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The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (21 children)

Vernor Vinge, patron saint of the singularity and noted winner of a couple of libertarian fiction awards, has passed. HN wanted a black bar[1] but were denied. They compensated by posting a lot of bad takes.

Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304

'jart (aka Justine) has this to say about the impending Singularity (feat. Trump and Twitter!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777929

This hackernews wishes he has been frozen, to be thawed in the future (for some reason, no-one expects the future to be Idiocracy):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776217


[1] when a notable person in CS dies there's sometimes a black bar under the HN header

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Ah damn, Justine has my respect for a bunch of cool and interesting stuff but this is just embarrassing, unless I'm missing some extremely dry satire.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 8 points 8 months ago

@bitofhope @gerikson

She wants/wanted the US government to be replaced with a Silicon Valley CEO.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Justine Tunney, the literal neoreactionary?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had been mercifully spared from her nontechnical opinions until now.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah I can tell. So much for that respect.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s how she’s got a lot of people’s respect, with them being unaware of the other shit. There’s some history going way back to OWS, recommendations that people read Moldbug, and other off-colour shit. I don’t have a link handy immediately but it shouldn’t be too hard to find

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, that's disappointing. I remember being quite impressed with her "a truly universal binary execution format" blog post detailing a way to compile c code into a sort of self-executing portable archive (unless I'm mixing things up - she is the person running justine.lol, is she not?).

Thanks for sharing those articles.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

oh she's very good technically! also a Nazi

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