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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

BTW 9th of September is not a Sunday lol

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever thought to yourself "I wish I could read Yud's Logorrhea but in the form of a boring yet pretentious cartoon-- like a Rationalist Cinematic Universe!"?

Well boy oh boy do I have a link for you:

https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1832452673867546802

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVN_5xsMDdg

TBH I thought the whole star blinking plot point was kind of neat when I was a teenager, but thought the story got a bit muddled by the end. Of course at the time I was trying to read it as a sci-fi story and not a P(doom) propaganda piece. My mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I knew Kagi was kinda screwed the moment the CEO went off like Castle Bravo, but jeez

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my favourite thing about kagi is how when you click on the kagi logo on the kagi.com home page you get a 404

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know what I'm listening to this evening. Knowledge Fight Link

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I usually can't stand radio-style podcasters but these guys are just too good. The way they play off each other is top notch.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

NASB is there an xcancel but for medium dot com?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

archive.today usually works

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Lex Fridman: "I'm going to do a deep dive on Ancient Rome. Turns out it was a land of contrasts"

I'm doing a podcast episode on the Roman Empire.

It's a deep dive into military conquest, technology, politics, economics, religion... from its rise to its collapse (n the west & the east).

History really does put everything in perspective.

(xcancel)

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