David GerardApr 1, 2024

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024

https://awful.systems/post/1281935

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024 - awful.systems

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.

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Scott Aaronson: “Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter”

Posting here rather than in a separate thread because I’m probably the only one who rememembers him from the old /r/sneerclub days, but he’s an endlessly fascinating figure to me - his ability to view literally every possible scenario through the lens of “poor innocent little smol-bean Scott just wants to discuss things rationally, but is persecuted by his ontologically evil foes and their self-righteous dupes” - doesn’t matter if it’s feminists objecting to his older incel-y posts, Sneer Club dunking on him, cops arresting him for stealing from an airport store or leftists not being fans of the genocide he supports… He must always be the victim. His enemies must always be unreasonable and motivated by hatred of him, specifically.

Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter

Dear Twitter Anti-Zionists, For five months, ever since Oct. 7, I’ve read you obsessively. While my current job is supposed to involve protecting humanity from the dangers of AI (with a side …

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Show threadSailor Sega SaturnApr 4, 2024
What’s he referring to when he says he’s most famous for something about confronting radical feminists with his personal issues?
Show threadDavid GerardApr 4, 2024

my god, you missed out on that?

here is way too much background reading!

  • commenter on Shtetl-Optimized talks about the rapey “nice guys” she suffered at college
  • Scott Aa takes this as a brutal personal attack on him
  • Laurie Penny tries to be nice about it
  • Amanda Marcotte? not so nice about it
  • Scott Alexander weighs in with one zillion words, unreadable, so relentlessly awful that Scott demands readers not form an opinion of him based on a thousands of words essay he worked hard on and chose to publish
  • Elizabeth Sandifer with the correct and readable opinion of this bilge (also long, but worth it)
On Nerd Entitlement

A few people have forwarded me MIT professor Scott Aaronson’s post about nerd trauma and male privilege (link here, it's comment #171) It's part of a larger discussion about sexism in STEM subjects, a

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Don’t forget how Arthur Chu wrote a response grounded in empathy, and Aaronson decided that Chu wants him dead. Really.
The plight of the bitter nerd: Why so many awkward, shy guys end up hating feminism

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Apr 4, 2024 at 3:42pmWeb