|
Pornographic Memory posted:Does Justine Tunney have any kind of following, or did she just find this thread because it's like some of the really obscure cartoons from the political cartoons thread where somethingawful haters actually represent a majority of the fanbase at this point? You'd think a Google engineering ubermensch who dictated Occupy Wallstreet and shifts mountains of money with mere programming would have better things to do than read through and whine about random internet threads on passe websites. Pretty sure she's just stricken with an overinflated ego (hence her claims of genetic superiority because she's a coder who was descended from someone vaguely famous a thousand years ago), needs to exaggerate her role in everything (hence her calling herself the founder and leader of OWS because she created the Twitter account), and probably Googles her name every ten minutes to make sure she's fulfilling her desperate thirst for attention (hence her finding this thread).
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:22 |
|
|
# ? Jun 11, 2024 13:36 |
|
I'm descended from nothing but farmers and soldiers; I also think that the practice of guillotining nobility is a practice that has merit and should be brought back. Let's start with this one
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:25 |
|
justine tunney is a dumb name she herself is most likely a dumb too bad
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:30 |
|
Aerial Tollhouse posted:I think they might be keeping Tunney around as a "look at how good we are, we don't fire you if you say stupid crap as long as you do good work, free speech!" kind of thing to make them seem like more friendly and desirable place to work. Meanwhile, let's look at another one of her essays So is this Dunning, or Kruger
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:34 |
|
Please tell me she has decided to defend her copyrights against critics of her work quoting them here. Or that she thinks freedom of speech applies to Internet forums. Or something even more idiotic.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:35 |
|
I'm descended from William Wallace which is why I wield my oversized sword in a wild uncontrollable fashion.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:38 |
|
im descended from god
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:41 |
|
Popular Thug Drink posted:im descended from god How is Lemmy these days?
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:42 |
|
Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:22 |
|
Hog Butcher posted:I'm descended from William Wallace which is why I wield my oversized sword in a wild uncontrollable fashion. Same
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:23 |
|
uh famous for taking over the "original" occupy wall street account and tweeting about herself. Then getting into a tweet war with herself because of that tweeting network that account is hooked up to.
BernieLomax fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jul 25, 2014 |
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:25 |
|
Lowtax posted:Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write. She thinks that the United States would be better off as a medieval kingdom ruled by the iron fist of King Eric Schmidt where the only law is that enforced by the Silicon Valley code samurai. She is apparently one of a number of people who believe this. They call this the "Dark Enlightenment" because I guess everything is cooler when you make it "Dark", and apparently only Silicon Valley code samurai are smart enough to have been "enlightened" to this new feudalistic way of thinking.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:28 |
|
Lowtax posted:Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write. Some lady who works for Google and did some social media stuff during the Occupy movement, now just rants on her lovely designed blog about how much better things would be if her boss was dictator for life of the USA and how much she wishes she could have slaves. What, don't you have someone like that working for Something Awful, some DBA or something who thinks you should become president for life and bring back slavery?
