Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024
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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
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today in capitalism: landlords are using an AI tool to collude and keep rent artificially high
But according to the U.S. government’s case, YieldStar’s algorithm can drive landlords to collude in setting artificial rates based on competitively-sensitive information, such as signed leases, renewal offers, rental applications, and future occupancy.
One of the main developers of the software used by YieldStar told ProPublica that landlords had “too much empathy” compared to the algorithmic pricing software.
“The beauty of YieldStar is that it pushes you to go places that you wouldn’t have gone if you weren’t using it,” said a director at a U.S. property management company in a testimonial video on RealPage’s website that has since disappeared.
I mean, yes. Obviously if all the data from these supposedly competing rental owners was being compiled by Some Guy this would be collusion, price gouging, etc.
But what if instead of Some Guy we used a computer? Eh? Eh? Pretty smart, yeah?
But they hashtag care!
Where's the guy who said AI use is a form of austerity
Yeah where is he? I would like to bludgeon him
Angrily puts away bludgeon