mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago

…and that's one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

there's this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

ironic eugenics is genocidal the same way

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

there is no unobjectionable eugenics

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

tbh i would not call richard hanania “an ex-white nationalist”; he's a white supremacist through and through and never stopped, also, freddie deboer is as far to the left as the late unlamented gregor strasser, and probably much less.

and even with these caveats, it's a pretty damning piece, even if every other careful reader is probably aware that siskind engages in whitewashing scientific racism and white supremacy for fucking decades.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

…or just use the qrencode's -t ANSI256 or -t ANSI256UTF8 output format and read your qr code directly from terminal.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

oh, it's like russia's idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

and perhaps a little bow to lem's “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew's friend)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

whee, i missed that one completely. it seems that some over-eager hachyderm mod suspended @dgerard@awful.systems 's account. nothing that can be done on our side. (unfortunately i don't have a backchannel to the hachyderm mods).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

thank you, that's perfectly awful :-)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

wanted to emulate bene gesserit, ended doing bene tleilax

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

so the official reply is that mod got bored, and also was asked to re-open. which is, of course, fine.

and to be clear

  • i didn't think there is any conspiracy, that would be ridiculous,
  • if we subscribe to the idea that a community is owned, not stewarded, by mods, it's perfectly fine to do with the community whatever the mods want, without the need of them being accountable to anyone else,
  • i do think that reopening the sub after closing it in protest is mostly sad,
  • and a very small and rather insignificant footnote to a more general discussion on (f)utility of using master's tools to bring down the master's house.
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