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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • fortunately, yud clarified everything in his recent post concerning the zizians, which indicated that... uh, hmm, that we should use a prediction market to determine whether it's moral to sell LSD to children. maybe he got off track a little

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • most well adjusted terf

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • 2d6 psychic damage

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • just found out about the incredibly dystopian US prison "ADX"

    Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space. The prison, formally called United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility but better known as ADX, has earned the nickname “The Alcatraz of the Rockies” because of its harsh conditions.

    Contact with others is extremely limited; programming, such as anger management or religious services, is broadcast over televisions in the cells, while psychological evaluations happen through the steel doors. Belongings are also strictly limited and prisoners aren’t allowed to hang photographs or drawings on their walls. Exercise time out the cell happens alone inside large cages called “dog runs”, where prisoners can only walk a few paces each direction. Prisoners are given virtual reality goggles to simulate the outdoors or community. A former warden once called ADX a “clean version of hell,” and said that living there was “far much worse than death.” Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are both incarcerated at ADX.

    https://boltsmag.org/death-row-clemency-adx-supermax/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • ooh it's too bad we've already recorded the next episode because this comment would 100% have made it into the discussion (about half the episode is a breakdown of sartre's theory of the bigot's psychology). what you're saying about loud and proud racism as an internal integrative element makes so much sense to me. economic libertarians want to dissolve the state and that's in tension with their (economic, emotional, whatever) reliance on the state. you can resolve the dissonance of that contradiction by making it your mission to organize society along racial lines

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Fourth episode of our podcast about historical misogynist and bigoted texts, odium symposium, is out now. We discuss classic british racist enoch powell and his “rivers of blood” speech.

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/144105193

    (it should be available on every platform)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • another analogy might be an ancient builder who gets really good at building pyramids, and by pouring enormous amounts of money and resources into a project manages to build a stunningly large pyramid. "im now going to build something as tall as what will be called the empire state building," he says.

    problem: he has no idea how to do this. clearly some new building concepts are needed. but maybe he can figure those out. in the meantime he's going to continue with this pyramid design but make them even bigger and bigger, even as the amount of stone required and the cost scales quadratically, and just say he's working up to the reallyyyyy big building...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • well, I can't counter it because I don't think they do know how it works. the theory is shallow yet the outputs of, say, an LLM are of remarkably high quality in an area (language) that is impossibly baroque. the lack of theory and fundamental understanding presents a huge problem for them because it means "improvements" can only come about by throwing money and conventional engineering at their systems. this is what I've heard from people in the field for at least ten years.

    to me that also means it isn't something that needs to be countered. it's something the context of which needs to be explained. it's bad for the ai industry that they don't know what they're doing

    EDIT: also, when i say the outputs are of high quality, what i mean is that they produce coherent and correct prose. im not suggesting anything about the utility of the outputs

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • it's probably better for my development as a human being to learn this properly, but it turns out github pages hosting does the letsencrypt process if you check a box in the page settings

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • further things: one, that’s the first website I’ve made where I wasn’t just plugging into a template, and I’m a little proud of it even though it’s almost nothing. I would appreciate feedback and suggestions

    two, a future episode idea I have is to examine what I’m thinking of as “the trustless society.” it’s about the replacing of social relations with legal or financial intermediaries. Those of you who are long time buttcoiners will be familiar with this process. if any of you have specific readings to recommend I would love to hear it. I’ll probably mostly focus on balaji but anyone or anything will help

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • I haven't touched image generators and idk how different their products are, if at all. but I think of this as the default AI "illustrated" style. very low on detail outside of the objects of focus, heavy line work, flat, rounded, muted colors

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • frankly that's the most detailed I've seen it get. usually it's more like this

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • just drop it through a hole in the floor of the floor of the dyson sphere

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • i see. i misunderstood your previous post, thought you meant that "none of these companies is profitable" is essentially his only conclusion and that you considered it justifiable enough