Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    yes thanks for reminding me that the US is the center of the known universe and that all morality and allowances of anything ever should be modelled on events there. I almost forgot!

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Using it for ML training would also be illegal in the EU under GDPR.

      But this already exists. My colleague had to submit a video self-interview when applying to Goldman Sachs, the pillar of morality and ethics in the corporate world.

    • EiimEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I didn’t intend to make any comment on morality. US law seems relevant given that it’s near-impossible to find one of these nonsense AI startups that isn’t either in the US or targeting US customers. Indeed, this one looks to be based in Los Angeles.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        I literally stated that the thing I was referencing in my comment (that you replied to) was from ZA. but I appreciate your doubled-down US-centrism in your second reply. nice job! glad you can remind me again! I must’ve forgotten about it in the handful of hours since you last did it!

          • EiimEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            I’m familiar enough with country codes that I do know what ZA means, but in the context I didn’t realize that it was referring to a country, I thought it was just an abbreviation I wasn’t familiar with. In retrospect that probably should have stood out to me more.