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sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
3·18 days agowas there an ownership change or something? this is atrocious
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
9·21 days agoNew pride month Odium Symposium episode. We go through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
4·29 days agoi don’t think she should be allowed to say “the ghetto.” doesn’t matter whether it’s problematic when someone else says it, she definitely doesn’t get to
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
8·29 days agoi have already seen ai enthusiasts make quite clear that they imagine the purpose of formal theorem verification is to act as a bolt on for llms
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
3·29 days agoshe badly underestimates my capacities as a hater
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
6·1 month agonew odium symposium episode (at the link and on all platforms). we talk to professor of africana studies danielle procope bell about her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere.”
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026English
2·1 month agooh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026English
1·1 month agoanyone know of activities you can do to improve your mic skills? looked around a bit for open mics in my area, not a lot going on
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
5·1 month agofun fact: even vixra has had an anti ai paper policy for idk how long, at least ten months
https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3lsek4cpnpk2n
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English
10·1 year agorightwing ‘pro child’ policy in practice always seems to consist of oppressing women and gesturing vaguely when asked how this fixed anything
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English
8·1 year agothey have billionaire bank rollers. since the reality of our media system is that you hear a lot about whatever billionaires want you to hear about, they are covered
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English
8·1 year agothis is completely unvarnished, OG, third reich nazism, so I’m pretty sure it’s the first, except without the faking it part: I expect his view to be that if you had examined future homeless people closely enough it always would have been possible to tell that they were doomed subhumans
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English
7·1 year agothis and the pro slavery reply might be the most overt orange site nazism I’ve seen
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English
11·1 year agooh but what if bro…
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English
15·1 year agooccurring to me for the first time that roko’s basilisk doesn’t require any of the simulated copy shit in order to big scare quotes “work.” if you think an all powerful ai within your lifetime is likely you can reduce to vanilla pascal’s wager immediately, because the AI can torture the actual real you. all that shit about digital clones and their welfare is totally pointless
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English
12·1 year agoyou will never guess which company hired oswald mosely’s grandson
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/palantir-boss-interview-keir-starmer-gets-ai
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English
1·1 year agodeleted by creator
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English
23·1 year agodon’t want to spam the stubsack with US politics but guys I am awfully scared
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English
5·1 year agoit’s a fucking harry potter reference











New Odium Symposium episode: we look at Charles Krauthammer and his pretentious and racist best-of collection, Things That Matter.
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/19-nightmare-161582344