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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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. Also just came back from Spider-Man: Brand New Day, movie was awesome)


A very strange story about Bill Gatesā daughterās startup troubles: https://futurism.com/future-society/bill-gates-daughter-traitor-startup
It honestly doesnāt sound any more shady than any of the bullshit her dad got up to in the 90s (which is to say, itās still pretty damned shady!), but this Futurism blog seems to be trying to push the story into some sort of bizarre celebrity-gossip soap opera:
Anonymous internal sourcing seems like a typical feature of these exposĆ©s, so framing it like this struck me as a laughably absurd overreach. Plus the site has 3 or 4 different tiny articles on this same topic, making me wonder if itās one of those āany exposure is good exposureā sorts of things where Gates Jr.'s PR team is using the outlet as a cutout to raise her profile.
Bonus laugh line from Gates Jr. herself:
What does it even mean to shop like a genius? I guess Erdos probably had his amphetamine plugās number well-memorizedā¦
Phoebe Gates went to Stanford, and Stanfordās Effective Altruism club is still around and has gone full longtermist https://ea.stanford.edu/manifesto.html Guess which of our friends helped found it?
Her grift is the exact same one as the Honey extension from the megalag video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk - like her dad she just rips off better programs, but she didnāt even have the taste to copy an actual good product.
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Oh yeah, she popped up in that How To Rule The World book about Stanford:
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