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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
OT: since weāve occasionally featured a music thread and such, any interest in a music sub? it could be pair well with this, the awful pub.
the awful pub sub[0], if you will
this thought brought to you by prior threads as well as this that Iām listening to in late-afternoon 26C weather
[0] you know I had to, I couldnāt not
On the topic of music, also linked here before is https://youtube.com/@Tantacrul
He doesnāt mention genAI, but his video essays attack many of the common arguments, even the more awful anti-AI ones. I particularly like his demonstration in which the listener predicts what follows a chord, or melodic, sequence and subverting the expectation leads to more interesting music; Next-token predictors are completely orthogonal to this characteristic.
For the not awful music: https://wangleline.bandcamp.com/album/disaster-field A pretty good idm album.
I just discovered his channel last week and have consumed far too much of his content already, haha. Iāve been using Musescore forever, so those videos where extremely interesting as well.
So, +1 for Tantacrul
I would definitely make lots of extremely boring posts about old bands in a music sub. Hmmm, maybe it would be a bad ideaā¦
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Iād be happy to see it, this place could do have a notawfulmusic sub
hmm, Iām partial to āawful pub subā over ānotawfulā, because taste and such are wild (and maybe one may want to sneerpost alongside goodposts)
besides, someone may like/link country. you can never tell with some people!