Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.)

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

Ars Technica

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

To lightly paraphrase Yahtzee Croshaw:

Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant hype-mongering cockbags.

This is the second time this rancid idea has been put forward, and its just as morally bankrupt as the first.

‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?

JAMA Internal Medicine presents an opinion article: “Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?” The authors, three doctors from UCSF, don’t seem to have heard…

Pivot to AI
What, are you telling me you’re not prepared to share your most intimate details with elon musk’s edgelord/waifu simulator in order to let it pretend to be you well enough to fool a bunch of professionals who should know better, and let it decide whether you should live or die? With a marketing pitch like that, who could possibly refuse?
I know full well you’re being sarcastic, but my answer is an emphatic “NO”. I feel like I’m gonna need a lobotomy to get this hypothetical out my head now.
Yahtzee, now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Guy’s been doing well for himself since the Escapist imploded in 2023 - he’s doing video reviews and video essays over on Second Wind, under the names Fully Ramblomatic and Semi Ramblomatic, respectively.

(As for the Escapist, it got sold off to a “private investor” and turned into a gambling content mill in 2025)

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