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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
My enshittification story*: Instagram has been suggesting people for me to follow. It markets them to me by saying āfriend X follows this person!ā But friend X does not follow this person. Friend X has no tenable connection to this person. Why are you bullshitting me, Zuck? Is the autoplag outflow drain hooked up to Insta?
*orig JP title: åć®ćØć³ć·ććåć¹ćć¼ćŖć¼
LinkedIn cold-emailed me this morning to suggest that I follow Vivek Ramaswamy, who lists his job title as āFounder at Vivek Ramaswamyā
Vivek āI gave birth to myselfā Ramaswamy
Gonna change my name to Goldman Sachs and style myself as my own founder.
heās a self-made man, apparently
Your family wants to see you post on threads bullshit is laughable
Doubt
facebook pulled that shit for many years too, along with the ācreatedā notifications
alllll for the engagement farming, desperate to keep those eyeball KPIs on track
Oh it was for the KPIs? All is forgiven then. /s
right? if only you knew it was for Sacred Advertising Revenue and Good Statistics, you wouldnāt have embarrassed yourself so in public! alas, the dangers of the modern internet