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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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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

extremely high context ancient-lore buttcoin lol:

anyone remember Ryan X. Charles, the man who spent nine months working at Reddit to reimplement bitcoind in javascript, 'cos it took that long for them to notice they were paying him and to stop doing that?

he became an extremely ardent Bitcoin-SV (Satoshi's Vision) advocate who thought Prof Dr Dr Wright was a genius

anyway, he's decided it's time to flip to the non-losing side

https://twitter.com/ryan_x_charles/status/1770024760677687735

https://twitter.com/ryan_x_charles/status/1770039633490985430

(stefan matthews was the guy who brought craig to calvin)

not quite the sharpest tinnie in the six-pack

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

You sent me down the rabbit hole.

...as for what's right for you, I dunno. The one major downside of fullnode is that there is only one developer working on it, though I think that once I move the project to reddit's github and announce that "reddit is making a wallet" we will have many more eyes and developers on the project.

Just fucken lol.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And, like every other crypto guy, Ryan has pivoted to AI now. His github profile says "Building AI with AI. Founder @artintellica."

https://artintellica.com/ Truly, a website.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

jesus goatfucking christ