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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] 6 points 1 day ago

I recall seeing bits of this (their racist treatment of black workers in the factories as well as the culture of keeping it going) kick around on twitter as far back as 2019 (iirc), so now I’m wondering - is it not widely known?

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    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    [–] 3 points 6 days ago*

    hmm, interesting that that made it as far as a news article - shows the concerns around bubble pop are ... more prevalent than some would like to admit

    I imagine there's more than a few "we've branded ourselves AI because that's where the money is but oh shit it's not such a great look now.." companies out there at the moment who are working on how to update their positioning

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I’m curious about this one, legal repercussions against the perpetrator seem pretty clearly viable (it would seem to me that Science has a viable fraud case, and Williams for probably a few too). why wouldn’t anyone do that? is that not the done thing in academia?

    the network effects of reputational damage are pretty oof though :|

    this shit should be regulated into the dustbin of history. relatedly, the recent release of unredacted docs from the NYT vs OpenAI case showing the clear knowledge of theft and substitution… it’s all willingly done

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    [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    I don’t know enough about Chinese state security apparatus to comment about that aspect but I’ve seen some mentions of how the state there is also heavily pushing prompts everywhere, and it’s apparently just as shit a failure as it is in the western sphere…so, could be fucked either way

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    but, who the hell gave them $100k for this?

    the third name is a vc-type, and I bet it won’t take much scratching to find that linked to our good friends and the ongoing public image adjustment campaign that’s seeing funding from a few corners

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    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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    seeking input - android apps for things (awful.systems)
     

    in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

    I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

    immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

    judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

    tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024 (awful.systems)
     

    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.

    Last week's thread

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

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024 (awful.systems)
     

    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.

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