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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Oh hell yeah. Thank you. oh, and mine's half price on ePub this week too, which is stupidly popular for no good reason (sold 10 just today).
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Silver2195 posted:https://twitter.com/jasonpinter/status/946070219176513536 Just picturing whatever editor they assigned to this as that frazzled penguin voiced by Patton Oswalt from Bojack Horseman
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Just picturing whatever editor they assigned to this as that frazzled penguin voiced by Patton Oswalt from Bojack Horseman And note that this guy basically agrees with Milo, and even then you can read the comments on the PDF (I do not advise reading Milo's text, just skim the comments) and see about where he starts actually punching his desk at Milo's utter incompetence.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Just picturing whatever editor they assigned to this as that frazzled penguin voiced by Patton Oswalt from Bojack Horseman Milo: Perhaps our political discourse is too simplistic to accommodate the subtle argument I have presented here. Editors note: perhaps it is This stuff is being released because of his case against S&S right? Quite a big self-own in that case.
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divabot posted:Hey everyone, Phil Sandifer's books are on sale this week on SmashWords, including the awesome and unjustly neglected Guided By The Beauty Of Their Weapons (aka What The gently caress Vox Day's Problem Is), which is FREE. So you have no excuse. These are ePubs, but you can convert them for your Kindle with Calibre if you like. This got me to read Guided since its free, which I've liked enough so far that I also purchased Basilisk finally and may look at the other stuff as well.
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PYF Dark Enlightenment Thinker: Delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke e: Wait no I just got to a way better one PYF Dark Enlightenment Thinker: Let's leave "fecal waste" analogies out of this chapter Shame Boy has a new favorite as of 00:12 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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Sonething relevant to this thread (and completely terrifying) by Charles Stross
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That is a pretty good speech
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Gamergate isn't over guys, we can still win
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Gamergate has morphed into something far more complex and beautiful
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meanwhile in the uk https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/951050139338145792 http://londonstudent.coop/news/2018/01/10/exposed-london-eugenics-conferences-neo-nazi-links/ also feat.
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I for one am shocked to find that the eugenicist conference was full of Nazis.
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lol https://twitter.com/shujaxhaider/status/951130547073552386
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Isn't Urbit (Or whatever his startup is) technically a competitor to Google? Because that's a pretty compelling and reasonable reason to block someone from company property
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Google has people from competing companies visit all the time, both socially and professionally.
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Somfin posted:It seems quite likely that Google would have a list of notable people from a number of different companies assigned to a watchlist. I dunno, their ‘Don’t be Evil’ sensors have got pretty rusty. I’m not sure necromancy would trip ‘em.
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Darth Walrus posted:I dunno, their ‘Don’t be Evil’ sensors have got pretty rusty. I’m not sure necromancy would trip ‘em. If you look closely there's an asterisk after "Don't be evil" and when you reference the bottom of the page you'll see the condition *but, I mean, what really is evil anyways?
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DarklyDreaming posted:Isn't Urbit (Or whatever his startup is) technically a competitor to Google? Because that's a pretty compelling and reasonable reason to block someone from company property
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mysterious frankie posted:If you look closely there's an asterisk after "Don't be evil" and when you reference the bottom of the page you'll see the condition *but, I mean, what really is evil anyways? I mean Alphabet dropped "don't be evil" when it formed so it's not like that's stopping them anymore. Apparently they replaced it with the even more subjective motto "do the right thing" 
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Alphabet: "Perhaps on the rare occasion that pursuing the right course demands an act of evil... evil itself can be the right course?"
