Want to wade into the spooky surf of the abyss? 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. Happy Halloween, everyone!)
KDE showing how it should be done:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/2025-October/009275.html
Question:
I am curious why you do not have a link to your X social media on your website. I know you are just forwarding posts to X from your Mastodon server. However, Iām afraid that if you pushed for more marketing on Xālike DHH and Ladybird doāthe hype would be much greater. I think you need a separate social media manager for the X platform.
Response:
We stopped posting on X for several reasons:
- The owner is a nazi
- The owner censors non- nazis and promotes nazis and their messages
- (Hence) most people who remain on X or are clueless and have difficulty parsing written text (one would assume), or are nazis
- Most of the new followers we were getting were nazi-propaganda spewing bots (7 out of 10 on average) or just straight up nazis.
Our community is not made up of nazis and many of our friendly contributors would be the target of nazi harassment, so we were not sure what we were doing there and stopped posting and left.
We are happy with that decision and have no intention of reversing it.
The follow-upās worth mentioning too:
Itās interesting theyāre citing specifically DHH and Ladybird as examples to follow, considering:
https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html
common KDE W
Think some of the KDE people are old school punkers so might not be a big shock.
after fedora announced that ai contributions are cool, this is really refreshing
back in ~my~ day cartel oligarchs would meet in secret to fix prices for products you cannot live without, then get a ton of profit and swim in money, while backstabbing one another at any opening with blackmail and assassins and whatnot. sometimes theyād fund a library or something to pretend they were philanthropists.
cartels these days make pretend products that nobody wants, then promise theyāre going to āinvestā one quadrillion dollars on the other oligarchās company to create more virtual husbandos, and the other company in turn promises theyāre going to buy one quadrilllion dollars of ācomputeā from the first company, so that both can report one quadrillion dollars of āgrowthā for doing absolutely nothing. like who are they even trying to impress here. then the oligarch hires people to pretend he can play Diablo. what happened to honest, salt-of-the-earth exploitation of the masses, huh. the boot stomping on my face is all cheap plastic nowadays. they gotta replace it every 3 years and the new model doesnāt even fit my face anymore. they donāt make cartels like they used to
Thatās like connecting a baking oven to a fridge and then marveling at the power of all the heat exchange
AI was capitalism all along etc etc
Moar like power the butt.
Ugh. Hank Green just posted a 1-hour interview with Nate Soares about That Book. Iām halfway through on 2x speed and so far zero skepticism of That Bookās ridiculous premises. I know itās not his field but I still expected a bit more from Hank.
A YouTube comment says it better than I could:
Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.
I can understand being concerned about the problems with the technology that exist now, but hyper-fixating on an unfalsifiable existential threat is stupid as it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.
āI can read HTML but not CSSā āEliezer Yudkowsky, 2021 (and since apparently scrubbed from the Internet, to live only in the sneers of fond memory)
Itās giving japanese mennonite reactionary coding
it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.
I am firmly on the side of itās possible to pay attention to more than one problem at a time, but the AI doomers are in fact actively downplaying stuff like climate change and even nuclear war, so them trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room is a legitimate problem.
Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.
That Yud is the Neil Breen of AI is the best thing ever written
about rationalismin a youtube comment.there is now a video on SciShow about it too.
This perception of AI as a competent agent that is inching ever so closer to godhood is honestly gaining way too much traction for my tastes. Thereās a guy in the comments of Hankās first video, I checked his channel and he has a video āWe Are Not Ready for Superintelligenceā and it got whopping 8 million views! Thereās another channel I follow for sneers and their video on Scottās AI 2027 paper has 3.7 and million views and a video about AI āattempted murderā has 8.5 million. Damn.
I wonder when the market finally realises that AI is not actually smart and is not bringing any profits, and subsequently the bubble bursts, will it change this perception and in what direction? I would wager that crashing the US economy will give a big incentive to change it but will it be enough?
I could also see the response to the bubble bursting being something like āAt least the economy crashing delayed the murderous superintelligence.ā
Iām betting on a new version of the āstabbed in the backā myth. Fash love that one.
