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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

last weekā€™s thread

  • froztbyte@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    Ā·
    edit-2
    19 days ago

    how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I havenā€™t gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)

    I was struck by the outright ā€œhey weā€™ve got cult campā€ kitted out in whatever-the-fuck theyā€™ve done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as ā€œpeople are cyborgs nowā€

    although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now Iā€™m wondering if thatā€™s a thing that I missed in others of this before

    • Soyweiser@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      Ā·
      19 days ago

      Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.