Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the snowy 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. Merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, and happy holidays in general!)

idea: end of year worst of ai awards. “the sloppies”

On a related theme:

man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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James Vincent (@jjvincent.bsky.social)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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this made my day, thx
Sports Fact Lover (@lovesportsfacts.bsky.social)

On the other hand, the robot reacts with empathy, doubling over just like it got kicked in the gonads also. We may not be close to independent robots, but when we do, that empathy will go a long way way to stop them from annihilating us.

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From the replies:

Love how confident everyone is “correcting” you. Chatgpt is literally my son’s therapist, of course cutting edge AI can empathize with a guy getting kicked in the balls lmao

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

A pal: “I take back everything I ever said about humanoid robots being useless”