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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

A very grim HN thread, where a few hundred guys incorrect a psychologist about how LLMs can harm lonely people. Since I am currently enjoying a migraine I can't trust my gut feelings here, but it seems particularly eugh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766508

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

That's what I'm gonna call those weird hip thruster moves people do in the squat rack

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cocaine is good, actually, if used in moderation

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago

I guarantee that this guy thinks he could fight a bear.

vibe coders discover "coding" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

Crassus as a Service

vibe coders discover "coding" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hold up, I think you might have replied to the wrong post

vibe coders discover "coding" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Turkey has a big opportunity here to corner the market for non-mechanical turks

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, poots

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LLM companies have managed to create something novel by feeding their models AI slop:

A human centipede with no humans in it

Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

A delightful case of old school trolling, deserves a high five, a++

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hope you whoop his ass (legally speaking)

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north (www.reuters.com)
 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence (firstmonday.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

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Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters (web.archive.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital (sfstandard.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
28 comments fedilink
 

John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets (gizmodo.com)
 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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