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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to bring us this quality piece of cringe.
Oh good, a web design crime that never ends.
Of course itās a React, Tailwind piece of shit hosted on Vercel.
Vercel? Whatās the ver stand for? (jk)
verifiably celibate
A corruption of VCRcel, somebody with an encyclopedic knowledge of 1990s pornography distributed on VHS.
Oof thatās the good stuff. Chuds with overly self-inflated egos co-opting eastern philosophy for tech shit is pretty well known around these parts. Itās refreshing to see it from a slightly different white guy.
Also, my usual muckraking bore unexpected fruit:
Iām gonna believe it. The Candace Owens part is disputed, and I daresay debunked, though.
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From @BootsRiley:
Now is as good a time as any to tell people that Rick Rubin is a behind-the-scenes rightwinger who tries to recruit music industry folks to Q-anon type stuff and is who (according to Kanye) convinced Kanye to meet Candace Owens and endorse Trump.
He just looks like a hippie.
i recently stumbled upon his ātetragrammatonā podcast on youtube, listening to the episode with soadās daron malakian, which was actually very interesting.
then i had a look at what other interviews were on offer. among popular actors and musicians there are such luminaries as: palmer luckey, peter thiel, mark mcafee (apparrently some raw milk tycoon), jay bhattacharya (covid-19 hoaxer type guy i guess), mr eggman himself, etc etc
on the podcast rubin comes off as this cool, open-minded hippie person, ājust asking questionsā and āhaving a conversationā with interesting people. so i guess heās just sort of following the rogan formula. except i think rubin has a bit more brain matter left than the mma/dmt guy. so i canāt help but wonder if this podcast is a bit more of a targeted effort at influencing new age people just coming across it like i did.
i was actually quite surprised at this, so i also did a bit of searching, and apart from the post you linked i also came across nothing else. but his work speaks for itself i guess.
Thatās a crazy lineup. I love how you can just say eggman/egghead on awful systems and I think everyone will know the person in question.
iām gonna need a hint here, boss. Hereās my guesses:
my guesses
any of these except the last one wouldnāt be an implausible guest of this podcast, honestly. (i was talking about andreessen)
Another big oof. Hippie ass white guy saying that we should just JAQ off and give other problematic white guys a chance. Sounds about white!
Also his book is co/ghost written by Neil Strauss, the game/PUA manual guy.
A surprising number of surviving former hippies have become viciously reactionary, because the world didnāt turn out the way they wanted it to. The old stereotypes donāt really apply anymore, and there was a lot of selfishness embedded in that culture anyway.