maol

Good website too

In the same way that in France, separation of church and state sounds good on paper but means "local government will still sponsor nativity scenes but schoolchildren will be banned from wearing hijabs" in practice.

definitely. plus the woman-hating background radiation of a lot of online communities and media for teenage boys.

i was aware of "left-wing but rancid about women" as a common political perspective in techy fields, but I wasn't aware of many out and out right-wingers in the FOSS world specifically (beyond the odd TempleOS type kook).

I've always thought of linux as a vaguely commie thing but it seems like a) there were more libertarians in there than I thought, b) using linux appeals to some very right wing freaks who don't like the idea of not being in total control, and c) there's a right wing computer culture promoted by online influencers to nerdy young men, not dissimilar to right wing gamer culture.

The above site is hosted on neocities. I've been involved in the small web/personal web/indie web for a while (almost 6 years now, Jesus) and I knew there's a more right wing side to it but I hadn't come across it much (except for digdeeper linked to above, whose online privacy guides I read and took seriously before he started posting about Covid and I realized he was a conspiracy theorist). Then recently I found a neonazi's site on neocities through a Christian webring* and spent a while looking around in morbid fascination.

*You can't join if you support abortion or gay people, but apparently they don't check to make sure you're not a Nazi. I'm tempted to set up a competing webring for Christians with normal views....

Futrelle was an AI guy for a bit, weirdly.

Genuinely don't understand how dependent these people are on AI. "I'll generate an image of a skeleton at a bus stop" one of them said (it was relevant). I'll go to Google images, I said. It's faster! And you don't end up with a mangled version of the Dublin Bus logo!

I'm doing this shitey online optional module for my college course because I left it too late to pick a proper one, and Christ in heaven people are using a lot of AI. This is meant to be a class about sustainability

I know zilch about linux but I think there was some discussion in here about suckless. Well look at what I came across on an honest to god nazi's website*:

*yes, I have reported this site to their web hosting provider.

It's that classic tweet: "this is bad for your cause" says a guy who hates your cause and hates you. The slatestarcodex squad didn't believe there was any reason to protest but thought that if people must protest they should have the decency to do it in a way that didn't cause them to be 5 minutes late on their way to lunch.

nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action are just tactics that work in specific circumstances and can achieve specific goals. pretty much every violent movement for change was supported by non-violent movements. and non-violence often appears in a form that is unacceptable to the slatestarcodex contingent. Like Daniel Berrigan destroying Vietnam draft cards, or Catholic Workers attacking US warplanes with hammers, or Black Lives Matter activists blocking a highway or Meredith and Verity Burgmann running onto the pitch during a South African rugby match.

These guys really are just another boring cult. They're Christian Scientists. They're aesthetic realists.