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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The Internet Archiveās been hacked and had a data breach
Hacktivist group? The fuck can you claim to be an activist for if your target is the Internet Archive?
Training my militia of revolutionary freedom fighters to attack homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and childrenās playgrounds.
conservative who supports homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and childrenās playgrounds for accelerationist reasons
The average orange site hacktivist libertarian. They are just mad about the hypocrisy you see.
(This post was sponsored by the hn guy who was mad at the tech guy who stopped doing startups as he had not given back all the money. Btw the actual communications of sn_blackmeta seem quite weird, talking about the global zionists the devil and having a certain āim 16 and this is deep and edgy qualityā. For ex see this).
Maybe one day self-righteous computer crackers will get over the V for Vendetta, apocalypse cult, latin chanting, hooded robes, āwe are anonymoos we are a legionella we do not froggerā aesthetic and I can stop cringing about it.
Fucking goofy ahh KKK shit.
You can say ass here
Yes but I like the āahhā, it makes me imagine people doing a random little moan in the middle of the sentence.
I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.
Also, I canāt remember but didnāt Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I donāt think it was ever deleted, but thatās the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but thereās content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.
Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like itād take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I donāt know but Iām hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if itās not 3-2-1. Iām only mildly paranoid about it lol.
frankly, the entire design of IA is more than a bit fucking stupid for the purpose it serves. āoh hey hereās the whole IA, right in this building over hereā is just galaxybrained derpery
physical goods I can understand central-point (or some centralisation) in archive management, but ffs weāre multiple decades into knowing how to build things differently
(stance contextualisation: while Iām glad that the IA exists, Iām not an unreserved stan of it. there are a couple other notable concerns with it, alongside the thing I just mentioned)
@BlueMonday1984 whoever this dipshit is needs to fucking stop