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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • i 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

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • she badly underestimates my capacities as a hater

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • new 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."

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/17-introduction-159058420

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • oh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • so we now have an invitation to do an episode of posting through it, which is a (really really good) podcast on the far right. we pick a topic, no other specifics. i am thinking this can be something to do with rationalists and the far right, probably something race sciencey.

    SSC leaps to mind but im not sure that's where ill want to start for an audience that doesn't necessarily know anything about rats. any thoughts?

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

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  • it's a golden... bowler hat?

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

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  • i feel like people in real life would be far less likely to press the red button, because twitter is almost wall to wall nazis and real life is not

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

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  • When I was about 12, I got into a discussion about the environment with another kid at school. She told me that it didn’t matter if we ruined the environment of the countries we all live in now, because we could all just move to the Arctic or Antarctica.

    this is the level the median hackernews poster thinks on

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

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  • anthropic is the most moral ai company in the universe

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

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  • guys

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • People generally do not like being killed.

    source?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • i'm in the middle of freefalling down a research rabbit hole and ran across this person decrying curtis yarvin as a fake monarchist who doesn't understand what makes REAL monarchism good:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1iy4fto/moldbug_morons_and_monarchism_an_xpost_of_my/

    someone in the replies asks the obvious question

    Ok but what stops the monarch from being a tyrant

    and their answer is that you can just kill the monarch

    It's still One Person. A mortal, fleshy person. Their defence is that they're inoffensive, things are stable, nothing is directly their fault and people are bound by law and oath. But if they screw up badly enough that the things they're supposed to do don't happen? There's more of everyone else than One Person.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • new odium symposium episode is now available on all platforms. we look Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini's Gender Without Identity, a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. then we look at a case study in which it all goes wrong.

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/14-just-call-me-155052365

    also we're starting a discord for the podcast https://discord.gg/7tEEE39Fx

    also also we're going to release our first subscriber episode next week, where we look at the pseudoscientists of paper repository viXra

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026

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  • i love seeing tracing pop up! a true heel to toe bootlicker incapable of seeing himself as anything but the MOST independent thinker

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th April 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • there's a lot i want to pull out from this comment by ngo

    first, shorn of context, i don't know that this sort of power fantasy reflects so poorly on the rationalists. or perhaps it does, and in that case also reflects poorly on me, since it's my preferred power fantasy. the world sucks and it would be nice to magically make it better. EDIT: ok im noticing that the naruto fanfiction excerpt is just straightforwardly jerking off about doing a fascist coup

    second, we must remember that rat stories are implicitly either recipes for social change or warnings that society ought to stay away from particular demons. rationalism is in large part a political movement with what they believe to be practical aims

    third, if ngo's marxist fiction from the 1800s all ended with communist revolutions, the worrying thing for a member of the movement would not be a fantasy of triumph or a sense of certainty of triumph, but rather an inability to connect triumphant outcomes to action under the present conditions. as you highlighted, the fantastical element of these stories is in conflict with the practicality of their aims

    fourth, as far as i can tell, that is not ngo's objection at all. what he seems to be concerned about is the possibility that rationalists will make serious progress on actually taking over the world and make terrible things happen once they do. i don't take this possibility seriously at all. fundamentally, rationalists are lapdogs, forever licking the negligently outstretched hands of billionaires. they cause real harm as lackeys of the ultrawealthy and vectors for the diseases of racism, eugenics, etc, but to take ngo's concerns seriously i would have to buy into the same fantasy of magical omnipotence he's pointing to, because there seems to be no other path from here to rationalist dictatorship.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • in all honesty we would love it if doing this were our job but there is no pathway to that that we can see. we just do it b/c it's really fun

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    America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

    www.bloomberg.com /news/features/2025-10-17/america-s-tech-right-is-obsessed-with-building-giant-statues
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    What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself?

    defector.com /what-world-does-bitcoin-want-to-build-for-itself
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    U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment

    www.propublica.org /article/hud-considers-crypto-blockchain-stablecoin-housing-urban-development
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    dog wif tools rugpuller tool rug pulls rugpullers

    www.web3isgoinggreat.com /single/rugpuller-tool-rug-pulls-rugpullers
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    elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games

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    the dead end grift that is lab grown meat

    thecounter.org /lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
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    a stunning self own

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    the enshittification of magic: the gathering

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    "I consider myself a dark elf"

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    Microsoft to reopen 3 mile island to power AI

    www.politico.com /news/2024/09/20/constellation-nuclear-plant-deal-microsoft-00180218
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    taking a peek at a subreddit for lovers of ai art

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    Techno-utopianism and the path into darkness

    docs.google.com /document/d/e/2PACX-1vR4iKuXgyx09S5zE8qW-Hmq4cg5q4CZjNYY7mXba35Zm60VYVJRgbEEQDCDfpFObf3m7UCHBgwrDeJm/pub