)

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A news.ycombinator.com screenshot. It has two comments. The first reads: "I told ChatGPT my mom's name the day my account got persistent memory, last april. I also told it to figure out my dad's name. Once a month or so I would ask it my mom and dad's name. By november it had figured out my dad's name. https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1859637611595214888" It has a reply saying "Unfortunately I feel like the fact that your dad's name is the same as yours somewhat diminishes that accomplishment.".

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You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data (pivot-to-ai.com)

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UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead (pivot-to-ai.com)

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eating our own dogshit (old.reddit.com)

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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)

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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Podcast version if you hate pictures

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How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data (pivot-to-ai.com)

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