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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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American white supremacist, pedophilia apologist, alt-right pseudointellectual, grifter, transphobe, anti-feminist, ableist, eugenicist and fake contrarian Richard Hanania jumps on the siskind-is-basically-a-prophet bandwagon in order to (checks notes) shill designer mouth bacteria.
Content warning: contains photo of Siskind (also text by Hanania).
The picture, I could live with; The blog, I could stomach; but the comments? Oh my god the comments
Wtf? If I didn't know any better I'd think he was talking about Euler! I'd vomit and die if I ever heard that irl.
Scott apparently has a 'niceness field' where people around him try to act nicer than normal, and this confuses a lot of people to think he is actually nice and his style of writing is good, smart and balanced.
I met him, he really does
Huh. Too bad he and I will probably never meet; this sounds like an instance where my ability to be incredibly abrasive could be used for good. (Or at least for comedy.)