(The spooks shall soon be upon us.)

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.)

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[–] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (9 children)

Creepy rationalist says the quiet part out loud.

("RMN" = "Red Means No" = CNC parties = Consensual Non-Consent parties = Pretend sexual assault parties)

EDIT: He elaborates.

EDIT: Allegations of sexual assault at Aella's slutcon.

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

    The author Wentworth was just awarded half a million dollars by Jaan Tallinn & Dustin Moskovitz to do "research" at Lightcone Infrastructure. I am going to sign out because I am starting to get thoughts which involve the RCAF and 500-pound bombs (so of course they use the middle school across the street as human shields). Rapists, apologists for racists, and protectors of rapists are the enemies of all mankind.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    How much of their budget goes towards registering under a novelty TLD?

    Also, is ‘MM’ supposed to mean something other than megamega or megamillion? I genuinely can’t work out why you wouldn’t stop at a single M.

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  • [–] 7 points 15 hours ago

    They get some replies

    ... ... I'm writing this mostly because I'm finding it horrifying that it appears the LessWrong consensus reality is treating "nonconsent" stuff as a cornerstone of how it views women. This somehow seems to increasingly to be the case, seems wrong to me, and contributes to the erasure of some things I consider important.

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago*

    I think many hardened kinksters, who have participated in or made the gear for things I can't imagine, would have questions about Aella's parties as described. So its not just those normies are just mindless NPCs following scripts.

    John Wentsworth featured in the retracted S.E. Gyges essay.

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