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:30 |
|
ComradeCosmobot posted:She thinks that the United States would be better off as a medieval kingdom ruled by the iron fist of King Eric Schmidt where the only law is that enforced by the Silicon Valley code samurai. http://www.vocativ.com/culture/uncategorized/dark-enlightenment-creepy-internet-movement-youd-better-take-seriously/?PageSpeed=noscript quote:Blossoming on the Internet like a fetid rose, a mysterious new political movement has generated a serious and not un-terrifying critique of modern society. Its members are loud and growing in number, and they demand nothing less than the elimination of the democratic system. Mostly white, male and angry, they lie in wait for the imminent collapse of civilization.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:35 |
|
DrProsek posted:Statistically speaking, there is a non-insignificant chance that at least one person in this thread is related to Charlemagne, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and/or Genghis Khan, so being descended from some dude who managed to not lose land to Vikings isn't really all that impressive. Well, not Charlemagne, but I am descended from his mother's favorite nephew, Berthalot, on my grandmother's side. (I know this because his grandson came over with William the Bastard, and then his descendants stayed in a town of 85 people for literally six hundred something years.) On my father's side, I've got Stuart blood (Our William who came over was either the grandson of James II's daughter or the son of James II's granddaughter, I keep forgetting which way it goes), but the descent from this old high king who kidnapped a guy who later became a saint is a bit more entertaining to me. It's entertaining to one-up some chinese people with - 'I have a hat that's older than your dynasty' is a phrase I've used once or twice. (And a pitchfork older than the Magna Carta) It's even more fun to run into a distant cousin - I found out that someone I work with is a relative that separated from the family before we came to America. Both families have the same story about the time the Vikings tried to raid our castle back in 895 or so, with minor variations. William Wallace was one of our neighbors after a famously bad incident involving Edward the Bruce and the English persuaded us to rapidly leave Ireland. (Dal Riata family - we go back and forth a lot. Generally after starting, and then losing a fight of some kind.) Note: We did not lose the land to the Vikings, the castle wasn't finished so we lit it on fire with them inside. Lost everything we had, mind you. Edit: I know all this because it was my grandfather's hobby for half his life, and then computer genealogical databases made it all trivial. But some of the stories are _fantastic._ Everyone should check out their ancestry, just to see if you can find the stupid stuff your family's gotten up to over the centuries. Warcabbit fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jul 25, 2014 |
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:50 |
|
Lowtax posted:Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write. Claims to be the "founder and leader of the Occupy movement" because she made the social media accounts and didn't let anyone else anywhere near them. Was hired by Google and now openly advocates that the US should be a enlightened dictatorship ruled by tech CEOs, particularly the CEO of Google, and other coder-kings. Also trans and referred to it as an example of her tendency of "living life in hard mode" or something like that. Is basically the walking personification of every stupid or vile opinion or behavior in Silicon Valley, and gets attention partially because she desperately seeks it out and partially because everything she says is so horrible that she's perfect to laugh at. Most of this thread is dedicated to discussing the stupid poo poo she and her "Dark Enlightenment" nutjob peers say.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:51 |
|
Dark Enlightenment is what you get when the software hacker mentalities of "information wants to be free" and "truth fears no question" butt up against a reality where society wants to actively suppress certain viewpoints, regardless of statistical validity.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:56 |
|
Main Paineframe posted:Claims to be the "founder and leader of the Occupy movement" because she made the social media accounts and didn't let anyone else anywhere near them. Was hired by Google and now openly advocates that the US should be a enlightened dictatorship ruled by tech CEOs, particularly the CEO of Google, and other coder-kings. Also trans and referred to it as an example of her tendency of "living life in hard mode" or something like that. Is basically the walking personification of every stupid or vile opinion or behavior in Silicon Valley, and gets attention partially because she desperately seeks it out and partially because everything she says is so horrible that she's perfect to laugh at. Most of this thread is dedicated to discussing the stupid poo poo she and her "Dark Enlightenment" nutjob peers say.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:57 |
|
She's unimportant. Probably 75% of the people in this thread could inflate their past associations to the point where they would instantly gain greater prominence than her. And they wouldn't even be exaggerating as much as she is. Still kinda want to get her fired though, cause that girl a human buboe e: dammit I knew she was some bullshit form of trans. Sorry to say, women just are not this big of shitstains. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:59 |
|
Try selling her some mangosteen.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:01 |
|
ayn rand hand job posted:The forums,need a new coder. This needs to happen
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:03 |
|
illrepute posted:Try selling her some mangosteen.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:04 |
|
Lowtax posted:huh, why? Because I'm dumb as hell and bad at jokes. Anyway, Justine Tunney is a deranged lunatic and I'm sorry you're in communication with her and/or her peers, because they're basically dudes who see the Empire in Warhammer 40k and thought "man, it'd be really rad to have this system of government irl."
