Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

https://awful.systems/post/5244605

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025 - awful.systems

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. Previous week [https://awful.systems/post/5168673]

Ed Zitron’s given his thoughts on GPT-5’s dumpster fire launch:

Personally, I can see his point - the Duke Nukem Forever levels of hype around GPT-5 set the promptfondlers up for Duke Nukem Forever levels of disappointment with GPT-5, and the “deaths” of their AI waifus/therapists this has killed whatever dopamine delivery mechanisms they’ve set up for themselves.

Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com)

I genuinely think GPT-5 may bring down generative AI. It broke the illusion with normies who thought ChatGPT was a friend or confidant or "brain storm machine," and I believe its new architecture is doing the very opposite of making it cheaper or more efficient.

Bluesky Social

@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard

Lol, Ed Zitron is a one person neo-luddite machine.
His entire website is one continuous anti AI spam.
Which is fine...but I was trying to find out why #chatgpt5 launch was a failure, according to him. But he fails at a "writer" to communicate that, so he's probably right that he fears he will be replaced by 2000 lines of code.

Can’t tell if you’re trolling or just willfully ignorant.

@BurgersMcSlopshot

Funny, that's what I think about folks who haven't touched AI since Eliza and somehow think their opinion about AI matters.

Intellectual (Non practicing, Lapsed)

indeed

not saying it’s always the supposed infosec instances, but

Tempted to make that my bio on some socmed site

@Self @awful.systems <- Mastodon's kiwifarms?

(Since we're taking potshots at supposed instances)

@awful.systems

ROFL accurate domain name...

Autodidact, Polymath

Why did you skip the funniest part?

as a treat for those who click through and share the pain!