Want to wade into the snowy 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.
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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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isnāt it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Iām doing this shitey online optional module for my college course because I left it too late to pick a proper one, and Christ in heaven people are using a lot of AI. This is meant to be a class about sustainability
My wife has been saying the same thing about her accounting courses. Itās absolutely nuts.
in the fall of 2024, i was getting teams messages from my students that were clearly llm-generated
i have to assume itās only gotten worse
Genuinely donāt understand how dependent these people are on AI. āIāll generate an image of a skeleton at a bus stopā one of them said (it was relevant). Iāll go to Google images, I said. Itās faster! And you donāt end up with a mangled version of the Dublin Bus logo!
Iāve started seeing people make paperwork with explicit carve-outs for prompt use (merely referred to as āAIā with no explicit definition, so ā¦. gonna be fun when the lawsuits start)