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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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This might be tangential/way off-topic and more MoreWrite material than stub, but anyhoo:
Acronym-based misinformation campaigns I would like to seed:
If I think of more I’ll post them.
for the betterment of muddled waters, I suggest a secondary meaning for
opus dei
- a WIP codec that the xiph group hasn't really released yet, because they're not sure it fully enough mutes maga voicesLMFAO, best known for "Party Rock Anthem", is actually a failed leftist yodaist sect, standing for the warning "Leopards, my face, ate off"
took me 3 tries to read "yodaist" correctly (brain kept going s/d/g/ which, well..)
I thought of the old sneerclub/ssc poster (def not a regular on the former, while a former regular on the latter) yodatsracist
Personally id not use disinformation as a tool. It is what got us into this mess, and you are also helping the actual goal of the flooding the zone with misinformation tactic. People stop believing in things.
Ok, that's fair enough. The framing of "misinformation [...] I would like to seed" was just there to frame the bits. I don't really want these bits to take off.
Allright, let me put my 'warnings for young demonologists' guidebook to the side. ;).
@swlabr @Soyweiser too late