@o7___o7 @ShakingMyHead itās a cult: it can never fail, it can only *be* failed
āWe would have been immortal God-Kings if not for you meddling (woke) kids!ā
I wonder when the market finally realises that AI is not actually smart and is not bringing any profits, and subsequently the bubble bursts, will it change this perception and in what direction? I would wager that crashing the US economy will give a big incentive to change it but will it be enough?
Once the bubble bursts, I expect artificial intelligence as a concept will suffer a swift death, with the many harms and failures of this bubble (hallucinations, plagiarism, the slop-nami, etcetera) coming to be viewed as the ultimate proof that computers are incapable of humanlike intelligence (let alone Superintelligenceā¢). There will likely be a contingent of true believers even after the bubbleās burst, but the vast majority of people will respond to the question of āCan machines think?ā with a resounding ānoā.
AIās usefulness to fascists (for propaganda, accountability sinks, misinformation, etcetera) and the actions of CEOs and AI supporters involved in the bubble (defending open theft, mocking their victims, cultural vandalism, denigrating human work, etcetera) will also pound a good few nails into AIās coffin, by giving the public plenty of reason to treat any use of AI as a major red flag.
I made it 30 minutes into this video before closing it.
What I like about Hank is that he usually reacts to community feedback and is willing to change his mind when confronted with new perspectives, so my hope is that enough people will tell him that Yud and friends are cranks and heāll do an update.
I dunno about that, recent knitting drama took a while to clear up, and Iām not sure if AI sceptics are as determined a crowd as pissed off knitters.
(Tl;dr on the drama: there was video on SciShow about knitting that many (myself included) felt was not well researched, misrepresented the craft, and had a misogynistic vibe. It took a lot of pressure from the knitting community to get, in order, a bad āapologyā, a better apology, and the video taken down.)
Employee at āplagiarism companyā defending transition to āplagiarism + pushing sex content onto children companyā insists that the reason they are pushing smut slop onto kids is due to their passion for creativity.
S-tier big brain ai safety researcher chimes in:
Masterful gambit, sir. Why didnāt we consider the fact that āautomating all labour would produce more revenueā?
I realize itās been poisoned since/by coiners, but god I hate that usage of ādemocratizeā
Just pretend that itās coming from a different root word āmocratizeā meaning the opposite of whatever the fuck crypto is doing
could I, like, not do that? would suit my needs better. kthx
thanks for asking.
Noof course
itās democratic if i couldnāt do it yesterday but i can do it today, even though itās not the same in any meaningful way
edit: in all seriousness, itās disgusting the way they are pretending there is some noble intention behind any of this.
yeah itās very much an intentional usage of poisoned language to construct a targeted outcome
but arrrrrrgh
As usual the libertarians are saying ādemocratizeā when they mean ācommodifyā.
What professional athlete is a) working for OpenAI and b) wants to turn Sora into the bottomless fountain of goon?
A horny one.
And just as importantly, free-sprinted
Oh God my brain is so used to turning typos into likely intended words that I missed āfree-sprintedā, which Iām going to guess in this context involves being athletic and horny and bottomless and possibly suffering from protein-powder-induced lead poisoning.
That might explain why copilot is a cum sprite
horny and bottomless
truly a hellish predicament
Lightly concealing his identity behind a generated anime avatar may be the wisest thing that kid ever did
The kid arguing for deepfake porn ofc sees no problem with Ghiblifying himself with his plagiarism machine. Total fucking douchebag status.
āHow dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?ā
Really, Colin?
I might be behind the curve on this one, but ice are now using halo (the computer game) images in recruitment ads, and referring to immigrants (and people who look like immigrants, i guess) as āthe floodā, the all-consuming alien horde who are one of the antagonists of the series.
