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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • Polycule implies some level of ongoing relationship that probably involves more than just meeting up for sex.

    Source: I live in Somerville, Massachusetts

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • Despite the explicit exhortation to take the good parts from new things and integrate them into your own thinking, and the assertion that Campbellian SF teaches this, neither Yud nor any of the commenters seem to appreciate the possibility of doing this with cyberpunk. For them, if a story does not include a scientist expositing his ideas, it cannot be a story with ideas. The slightest amount of flourish in the prose makes even rather blunt themes like "the street will find its own uses for things" and "the rich are not even human" completely invisible.

    When I was a youngster (before I had developed any such notion as "taste"), my SF reading ran the gamut from A Wrinkle In Time and The Giver, to The Caves of Steel, to The Ophiuchi Hotline. (I didn't finish The Difference Engine for the same reason I didn't finish Foundation: Stopping the book and starting over with all new characters confounded and discouraged me. So, I expect that Valis would have been too much for me, but that I might have finished A Scanner Darkly or Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.) When I tried to write an SF novel myself, it obviously ended up trying to do all those things. The native Martians had destroyed themselves and ruined their planet in nuclear war; one tiny faction tried to survive by turning themselves into data patterns in the computer of a subterranean city from which they could be resynthesized. One of the scientists on the human team investigsting the city millions of years later is the victim of social bias because he has a rare illness that both causes blindness and makes his body reject cybernetic implants. It eventually turns out that this illness is due to an ancient, noncorporeal life form trying to form a symbiotic relationship. Et cetera.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • Yud:

    I didn't stick to merely the culture I was raised in, because that wasn't what that culture said to do. The characters I read didn't keep to the way they were raised. They were constantly being challenged with new ideas and often modified or partially rejected those ideas in the course of absorbing them.

    Also Yud: ewww Neuromancer is icky

    Yud:

    But if you consider me to be more than usually intellectually productive for an average Ashkenazic genius in the modern generation

    It's not just a load-bearing if, it's a conditional that manages to be vaguely racist under all the smug. C-c-combo move!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • nakedly fantasizing

    Worst mental image of the day

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection

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  • The last evil will be defeated using the sign of the cool S

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • Your Art has stagnated. You are going in circles. Maybe you’re inching forward, it’s hard to tell, but if you are, it’s not enough. What happened to your tsuyoku naritai?

    Note to self: revise manifesto to be 22% less weeb

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  • a leaderless cult had freshly formed

    a Stand Alone Complex, but with slop

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • "I had the Nazi CSAM generator make a picture of myself covered in the piss filter, your argument is invalid."

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Tired: "model collapse"

    Wired: goblins ate my model

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Bryan Johnson also has free unsolicited sex tips for men on twitter

    Every day, new cursed text. That's the awful.systems promise!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Alleging widespread financial fraud?! How absurd! And to prove just how absurd it is, I will namedrop the infamous financial fraud from the industry full of exactly the same people. Checkmate atheists

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens

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  • The singularity of manosphere chud lingo and CEO babble... angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • "I use AI sparingly for" is the new "I only do meth before my hookups for unprotected sex with strangers".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • I feel a bit regretful sometimes that none of my copious fanfic output has inspired anyone to draw fanart. But at least no one has gotten weird about it, either.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • Ziz has always had a tendency to express her ideas through metaphors in fiction that are familiar to her. We spoke at length about Contessa and Doctor Mother from Worm; the Wardens from World of Warcraft; Frisk, Sans, and especially Undyne from Undertale; Tassadar from Starcraft; Harry and Dumbledore from HPMOR; Iji.

    Does "read a second book" apply here, or is this a "read a first book" situation?

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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Food Memories

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    Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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    Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

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