this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
24 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1490 readers
34 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rook@awful.systems 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In further bluesky news, the team have a bit of an elon moment and forget how public they made everything.

https://bsky.app/profile/miriambo.bsky.social/post/3ldq2c7lu6c25 (only readable if you are logged in to bluesky) Good morning. Let me check if I’ve got this right. Juni created a bot that shows what Aaron (head of trust and safety) likes. His likes are public information. Aaron likes a porn post. Trust and safety ban the bot and creator in 16 minutes. Creator appeals and ban is upheld

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago

the team have a bit of an elon moment

"Oh shit, which one of them endorsed the German neo-Nazis?"

Aaron likes a porn post

"Whew."