Witness some orange site mouth frothing generated by his last medium post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33988356
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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the orange site instantly proved David’s research correct on contact by doing their best to misrepresent his views, and when that transparently failed (seriously, see how obvious it is that none of them engaged with the work), they decided to flag the post to death instead
hacker news posters remind me a lot of vantablack paint because they use a lot of technology to absolutely fail to reflect (and they’re also owned by assholes)
This sucks. He will be missed.
David worked in financial software in the 1990s before getting the hell out of tech, never to return.
David was a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University — he was that Marxist college professor you hear so much about.
all of this is a wonderful summary of David’s work and background, but having worked on finance-adjacent software in the past, I felt this correlation in my bones. there’s a direct line from seeing how the fudge is made at a large financial institution to becoming a socialist educator, and it makes a lot of sense that David followed that path.
What is "orange site style dweebery"?
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