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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

at least one matches, i forget the name but it's all over bsky

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Matches for HN or LW?

We know one of them retweeted groypers as well.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This community is for those willing to bring wisdom and compassion into the world. It is not for those easily duped by what they find in their minds or online.

no red flags there

edit to add: Emphasis in original

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

do these kooks follow single inheritance or multiple inheritance rules? I’m a bit more worried about the latter

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I haven't gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)

I was struck by the outright "hey we've got cult camp" kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they've done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as "people are cyborgs now"

although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I'm wondering if that's a thing that I missed in others of this before

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

it's above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas I've observed it)

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