Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025
Sailor Sega Saturn @ sailor_sega_saturn @awful.systems Posts 1Comments 474Joined 2 yr. ago

Sailor Sega Saturn @ sailor_sega_saturn @awful.systems
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Hackernews woke up feeling like fascism ( make sure to enable dead + flagged comments if you hate yourself):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897696
(Two comment threads about the CDC purging "woke" research, the comments are bad even by HN standards)
Gee given a forum full of hackers you'd expect them to be against arbitrary removal of scientific studies. What happened to "information wants to be free"?
Bonus US terribleness: the NTSB suddenly thinks Twitter is the bee's knees and way better than email! What coincidental timing https://xcancel.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/1885734974298435943
Also I know I know, more US politics. It turns out silicon valley fascists have gained power so expect this to keep happening for the forseeable future š.
These past two weeks have made me very uncomfortable working in Silicon Valley, I know last time I said I was planning to get out; but now it feels urgent both for my own well being, and to stop contributing to this industry. In trans communities we immediately saw coupy stuff for the attempted transgender genocide that it is, the wider public and media is waking up to this very slowly.
An account-only platform that sometimes bans US citizens for being cool.
If there's interest I could try turning all of this into a top level post on morewrite or techtakes. I've been trying to avoid inundating people with US politics, but it's extremely bad. Like constitutional crisis, rise of techno-fascism, dismantling of the administrative state, transgender extermination, put career roadblocks in front of minorities bad.