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like, just factually in terms of history, they're unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they're not the same as a group at all.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat

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Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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thanks, Gemini power button!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQD2SSGO3JI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260720-use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone - podcast

time: 4 min 01 sec

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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.

last week's edition

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Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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what we do when all this is over

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250717-kim-crawley-recovering-after-gen-ai - podcast

time: 32 min 54 sec

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“At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.” (www.thenewcritic.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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‘allow if the user is wearing green’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3DSOKarCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260716-todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai - podcast

time: 6 min 02 sec

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Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The glasses? Not sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTGJ-tuu7s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260715-meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them - podcast

Time: 4 min 20 sec

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UK police will run evidence through the AI — it’s quicker (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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No hallucinations? Takes too long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrkI7XEnfRA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260714-uk-police-will-run-evidence-through-the-ai-its-quicker - podcast

time: 5 min 04 sec

Linux users failing to respect trans Linux developers by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MOD NOTICE: we're not putting up with debate club rubbish in this thread. If you don't have the reading comprehension to understand the problems with those threads, you shouldn't be posting here.

StackOverflow is blogging about Web3. Please put it out of its misery by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 62 points 2 years ago

ah, it's a paid ad for Ripple

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 81 points 2 years ago

Every article on pronatalism in the past few years has been these two Thiel-sponsored white nationalist dweebs and nobody else. Why the fuck does the Guardian fall for this shit too.

The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 141 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone's best interests

edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you! by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 58 points 2 years ago

always love* it when these guys get so race scientist they start on different groups of white people