BlueMonday1984Feb 9

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

https://awful.systems/post/7225001

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 - 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 so 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.)

Show threadsansruseFeb 10

x.com/MrinankSharma/status/2020881722003583421

Anthropic safety research lead quits the field entirely to write poetry with a somewhat cryptic note. Trying to read between the lines here, the most likely explanation (IMO) is that he developed a guilty conscience and anthropic doesn’t actually give a shit about any of the human harms created by the technology. Ah well, nevertheless they persisted.

mrinank (@MrinankSharma) on X

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

X (formerly Twitter)
Show threadlurkerFeb 10

Anthropic doesn’t actually give a shit about any of the human harms created by the technology

It’s always been like that

The Utter Hypocrisy of Anthropic; and, How Anthropic Could Save the World From AI

Anthropic is more worried about AI than actual people. And, by losing its copyright lawsuit this December, it could potentially undermine the entire race to build AGI.

Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter
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you’re right, Amodei and others have published a lot of criti-hype, shameless hype, and delusional anthropomorphization in the past few years. While i was looking for other examples of their bullshit I found this article which was published just after my comment, with a nice sneer:

If Sharma has an angle here with his resignation, it doesn’t seem all that related to the industry he worked in. “I hope to explore a poetry degree and devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” he wrote. In the footnotes, he cited a book that advocates for a new school of philosophy called “CosmoErotic Humanism.” Its listed author, David J Temple, is a collective pseudonym used by several authors including by Marc Gafni, a disgraced New Age spiritual guru who’s been accused of sexually exploiting his followers.

Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter

The world is "in peril."

Yahoo Tech
Feb 11 at 4:37amWeb
Show threadlurkerFeb 11

it’s listed author, David J. Temple, is a collective pseudonym used by several authors including by Marc Gafni, a disgraced New Age spiritual guru who’s been accused of sexually exploiting his followers

why does shit always have to turn out weird

Show threadistewartFeb 11

a new school of philosophy called “CosmoErotic Humanism.”

I don’t know about all of that, but I do know that every major TV market in the country offers multiple chances per night for this poor fellow to re-devote himself to the poetry-in-motion of a certain other erotic Cosmo.