maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Surely this is 3 or 4 different anti-gun control tropes all smashed together.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

I had just been looking at their website or I wouldn't have caught it, lol.

I think Yeah Nah Pasaran have done some coverage of technofascism and TESCREAL.

You should definitely pitch a show. You could have an evil AI as a co-presenter.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

In another forum I'm in, someone posted this article and asked if someone, anyone could understand it. I kept schtum.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

3CR! You should pitch a Sneer Club show to them.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

My answer to bike theft is to scrap all the cop cars and make the police ride bikes. After the 500th police bike theft you bet they'd find a solution

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'd seen one or two of his popular posts but I only became familiar with him and his whole deal after he died.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Isn't this what happened to that creepy bloke on Tumblr. Maybe all rationalist-adjacent bloggers eventually shit themselves to death after trying to fix their health problems with punishing exercise regimes and dodgy supplements.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There's a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My other kook-watching sneerhobby is Rod Dreher and there's been bleedthrough from him too! Strange bird, Vance...

[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of "techno-optimism". Setting aside Land's ugly views about everything... I didn't think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.

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