Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025
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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
gerikson
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •Stackslobber posts evidence that transhumanism is a literal cult, HN crowd is not having it
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Tranhumanist Cult Test | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.comV0ldek
in reply to gerikson • • •In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I'd get to have a zoom function in my eye
But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.
And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it's just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They're proud it's eugenics.
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Mad Argon
in reply to V0ldek • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to Mad Argon • • •Joshua A.C. Newman
in reply to Mad Argon • • •Because Cyberpunk isn’t about buying and having. It’s about making. The violence and greed is the reason cyberpunks exist: as a counterforce, not as enforcers.
Play IRL in Hackaday instead.
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
in reply to V0ldek • • •In Alastair Reynolds' "Blue Remembered Earth", they have an implant that registers and intercepts the act of committing a crime, and incapacitate you, if I recall correctly. They have the ultimate surveillance state in any case.
His SciFi is as always both fascinating and very disturbing.