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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025

awful.systems/post/3781099

awful.systemsStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025 - awful.systemsNeed 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Reuters: Quantum computing, AI stocks rise as Nvidia kicks off annual conference.

Some nice quotes in there.

Investors will focus on CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote on Tuesday to assess the latest developments in the AI and chip sectors,

Yes, that is sensible, Huang is very impartial on this topic.

“They call this the ‘Woodstock’ of AI,”

Meaning, they’re all on drugs?

“To get the AI space excited again, they have to go a little off script from what we’re expecting,”

Oh! Interesting how this implies the space is not “excited” anymore… I thought it’s all constant breakthroughs at exponentially increasing rates! Oh, it isn’t? Too bad, but I’m sure nVidia will just pull an endless amounts of bunnies out of a hat!

Pedro Pascal's Wager

@nightsky @BlueMonday1984 maybe it's the Woodstock `99 of AI and it ends with Fred Durst instigating a full-on riot