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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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. A lot of people didn’t survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my account’s cake day, too, so that’s cool.)

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mirrorwitch@awful.systems
mirrorwitch@awful.systems
@mirrorwitch@awful.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

“Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech’s $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off”

cnbc.com/…/ai-sell-off-stocks-amazon-oracle.html

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dovel@awful.systems
dovel@awful.systems
@dovel@awful.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

It seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good! The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Talisyn Tailfeather
Talisyn Tailfeather
@talisyn@furry.engineer replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@dovel @BlueMonday1984 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

Medium

Welcome to Gas Town

Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
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Sailor Sega Saturn
Sailor Sega Saturn
@sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

The first issue filed is called “Hello world does not compile” so you can tell it’s off to a good start. Then the rest of the six pages of issues appear to be mostly spam filed by some AI guy’s rogue chatbot.

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o7___o7@awful.systems
o7___o7@awful.systems
@o7___o7@awful.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Tangentially on topic:

Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I’ll ikely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I’m hopeful that it’ll win all the awards.

Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:

  1. In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol

  2. Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.

  3. Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@o7___o7 @techtakes That's why I'm fleeing screaming back to the arms of far-future space opera ATM.

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