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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
itās possibly a distinction without a meaningful difference, but I wouldnāt say theyāre selling shovels - this shit is more like renting out shovels. or maybe timeshare?
Iād love to see a postmortem on deals and developmentā¦ I have some suspicions on how it all got in this mess to start with (largely āif we sink piles of capex now to corner the market on the magical future, we can totes make it through 5y!ā type variations), but I want to see if Iām right
see the funny thing is that ms et al are walking back/scaling down their deployment plans, but thatās all partial on the whole. microsoft isnāt going to completely explode overnight the moment everyone groks llms are trash, even though theyāre gonna take a hit
the entities like coreweave whose entire existence is predicated on the fairy tale, howeverā¦
(I am still worried about the multi-industry downstream impact of when this shit finally pops though, it is going to be nasty)