Given how microsoft are happy to contribute to the development of the epstein ballroom, I can only assume that theyāre cool with all this.
https://aftermath.site/microsoft-halo-dhs-ice-trump-flood
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A screenshot of a twitter post by the department of homeland security, showing an image from the halo video game series and the text āfinishing this fightā, ādestroy the floodā and a link to ājoin ice govā.
bet they wouldnāt take kindly to Wolfenstein spamming in return
Unfortunately, the music director Marty O Donnell (iirc?) for og halo games is a bug trumper and ran for office. And he made absolute banger sound tracks too!
https://www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-developers-react
Dev team leads at least denouncing it as the disgusting shit it is.
Thatās depressingā¦ I really liked the music direction of halo. It really stood out to me in a way that other games never manage. I can still hum the halo theme and a bunch of its score, but Iād be hard pressed to do that with any other gameā¦ I know the elder scrolls theme, I guess, but canāt remember much else about their sound design.
if you enjoy older elder scrolls music, donāt ask too many questions about jeremy soule either.
Not so much āenjoyā as āremember at all, unlike most of the other games Iāve played in the last 10 years or soā, but I take your point.
at least the dude who writes most music for elder scrolls online seems to be decent enough.
Well, as far as I can tell, we still have Nile Rodgers.
NB: a few cocktails in. Donāt really have a point here. Everything sucks, including this.
Halo: CE was written in the late 90s in the US, so itās pretty clear that it exists as a metaphor for conflict in the Middle East. Itās initially humans (really space 'muricans) vs. the covenant (an ancient, religious empire with many references to abrahamic religion). The MC is a genetically modified supersoldier. Most shooters are fascistic military propaganda, intentional or no.
Bungie made Marathon before Halo and itās basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many āintegratedā species. Itās a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.
OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pforās leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and thereās an eldrich horror living in a star too.
Hey now, itās also a clearly copy and pasted plagiarism of James Cameronās Aliens!
I got more āthe thingā vibes, tbh.
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Master Chief, you mind telling me what you are doing on that ICE propaganda?
Performing the SPARTAN Programās original aim, sir.
hmmm, gotta name my future scifi franchiseās augmented monastic space marin-time infantry supersoldiers THEBANs
(yes homo)
Yeah silence is being complicit in this case.
Trump also posted an image of him in the masterchief suit. Without a helmet. Halo is not my thing but I think that is a thing which is not done, like with judge dredd, the helmet stays on.
Apologies for doing journal club instead of sneer club.
Voiseux, G., Tao Zhou, R., & Huang, H.-C. (Brad). (2025). Accepting the unacceptable in the AI era: When & how AI recommendations drive unethical decisions in organizations. Behavioral Science & Policy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23794607251384574
abstract:
In todayās workplaces, the promise of AI recommendations must be balanced against possible risks. We conducted an experiment to better understand when and how ethical concerns could arise. In total, 379 managers made either one or multiple organizational decisions with input from a human or AI source. We found that, when making multiple, simultaneous decisions, managers who received AI recommendations were more likely to exhibit lowered moral awareness, meaning reduced recognition of a situationās moral or ethical implications, compared with those receiving human guidance. This tendency did not occur when making a single decision. In supplemental experiments, we found that receiving AI recommendations on multiple decisions increased the likelihood of making a less ethical choice. These findings highlight the importance of developing organizational policies that mitigate ethical risks posed by using AI in decision-making. Such policies could, for example, nudge employees toward recalling ethical guidelines or reduce the volume of decisions that are made simultaneously.
so is the moral decline a side effect, or technocapitalism working as designed.
so is the moral decline a side effect, or technocapitalism working as designed.
AI is an accountability sink by design, its technocapitalism working as designed
as a bonus, itās also fascist!
I would adore an awful journal club tbh
Grokipedia just dropped: https://grokipedia.com/
Itās a bunch of LLM slop that someone encouraged to be right wing with varying degrees of success. I wonāt copy paste any slop here, but to give you an idea:
- Grokipediaās article on Wikipedia uses the word āideologicalā or āideologicallyā 23 times (compared with Wikipedia using it twice in itās Wikipedia article).
- Any articles about transgender topics tend to mix in lots of anti-transgender misinformation / slant, and use phrases like ārapid-onset gender dysphoriaā or ābiological malesā. The last paragraph of the article āThe Wachowskisā is downright unhinged.
