You owe him RSS, you owe him Markdown, you owe him Creative Commons, you owe him Reddit.

He was 26, wanted to share knowledge for free and they pushed him to suicide for it.

He would be 34 by now, and I cannot imagine all the wonderful things he would have created.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      4 years ago

      i'm not on twitter, can someone plz bully the reply guy linking to repugnant fascist blowhard mencius moldbug's blog post blaming leftism for Swartz's death?

      • culdrought [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        His twitter bio:

        Neoreactionary. Techno-traditionalist. Philotyrannical intellectual

        buh??????

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          4 years ago

          a "neoreactionary" is a fascist that thinks they're doing esotericism by using Tor Browser to look at CP. they're incredibly tiring people.

          • culdrought [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            lmao that sounds about right. Also I just started reading that blog post and it is causing me physical pain.

            Aaron, born one of humanity’s natural nobles, grows up in a century cleansed by military force of its own cultural heritage, in which all surviving noble ideals are leftist ideals.

            What fucking world does this dumbass live in?

            • captcha [any]
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              4 years ago

              In a world where we are all constantly fighting to enslave each other to honor the virtue of competition.

            • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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              4 years ago

              "who the fuck is Mencius Moldbug?" is a deep, dark rabbit hole. I recommend Elizabeth Sandifer's Neoreaction: A Basilisk on the origins and problems of the online far right movement he helped found, analyzed through a literary/philosophical lens comparable to the writing of Mark Fisher.

              (pm me if you're a broke bitch and i can send you the ebook in MOBI format)

              • culdrought [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Thanks for the recommendation! This is the first time I've heard of neoreactionaries so I'll definitely have to read that.

                I am a broke bitch but I was able to find a torrent so it's all good. Thanks for the offer though! <3

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        How big of a dork do you have to be, linking Moldbug? What does he imagine he's accomplishing here?

        oh no, I've been subjected to the writings of a pompous nerd who cant self-reflect or proofread, my day is irredeemably ruined

      • captcha [any]
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        4 years ago

        mencius moldbug

        God good I thought that guy was only famous for trying to shill his darknet pyramid scheme, urbit.

        Guys, guys, what if we create another darknet but we bake a pyramid scheme into it? Won't it be liberating??? And you can call yourselves lords and dukes with your own peasants and you will all be free. Also we're going to greenfield everything without utilizing preexisting tools or referencing prior work and obfuscate how everything works while still being open source.

        Peter Thiel: yeah I'll throw some money at that.