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sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English
0·1 day agonice of the rationalists to remind me that no matter how ugly the ai situation gets they will never ever be capable of making a good point

sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
0·4 days agoi have to admit i think we are charlie kirk is a banger
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
0·7 days agozvi citing a self described “jewish nazi” almost right at the top is already impressive, but there’s a chaser in that that guy’s post starts with him saying he’s being paid to write this by an ai company

sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
0·7 days agodefinitely want this guy to be an important part of overhauling europe’s economy
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/leopold-aschenbrenners-hedge-fund-is-facing-steep-ai-losses.html
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
0·14 days agoadrian still hasn’t responded

sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
0·15 days agoSo last night I finished editing the latest odium symposium episode (“ezra klein is a disgusting worm,” https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/1-ezra-klein-is-166891080 ), and i went to upload it to our rss host, zencastr. friends. zencastr is so fucked now. the only interface, as far as i can tell, is an llm, and it tormented me. im just gonna dump the screenshots. this is a fragment of an exhausting hour of back and forth.
note that i apparently have 10k credits, which i assume are temporary and there as a welcome to the new service. a single credit a few bucks so in total the bill just for the conversation comes out to about 6-7 dollars





it also tried to get me to use this absolutely horrible episode description

i asked it to schedule the episode for 9 am aug 18th and it said it did and it turns out it went out this morning. cool! if you listen by rss it’s out now i guess.
i posted on reddit asking how to switch hosts. the ceo found that post today and offered his hand, which i bit

i keep thinking about that bit in a philip k dick novel where the protagonist’s door tries to chisel tips out of him before opening, and threatens to sue him when he bypasses the lock. i hate the future/present so much
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026English
0·28 days agoNew odium symposium episode: https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/22-on-chasers-ft-165582005
We talked to trans philosophy professor amy marvin about the intersection between trans chasers and stand up comedy
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·1 month agonew odium symposium episode. we look at the work of conservative philosopher, grifter and tobacco lobbyist Roger Scruton.
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/21-mr-rogers-164372632
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
0·2 months agoNew Odium Symposium episode. We talk about /r/fuckingfascists, a fascist domination roleplay subreddit intended for good liberals, which instead ended up getting eaten alive by nazis.
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/20-death-of-162994026
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
0·2 months agoNew Odium Symposium episode: we look at Pulitzer prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer and his pretentious and racist best-of collection, Things That Matter.
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/19-nightmare-161582344
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
0·3 months 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
0·3 months 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
0·3 months 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
0·3 months 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
0·3 months 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
0·3 months 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
0·3 months agooh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened
sc_griffith@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
0·4 months 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 17th May 2026English
0·4 months agoso 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?

new odium symposium episode. we look at the evolution of keyboard warrior and self described most censored man on the internet jk sheindlin
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/23-gobsmacking-168259713