Message from @xorgy

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2018-09-23 14:35:39 UTC  

ive tracked one already

2018-09-23 14:36:06 UTC  

Alexander Macgillivray seems okay, worked with CAMFED, which is seemingly a fairly transparent and well functioning organization.

2018-09-23 14:39:11 UTC  
2018-09-23 14:40:25 UTC  

Anil CEOs Fog Creek, which I'm sure some people here are familiar with, and I don't think he's done anything controversial there. He worked with the Obama administration.

2018-09-23 14:40:39 UTC  

Anil seems to be connected to people at Twitter. Alexander Macgillivray worked with Twitter as GC. So Anil + Alexander a Twitter connection makes, though somewhat weakly.

2018-09-23 14:41:46 UTC  

Anil recommended to Twitter that they more aggressively police the userbase, and endorsed the use of community-maintained blocklists like Block Together (and IIRC he was involved socially in Twitter adding the block list import feature).

2018-09-23 14:44:55 UTC  

_Catherine Bracy_ doesn't have a clickable profile on that page, which could be a sign.

2018-09-23 14:45:22 UTC  

Catherine Bracy's tumblr: http://cbracy.tumblr.com/

2018-09-23 14:45:22 UTC  

Catherine Bracy also worked for the Obama administration (on Code for America), in a similar capacity to Anil Dash (“adviser to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy”[0]), it seems.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-02/-making-the-tech-world-more-humane-and-ethical

2018-09-23 14:49:22 UTC  

_Anil Dash_ has defended the SSRC (of which _Alondra Nelson_ is President) in public,
https://twitter.com/anildash/status/983408275164225536

2018-09-23 14:50:58 UTC  

@Timcast would, too

2018-09-23 14:53:17 UTC  

@Atkins that is... a pretty disappointing GitHub profile. All of the commits are documentation (barely), it seems.

2018-09-23 14:56:28 UTC  

that's the point

2018-09-23 14:56:36 UTC  

these people are parasites

2018-09-23 14:56:46 UTC  

they don't produce anything that has an actual function

2018-09-23 14:56:46 UTC  

Most of these people seem like typical East coast "startup culture" types.

2018-09-23 14:58:40 UTC  

John is guilty only of inexplicably whoring out the image of his family on his baby company: Giphy.

2018-09-23 14:59:55 UTC  

I think I ~~know~~ have met a couple of these people.

2018-09-23 15:02:12 UTC  

I'd look at the odd ones out: the west coast folks. ;- )

2018-09-23 15:02:19 UTC  

Alondra Nelson is a member of the "Social Text Collective", post-modernist journal that became famous for publishing a fake nonsense article.

2018-09-23 15:02:39 UTC  

I bet she receives state funding

2018-09-23 15:03:08 UTC  

Alondra Nelson seems like your typical activist in that area, and thematically related to their recent release I guess.

2018-09-23 15:04:11 UTC  

I think I have a copy of one of those books sitting around here...

2018-09-23 15:04:18 UTC  

Nelson "shared the case of Georgetown University’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which used genetic ancestry testing to identify the decedents of 272 enslaved people that were sold in 1838 to pay off debts at Georgetown. These cases are complicated, complex, and remain unsettled. Alondra Nelson reveals the role that genetic ancestry testing has played and the meaning-making of what people want these tests to do."

2018-09-23 15:04:55 UTC  

Yeah, that one's right on her D&S profile

2018-09-23 15:06:24 UTC  

Guys

2018-09-23 15:06:32 UTC  

I wonder if it's possible to get Supreme brand youtube videos

2018-09-23 15:06:38 UTC  

the video is watchable for $900

2018-09-23 15:06:46 UTC  

and it's just jake paul shitting in a bucket

2018-09-23 15:07:03 UTC  

_Deirdre Mulligan_ seems just fine, fellow IEEE member.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/deirdre-mulligan/

2018-09-23 15:07:23 UTC  

@King Canuck If you can dream it, you can make it.

2018-09-23 15:07:31 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463054787336732683/493438271918047233/o76XIKmQGrwpd-rNvXtxQLImQ9Sbsee1h3k52rorOpc.png

2018-09-23 15:07:33 UTC  

FOund on the MCU sub

2018-09-23 15:07:39 UTC  

the three things strange saw that needed to happen

2018-09-23 15:09:15 UTC  

@King Canuck hmmmmmm

2018-09-23 15:09:37 UTC  

I need to see ant man and wasp I'm so lame

2018-09-23 15:09:45 UTC  

get fucked it was months ago