Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Iāve been made aware of a new manifesto. Domain registered September 2024.
Anyone know anything about the ludlow institute folks? I see some cryptocurrency-adjacent figures, and Iām aware of Phil Zimmerman of course, but Iām wondering what the new grift angles are going to be, or whether this is just more cypherpunk true believer stuff.
one more manifesto bro one more and itāll fix it
I scolled around the āludwell instituteā a bit for fun. Seems like a pretty professional opinion piece/social media content operation run by one person as far as I can tell. I read one article, where they lionized a jailed BitCoin Mixer developer. Another one seems to be hyped for Ethereum for some reason.
Seems like pretty unreflected āI make money by having this opinionā stuff. They lead with reasonable stuff about using privacy-respecting settings or tools, but the ultimate solution seems to be becoming OpSec paranoid and using Tor and Crypto.
@macroplastic
Tech manifestos are so cringe.
CW: state of the world, depressing
(USA disappears 60k untermensch in a year; three minorities massacred successively in Syria; explicit genocide in Palestine richly documented for an uncaring world; the junta continues to terrorise Myanmar; Ukrainian immigrants kicked back into the meat grinder with tacit support of EU xenophobia; entire Eastern Europe living under looming Russian imperialism; EU ally Turkey continues to ethnically cleanse Kurds with no consequences; El Salvador becomes police state dystopia; Mexico, Equador, Haiti, Jamaica murder rates lowkey comparable to warzones; AfD polling at near-NSDAP levels; massacre in Sudan; massacre in Iran; Trump declares himself president of Venezuela and announces Greenland takeover; ecological polycrisis accelerates in the background, ignored by State and capital)
techies: ok but letās talk about what really matters: coding. programming is our weapon, knowledge is our shield. cryptography is the revolutionā¦
Agile manifesto is cool, mostly because itās like 24 words long
Iām sorry but whatever you think about the actual content Iām going to be prescriptive and proclaim that the word manifesto should not be allowed to refer to opinions about management practices.
What if the opinion is to shoot the managers and seize the (means of) production
A spectre is haunting your workflow
Which is absolutely tragic given the cargo culting of ceremonies at any large software organization that make up big-A Agile, ceremonies that started as a reaction to the agile manifesto. One place I worked for even started turning non-engineering teams into Agile teams because itās Agile!
Good website too
Looks like cypherpunk slop