<![CDATA[Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026]]>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 so 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.)

]]>https://postcall.pub/topic/f85a48aa-0ac7-4d0d-8b0d-d70a947f296b/stubsack-weekly-thread-for-sneers-not-worth-an-entire-post-week-ending-13th-september-2026RSS for NodeTue, 13 Oct 2026 05:55:43 GMTMon, 07 Sep 2026 14:30:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:16:03 GMT]]>"there is a global far right conspiracy that attempts to reinvent alchemy, colonize space and build a machine god, which they intend to use to enslave everyone else. it's informed by misreading of old scifi and racism, but it only took off after certain hp fanfic was written. currently it's commanded by a californian polycule with a drug problem, but also counts in their ranks white house officials, and possibly some from russian government"

unfortunately this does not make a great conversation starter. whaat? a cult took over an entire government of south korea? this could never happen here

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12616989https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12616989Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:16:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:17:20 GMT]]>It helped that the first person I explained this to at a conference was explicitly working on deconstructing models of the origin of complex life that imply that it's slow and unlikely that have been uncritically accepted in a lot of circles without actual evidence, and he was already confused about why following the chain of citations bottomed out at weird economist named Robin Hanson and why his naive model was ever taken seriously... oh MAN we had a fun evening.

Amusingly enough, something much like this has happened to me twice two years apart. The scientists deconstructing this stuff are always the most interesting people too.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12616688https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12616688Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:17:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:13:22 GMT]]>right? and even then you have to go slow with explanation, otherwise you just sound like a crank

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12615796https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12615796Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:13:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:31:59 GMT]]>Good God. Sometimes I wonder how small the population that understands all these references and knows all this deep lore and history is. How few people really understand the true nature of this bunch of people and how their ideas have ruined so much. When I go to conferences I get to have 4 hour conversations over beer with astrobiologists explaining how ideas from a blog in 2009 started showing up uncited in their literature 8 years later (when late undergrads who read a blog post start writing papers during their PhDs) and have since completely fucked whole subfields. They are flabbergasted at first, but then they see it, and see the damage done. So few people actually see this.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12613172https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12613172Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:31:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:47:08 GMT]]>that's just "machine god will figure out relativity from three video frames" in another form

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12607029https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12607029Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:47:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:52:54 GMT]]>You'll forgive me, I'm neither lobotmised nor a mathematician.

The poster wants to slop into existance a language for stacking logical statements on top of each other and testing/prooving truthiness but the statements are what? Physics rules?

And once you have this um magic world simulator from first principles (since it would have to be, because the thing about science is we need to do the experiments since we don't know how things work fully) it will somehow stumble onto RTPSC materials?

K

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606821https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606821Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:52:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:17:32 GMT]]>arguably it's stupider than that

and this doesn't even go into whether pallet of lean spaghetti is in any way insightful, or does it explain anything, or does any of these things manmade proofs do

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606671https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606671Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:17:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:10:27 GMT]]>Somehow word association will beat density functional theory to the punch for mapping out theoretical materials, lol. Alright.

I'll believe that when pigs fly.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606650https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606650Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:10:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:17:00 GMT]]>wtf is deal of that segyges person. now they're convinced that openai will solve room temperature superconductors in silico real soon, because altman vagueposted about it

and this all based on lk-99 fraud case, nevermind that there's no high temperature superconductivity theory, or how prohibitively computationally expensive computational chemistry is, and i guess it's not accurate enough anyway, this all with people that do computational chemistry coming in their thread trying to explain this, then posts this

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606409https://postcall.pub/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12606409Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:17:00 GMT