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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

AI is important. But we don’t yet fully know why.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago

Cal Newport jumpscare (some productivity “influencer” who anxious teen me read)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago

looks like the group is called Collective Shout https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (8 children)

Looks like itch.io has (hidden/removed/disabled payouts for? reports vary) its vast swath of NSFW-adjacent content which is not great

addendum: itch.io finally put out a statement https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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How Tech Bros Hijacked the Government | Alex Avila (youtu.be)
 

covers some of the usual suspects here

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

prior stubsack from last year

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SIGBOVIK 2025 Proceedings (sigbovik.org)
 

“Not awful” is maybe a bit suspect, but at least they’re entertaining :)

Renowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanfic in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (13 children)

strange æons takes on hpmor :o

https://youtu.be/TKMzmOYcEUE

Apple Intelligence: AI Siri crashes and burns, takes exec with it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

appreciated the intro music on this one

Linux users failing to respect trans Linux developers in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

It didn’t scroll for me either but there’s a reply by this corbet person with a highlighted background which I assume is the one intended to be linked to

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
 

archive.today link

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Caves of Qud’s Spring Molting update released today! (youtube.com)
 

The new UI elements are very cool imo

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