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: 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.)

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      12 days ago

      Eric “I will come to Harvard and espouse Numberwang Racism if you deign to invite me” Weinstein:

      Invite me back to Harvard as the co-founder of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project in the @HarvardEcon department and I will give a talk on how this really works. You don’t have to pay me a cent if you video it.

      I’ll cover:

      The need to fire Claudine Gay.

      The need to end activist studies depts.

      University Bioweapon research

      String Theory

      CPI Cost of Living

      Evolutionary theory applied to Humans

      Low Dimensional Geometry

      NSF STEM Shortage Panics

      DEI hiring against merit

      Epstein and Science

      Cognitive abilities expectations in Geographicly widely separated populations.

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        12 days ago

        In using xcancel to look up Eric Weinstein’s bonkers rants on Xitter, I exposed myself to Sabine Hossenfelder’s comment section. The drivel, the fawning, the people asking chatbots about quantum gravity… It hurts, it hurts.

        I am going to scrub my brain with Oliver Byrne’s edition of Euclid.

      • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        You’ve got to be shitting me.

        Edit: maybe all these weirdos in the techfash groupchat are experimenting with the wrong nootropics and gave themselves brain damage. They all seem to be unravelling simultaneously.

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I think they are feeling like they are riding the wave. The unstoppable wave of ‘achtually we are right’ and they learned nothing from the expert drug users and dont know the wave is about to reach the high water mark.