- The articles tend to be long and meandering. I doubt even Grokipedia proponents will ultimately get much enjoyment out of it.
Also certain articles have this at the bottom:
The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Decided to check the Grokipedia āarticleā on the Muskrat out of morbid curiosity.
I havenāt seen anything this fawning since that one YouTube video which called him, and I quote its title directly, āThe guy who is saving the worldā.
Interesting that for the musk article, it has the āsee editsā button disabled. ha
E:
I peeked under the hood, āsee editsā data is in page.fixedIssues on the api, ripe for scraping: https://grokipedia.com/api/page?slug=StarCraft_II&includeContent=false
The computer-science section of the arXiv has declared that they canāt put up with all your shit any more.
arXivās computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being considered for submission to arXivās CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. When submitting review articles or position papers, authors must include documentation of successful peer review to receive full consideration. Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv.
from the folks who brought you
weāve trained a model to regurgitate 19th century pseudoscience
the field of computer science presents: How to destroy a public good by skipping all the required reading in your liberal arts courses
And on the subject of microsoft, this is a splendid way to describe the both that specific company, the us tech sector as a whole and entire us government for that matter:
āWe will build the tools of genocide, but never a sex botā is such a condemnation of American society lolsob
https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/115452105359019979
It was posted in reference to this article on the MIT technology review site, which gets an archive link because it has two overlapping cookie opt-out popups: https://archive.is/KhMqT
It is an interview with microsoftās mustafa suleyman, their head of ai. For all he claims to think that chatbots pretending to be people is bad, I donāt see him actually doing a whole lot about it.
but never a sex bot
Not speaking for myself (because we were a gamecube household) but based on my internet travels, Cortana (from Halo, also in subject) was a sexual awakening for a lot of people. So maybe when he says āweā he only means the present cohort of microsofties.
Yeah, skintight palmtop hologram cortana certainly ticked some boxes there, but in-universe it was all a bit āeveryone is beautiful, no-one is hornyā, with a side order of āall assistants should be female and sexyā, to my mind at least.
two overlapping cookie opt-out popups:
Love when this happens and on your phone you cant even reach the buttons. The lost art of testing your websites.
The lost art of testing your websites.
i run with javascript disabled by default, and itās actually refreshing when a website at least displays āthis shit requires javascript lolā instead of just not working
the modern web sucks, letās all train ravens like asoiaf
To start this spooky Stubsack off, thereās signs Framework are being slow on the refunds:
Just a heads up I havenāt gotten a refund from my cancelled FW12 order. Framework seems to be having trouble figuring it out.
I donāt know why, maybe it is Canada or maybe it is a high volume of similar requests, but it is a sign I always find concerning in a company I am worried about the financial stability of.
Could be nothing, but if you have been wavering on a cancellation I figured you might want a heads up.
This comes two weeks after Frameworkās public fash turn, and just a few days after their latest double down. āGo fash, lose cashā proves itself again.
iām trying to sell mine now
but also i donāt have any other computers and probably canāt afford anything
time for me to learn to use a pencil
The market should be flooded with used business laptops that canāt be upgraded to Windows 11 but will take an easy Linux distro
oh fuck, i didnāt think of that! thank you for the idea š
lightly used thinkpads are the classic choice for this ā IT departments buy high spec ones then dump them for cheap a few years later in surplus sales or on eBay, and there are usually repair manuals and spare parts readily available. usually you can type the specific model and generation into a search and get a wiki page or at least a couple blog posts reporting how well theyāre supported under linux, and Lenovo seems to intentionally do very well on compatibility since Linux compatibility is a nice checkbox for an enterprise laptop to have. just be careful you donāt get bamboozled into buying any of Lenovoās consumer laptops, since they tend to be a fair bit cheaper and donāt have the same compatibility guarantees, repairability, or ample spare parts availability.
For sale: lenovo thinkpad, lightly used
-Earnest Hempingway
my laptop is a budget model from 2016 and it runs xfce smoothly and happily lol. i code on it and watch streams and play slay the spire and all the usual stuff. idk how the stylus changes things but the required specs for doing quite a lot with linux are negligible
thank you for the suggestion, this is good stuff.