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Anyway World's Most Punchable Nazi Richard Spencer gave a speech at the university of florida last October (that he paid to do, they didn't invite him). In preparation the governor declared a goddamn state of emergency and there were cops out everywhere. Anyway now the county is giving the university a bill for $300,000:quote:Alachua County sent the school an invoice Wednesday for $302,184 encompassing costs related exclusively to Mr. Spencer’s appearance at the university on Oct. 19, his first scheduled speaking engagement since participating in the deadly “Unite the Right” protest two months earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia. I really hope the university finds a way to forward this bill on to ol' spency
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ate all the Oreos posted:"do the right thing *cough*fortheinvestors*cough*"
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ate all the Oreos posted:Anyway World's Most Punchable Nazi Richard Spencer gave a speech at the university of florida last October (that he paid to do, they didn't invite him). In preparation the governor declared a goddamn state of emergency and there were cops out everywhere. Anyway now the county is giving the university a bill for $300,000: This is good because it means that protesting has or had economic repercussions which in the future might disincline other universities from hosting nazis.
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Boatswain posted:This is good because it means that protesting has or had economic repercussions which in the future might disincline other universities from hosting nazis. Not really how it works; as a public university, the University of Florida probably couldn't have avoided hosting him in a way consistent with current First Amendment jurisprudence.
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Silver2195 posted:Not really how it works; as a public university, the University of Florida probably couldn't have avoided hosting him in a way consistent with current First Amendment jurisprudence. Yeah hence why I hope there's a way for them to pass the bill on, because at the very least there needs to be a way to make "Being Richard Spencer" prohibitively expensive
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ate all the Oreos posted:Yeah hence why I hope there's a way for them to pass the bill on, because at the very least there needs to be a way to make "Being Richard Spencer" prohibitively expensive Martyring him will make him relevant again. Which, given that he's now being attacked by the Nazis for making them look bad, is probably exactly what he and his enemies want to avoid. Martyrdom it is.
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Silver2195 posted:Not really how it works; as a public university, the University of Florida probably couldn't have avoided hosting him in a way consistent with current First Amendment jurisprudence. I'm sure you are right but in the article above the county spokesman made it sound like the university did have a choice.
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Boatswain posted:I'm sure you are right but in the article above the county spokesman made it sound like the university did have a choice. I just realized I neglected to actually link the article, sorry https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/richard-spencer-event-yields-300k-bill-for-univers/ quote:The University of Florida initially refused to host an event featuring Mr. Spencer following the violence in Charlottesville, but the school conceded after being threatened with litigation and agreed to accommodate his first public speaking engagement since “Unite the Right” on Oct. 19.
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Tom Chivers is a British journalist. He's written for a pile of places, most recenty BuzzFeed. He's pretty good, I've long found his byline a reliable sign of a decent popular science writeup. He accepted redundancy from BuzzFeed to concentrate on his forthcoming book: The Rationalists.Weidenfeld & Nicolson posted:W&N has pitched The Rationalists as "a book about the cutting edge of our thinking on intelligence and rationality right now by the people who stay up all night worrying about it", executed with Chivers' "easy style, humour and wonderful storytelling ability". He's done an AMA on /r/slatestarcodex. Apparently he reads this stuff and hangs out with some of them. I tweeted about this - noting my running total of 0 words to date on my own mooted book on the subject - and he asked me to contact him, so I've emailed and said I'd be delighted to talk to him. Wonder if he'll be covering the subculture's hearty embrace of scientific racism at all ... divabot has a new favorite as of 21:37 on Jan 14, 2018 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:They love Fascist Heinlein but that love is overridden by the hatred for Redheaded Younger Daughter loving Heinlein. I assume. That, and "Awesomely Competent Women Give Me A Raging Hardon" Heinlein and "Ha Ha The Protagonist Was Secretly A Person of Color And You Were Identifying With Them All Along" Heinlein. RAH was a complex and weird dude. By which I mean he had a lot of weird complexes.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:They love Fascist Heinlein but that love is overridden by the hatred for Redheaded Younger Daughter loving Heinlein. I assume. No, provided that redheaded younger daughter is of the same race, they love that poo poo. Citation: The five billion creepy manosphere blogposts about how men are just genetically hardwired to only get REALLY hard for twelve year olds Though they aren't a hivemind, so some of the less openly nazi DE dudes still love Heinlein
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Am I thinking of the wrong Heinlein? It wasn't his daughter, it was a double-X-chromosome clone of himself.
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