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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025

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  • Man, i used to respect Simon Willison so much back when he was a Web Guy; his AI-booster heel-turn has been just intolerable to watch.

    • JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react

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  • Another reason right-wing shitheads are becoming tradorthodox instead of tradcath these days is because they think the current Pope is a woke liberal monster.

    • The worst person you know: "We bought an island"

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  • chef's kiss

    • "Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction"

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  • In Canada the banks look at you funny but will issue chequebooks if you ask. (Source: am an American immigrant to Canada, refuse to sign up for our apartment management company's auto-rent-payment thingy. Rent is the only thing we use them for.)

    • rationalists discuss: does testosterone make you stupid?

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  • Also there's literally no correlation between skull size and intelligence in primates????

    • Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble

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  • Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series.

    • Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me

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  • Yeah, the light-rail system in Vancouver, BC is basically fully-automated, but they do still have to have a person hanging out in the train in case something goes badly wrong.