Was on the lookout about a year ago, didnāt find promising enough back than, granted only checked a few places. Granted, I did want an ok GPU.
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As highly requested
who the fuck requests this shit, these people, their customers, their products and dcs could be swallowed by earth tomorrow with only upsides for everyone else
WTF I was doing all this in EMACS in 2008.
lord, this is so cursed, especially the gambling (though you could say all vibe coding is gambling, ha)
wait this isnāt a joke this is a yc funded startup
It also integrates Stake into your IDE, so you can ruin yourself financially whilst ruining the companyās codebase with AI garbage
this is not web scale, you need crypto trading to scale gambling losses
Almost gave this a reflexive down vote. Even for YC, this startup is tremendously awful.
Thank you for sharing!
long hand of casey newton (by proxy) outputs a weird hit piece on ed zitron in wired https://archive.is/chsCw so far bluesky in shambles with no other effects
i have mixed feelings here. on the one hand, a lot of the article hinges on the suggestion that zitron is somehow concealing that he works with AI companies. iāve listened to his podcast, iāve read his articles, he is pretty up front about what his day job is and that he is a disappointed fanboy for tech. the dots are 1/1000th of an inch apart. it also devotes a remarkable amount of time to remarks from casey newton and the like, who have nothing to offer the world.
on the other hand, i do find it genuinely repulsive that heāll work with a company like DoNotPay. while it might be hackwork to suggest heās concealing it, I donāt like the association whether heās open about it or not.
on theā¦ third hand? when iāve read his posts, iāve found myself totally unable to evaluate his financial claims. the evidence always seems unimpeachable, i just do not know whether the conclusions he draws from that evidence make sense, so i never cite him. i think a more honest and interesting version of this article, one that went further than trying to insinuate heās an ignorant fraud, would involve collaborating with someone with a lot of financial expertise and examining how rigorous his work actually is. but wired apparently wasnāt interested in trying to make that article happen
He, or someone, should work with Bethany McLean on checking Zitronās work. She cowrote The Smartest Guys In The Room about Enron in 2003 and a book about the 2008 financial crisis. In 2001 she wrote about thinking something was hinky about Enronās financial filings.
I think Zitron has posted that none of these companies is profitable. Midjourney claims to be making a profit since 2024 although that depends on not paying for the IP they use etc. etc. etc. (and private companies can claim all kinds of things about their balance sheets without the CEO going to jail if they are creative).
his conclusions are a lot more complex than ānone of these companies is profitableā
none
When faced with a long complicated argument outside your competence, its a really useful heuristic to spot-check a few sections and assume that if they are wrong the whole structure is flawed. And at least as many readers will take away the soundbites like ānone of these companies is profitableā and āpathetic revenuesā as any nuanced version that is hidden in there. At critics of spicy autocomplete go he is really far on the āpunditā end of the āacademic to punditā scale (well past our David Gerard).
i see. i misunderstood your previous post, thought you meant that ānone of these companies is profitableā is essentially his only conclusion and that you considered it justifiable enough
I think Zitron has some important analysis mixed up with the clickbait and the populist rhetoric. I thought he was trying to be a full-time blogger but now I see he runs a one-person PR business (!)
looks pretty good to me, Iād be delighted to produce this sort of work and heās doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.
Its too bad that Patrick McKenzie sided with the promptfondlers because he was a useful ally calling āwe need more reporting on cryptocurrency by journalists who can read a balance sheet and do arithmeticā
iāve listened to his podcast, iāve read his articles, he is pretty up front about what his day job is and that he is a disappointed fanboy for tech. the dots are 1/1000th of an inch apart.
For comparison Iāve only read Edās articles, not listened to his podcasts, and I was unaware of his PR business. This doesnāt make me think his criticisms are wrong, but it does make me concerned heās overlooked critiquing and analyzing some aspects of the GenAI industry because of these connections to those aspects.