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:06 |
|
SedanChair posted:She's unimportant. Probably 75% of the people in this thread could inflate their past associations to the point where they would instantly gain greater prominence than her... I'm a programmer for a startup, I read HackerNews every day, and follow a lot of other programmers on Twitter, but I haven't heard of her outside of SA. She only has ~2k followers. I have 1,300 on a throwaway marketing account I made for my tiny blog about a specific car model. She's unimportant.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:13 |
|
you know who else considered themselves genetically superior due to their descent from english nobility, was insufferably narcissistic, and fantasized about bizarre dictatorial hellscapes? elliot rodgers. just throwin that out there, heh
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:14 |
|
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:20 |
|
The English nobility thing is a bit odd, considering she wants to replace a President who is Queen Elizabeth's 10th cousin, thrice removed.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:23 |
|
There's using "thee," "didst," or "thou," in your tweet, and then there's using all three of them at once.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:23 |
|
StandardVC10 posted:There's using "thee," "didst," or "thou," in your tweet, and then there's using all three of them at once. 'Cause nothing says sophisticated smart futuretech person like incorrectly using deprecated forms of address.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:25 |
|
I can't wait until she gets fired from Google and swings to another obnoxious political ideology that suits her at the moment. When the tech world kicks dirt in her face she'll just go to the other extreme and fall in love with extreme agrarian socialism. Mark my words, before you know it she'll be denouncing teachers, doctors, intellectuals and anyone who wears glasses while trying to get the Khmer Rouge back up off the ground. Warcabbit posted:Well, not Charlemagne, but I am descended from his mother's favorite nephew, Berthalot, on my grandmother's side. (I know this because his grandson came over with William the Bastard, and then his descendants stayed in a town of 85 people for literally six hundred something years.) Wow, you are toilet-bowl white!
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:29 |
|
Rhesus Pieces posted:I can't wait until she gets fired from Google and swings to another obnoxious political ideology that suits her at the moment. When the tech world kicks dirt in her face she'll just go to the other extreme and fall in love with extreme agrarian socialism. I dunno, I think you missed the part where she pointed out her obvious superiority to others, why would google fire someone so smart? It is a pure meritocracy, after all
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:33 |
|
Rhesus Pieces posted:Wow, you are toilet-bowl white! And nerdy.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:37 |
|
vendor buy bank guards
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:40 |
BattleMaster posted:I'm descended from nothing but farmers and soldiers; I also think that the practice of guillotining nobility is a practice that has merit and should be brought back. farmers/fishermen here. all the way back to the Virginia colony and (we are pretty sure) Guernsey. During the civil war one guy enlisted but just died of measles.
|
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:44 |
|
Lowtax, Justine Tunney wants to know why you didn't bend you revery mental effort to preventing the decline of the Something Awful Forums, once a respectable nexus and combinator of internet culture. I, for one, think she deserves an Answer.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:50 |
|
I picked a good day to get updated with this thread.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:23 |
|
StandardVC10 posted:There's using "thee," "didst," or "thou," in your tweet, and then there's using all three of them at once. If you think that bad, the essays she posts on her website also use some super stupid font that renders the letter "s" as an "f". Apparently she has some crazy attachment to what she imagines Old English to be.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:24 |
|
Whenever a bedraggled Conchita Wurst lookalike shits themselves on an NYC subway car and raves about being the President, the other passengers move to a different car and pretend the disturbance doesn't exist. This may be prudent to remember given that Justine Tunney is literally the same thing.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:32 |
|
BattleMaster posted:I'm descended from nothing but farmers and soldiers; I also think that the practice of guillotining nobility is a practice that has merit and should be brought back. it's also painless low tech form of execution, everyone wins.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:36 |
|
|
# ? Jun 11, 2024 13:36 |
|
your lovely eek posted:Whenever a bedraggled Conchita Wurst lookalike shits themselves on an NYC subway car and raves about being the President, the other passengers move to a different car and pretend the disturbance doesn't exist. This may be prudent to remember given that Justine Tunney is literally the same thing. Folks have been buying the poo poo out of it though. I mean all she had to do was say "I was a founder and leader of Occupy" over and over and over and it's turned into articles on buzzfeed, pando, business insider, the guardian and the telegraph. What she actually did: set up a twitter account, come back a few years later, found out her password still worked and tweeted "let's start a revolution!!" That's literally It. e: and the only reason she hasn't been totally exposed is because all the people who knew her from OWS didn't learn enough writing skills in college to be able to clearly express "she is a fraud who hijacked our twitter" or think that would be too authoritarian to say or something.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:49 |