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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • I'm trying a new thing where I replace "AI" with "the dried centipede powder from Cronenberg's Naked Lunch movie".

    I only use the dried centipede powder to summarize documents!

    Did you know you can get dried centipede powder in different flavors? You don't have to stick with the default!

  • Random Positivity Threads

  • I will try to think of a theme. Lately I've been managing my anxiety and insomnia by fanficcing at the speed of light, so I will need to switch mental gears, as it were.

  • Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

  • It sucks and I hate it, and I applaud the locals who rallied together to yell at that superintendent until he finally paused the implementation of this thing. This shit is not inevitable, and if one of these dolls does ever end up in a poor, underserved high school, I hope it’s one that’s a lot like the one where I went to school because it would be a smoldering pile of silicone in the corner of the girls’ room by the end of the first week.

    https://skepchick.org/2026/07/i-hate-the-ai-robo-teacher/

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    Lessons Learned from Writing a Moderate Amount of Fanfiction

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Max Kennerly sneers the New York Times:

    This opinion piece, written by someone with no relevant expertise, cites two sources, both of them blogs by people who also have no relevant expertise, one of whom is employed by a sham think tank funded by the "Effective Altruism" propaganda network.

    Truly embarrassing decision to publish it.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Do you feel it? Do you feel incredible? Do you feel hugely positive? Do you feel awesome

    Yeah, but that's just the cocaine

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • Gene Ray actually came to MIT in person. I knew the people who invited him. They had a history of... performance-art kind of stunts on the boundary of good taste? Like calling attention to an obscure discretionary fund by running for student government on a promise that they would use it to bribe everyone who voted for them. One of them taught me to pick locks during rush week.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • And the Movement Skeptics of the aughts looked at Kurzweil's singulatarianism and asked what he was smoking, while basically ignoring that the Holy Sequences existed. I should know, I was there.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • Barbara Rosenblat's recordings of the Amelia Peabody novels are fun.

  • “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.”

  • All the doves are dead, Dave.

  • “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.”

  • We lined up by body count.

    People using this term to mean their number of sexual partners will never not be funny to me. Not always in the same way, but it's always funny in some fashion.

    "And what would you say is your body count, Will?"

    "I thought new couples were supposed to rise above that kind of contest, Dr. Lecter."

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

  • After all, it was a workplace where many employees lived together, and had multiple overlapping romantic relationships with their colleagues, while also essentially acting as each other’s therapists

    "After all, it was completely fucked"

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

  • Heavy is the head that wears the Spirit Halloween golden trilby.

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

  • "...meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain" —some guy

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

  • neither left wing nor right wing but some secret third thing (batshit right wing)

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

  • Me, catching up with the edits: wow that escalated quickly

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

  • Some of us figured it out after writing two novels with gender-flipped self-portraits as main characters, just as god intended

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

  • In local Boston-area sneering:

    This is the map that City Councilors Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) and Brian Worrell (Dorchester) used yesterday as part of their case to build an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue. As if we needed more proof that friends don't let friends use generative AI. How many mistakes can you find?

    "Arlington Heights" has materialized on the Commuter Rail line I took every day to Brandeis, North Station is no longer on the Green Line, Government Center is now the second Park Street, backup copies of State and DTX have appeared for good measure, Boylston and Arlington have departed for the realm of the A branch, along with the Braintree branch of the Red Line... I never knew the "what's wrong with this picture" puzzles in the Sunday funnies would be such good training for evaluating computer technology.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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    Random Positivity Threads

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    Random Positivity Thread: Movies and TV Wishlist

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    Non-Sensational Physics: Episode 0

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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Food Memories

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    Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

    wandering.shop /@xgranade/115680412493693277
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/5699944
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    Book Review: Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    General HPMoR sneer collection

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/07/cremieux-jordan-lasker-mamdani-nyt-nazi-faliceer-reddit/
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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/4885338
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    Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped

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    Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025

    awful.systems /post/3608350
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3491424
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    DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

    www.technologyreview.com /2025/01/31/1110776/deepseek-might-not-be-such-good-news-for-energy-after-all/
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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Book Memories

    awful.systems /post/2359722
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3329759
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/3278715