Baldur Bjarnasonās (indirectly) given his thoughts on the piece, treating its existence (and the subsequent fallout) as a cautionary tale on why journalistic practices exist and how conflicts of interest can come back to haunt you.
(In particular, Baldur notes that Zitron couldāve nipped this problem in the bud by firing his AI-related clients after he became the premier AI critic.)
Zitron was a blogger now, doing enjoyable bloggy things like hanging rude epithets on CEOs and antagonizing the normie tech media. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, the hosts of the New York Timesā relatively bullish Hard Fork podcast, quickly became prime targets. Theyāre too friendly with their subjects, says Zitron, who called Hard Fork a case study in journalists using ātheir power irresponsibly.ā He recalls having pitched Newton once in his capacity as a flack, but nothing came of it. Newton, for his part, remembers meeting Zitron somewhere, maybe a decade ago, and Zitron saying something like, āI would really like to be friends.ā Nothing came of that, either.
I will choose to read this as: newton mad that they arent pals with zitron
TBH I am neutral on zitron. I donāt read his stuff on the reg, just when it pops up here and I feel like it. We all belong to the same hypocrisy. If heās pushed AI companies before through his PR firm, that sucks.
Maybe more importantly, for his readers and listeners, Zitron holds out the seductive promise of some great comeuppance for the industry. Justice, of some kind, for an audience that isnāt seeing much of it in evidence anywhere. āI do not think this is a real industry,ā he has written, āand I believe that if we pulled the plug on the venture capital aspect tomorrow it would evaporate.ā When On the Media asked how he could be so certain that a collapse was coming, he replied, āI feel it in my soul.ā
Yeah this cannot be bad journalism, it has to be intellectual dishonesty. Someone paid for a hit piece for sure.
Ah that explains why people were talking about Ed critics. When it reached my feed it had already devolved into other convos about Zitron haters.
(And yes he isnt flawless, but that just means we need more people in the anti AI space).
In my day people were ashamed of being mad in the newspaper.
wint @dril 29 Dec 2014 and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
It is sunday, so time to make some posts almost nobody will see. I generated a thing:
Image description
3 screenshots from a The Simpsons episode. Bart is sitting in his class and the whole class in the first panel says āSay the lineā with eyes filled with expectation and glee, next panel a sad downlooking Bart says āAI is the future and we all need to get on boardā, third panel everybody but Bart cheers.
Found out about a new space junk startup today.
One bold new startup is looking to cash in on the frenzy with a particularly bizarre approach: a massive array of space mirrors meant to reflect the Sunās light down to paying subscribers.
The company has yet to launch any of the 4,000 satellite mirrors it sold in its far-out pitch. However, the startup recently applied for a license with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a 60-by-60 foot demo craft in April of 2026, Space.com reported this week. Thatās after winning a $1.25 million contract from the US Air Force, of all places, on top of a $20 million Series A funding round to build out its āsunlight on demandā service, which Reflect says will āstrengthen the national defense of the United States of America.ā
Astronomers, however, arenāt so gung-ho about the idea of a massive space mirror blinding the Earth with Sunlight.
āThe reflectors will be directing their light [even after they pass their target] because obviously they canāt shut that off,ā John Berentine, an astronomer at the Silverado Hills Observatory told Space.com. āThe beam reflected by these satellites is very intense, four times brighter than the full moon, and they will be flying multiple satellites in a formation. That will have an effect on wildlife in the directly illuminated area, but also, through atmospheric scattering, on the surrounding areas as well.āThis has never been tried before and is a completely new idea.
@sundogplanets was posting about this not too long ago, Iāll try find the thread a bit later
e: thread
Check out the graphics on their homepage. It has that terrible āscroll drivenā web-design but the graphics look like placeholder art cooked up by a programmer.
Usually these sorts of VC bait companies at least hire a graphics designer but I guess thatās not actually necessary.
That has to be intentionally bad.
yepp, unmistakeable
programmer placeholder graphics, least isnāt Aplle-product-level rowser bugout bad> The Sun is a huge fusion reactor that supports all life on Earth.
I think youāll find that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace
