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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453386

nobody mentioned this particular incident, dude just threw it into the discussion himself

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

largely not available digitally, though someone's putting together a Borsook reissue

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

surely this is a post about tech nazis, and not a post about how to argue language design features.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Cyberselfish by Borsook, several books by Dery but particularly Escape Velocity

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Mark Dery and Paulina Borsook nailed these fuckers square on in the '90s, but nobody reads books

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

it's a shitty paper but even they couldn't avoid the point forever

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the story of open source burnout for the past 20 years is that venture philanthropy was not a thing, quite the opposite

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

"He comes from the Bay Area, being techfash is part of his culture"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

oh lol it's even worse

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

crikey. I assume the CV is in good order and kept updated on the job sites just to see what comes in.

 

invertebrateinvert

amazing how much shittier it is to be in the rat community now that the racists won. before at least they were kinda coy about it and pretended to still have remotely good values instead of it all being yarvinslop.

invertebrateinvert

it would be nice to be able to ever invite rat friends to anything but half the time when I've done this in the last year they try selling people they just met on scientific racism!

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