maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 10 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 10 months ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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