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4chan collapses in massive ball of flames, leaving imageboard crown in the gutter. (Refugees Welcome!)
late last night, 4chan was finally kill. According to random anons on twitter, it was a massive hack that exploited outdated (since 2016) BSD issues to dump the database and take down the site. Some interesting claims flying around are that most /pol/ post... posted 1w ago with 4 replies 10 10

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Yeah 4chan was foundational. I started browsing as an edgy teen back in 2009 and have been using it on and off since. Like you say, my politics, my sense of humor, my hobby interests all come from 4chan. I know powerful and wealthy people with similar chan... 1w ago 3 3

Yeah 4chan was found 3 3

Kremlin's role in the creation of social media
Those of us who have followed early social media will remember the importance of Milner's DST investment in Facebook. Facebook received $100M at the time, and this allowed them to scale up and dominate social media. He also invested in a variety of other S... posted 3w ago with 7 replies 5 5 1 1

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Lol that's not a argument. I'm invested in our best efforts to understand all the relevant bits of reality, and you narrative doesn't contribute to that. 3w ago 7 7

Lol that's not a arg 7 7

Advice for smart, right-leaning zoomers
This post is from friend of mine whom I met at a right wing conference. He’s very intelligent and funny, I thought a lot of these tips were very good, some I hadn’t heard before. I am doing most of them pretty well and am beginning to find a path for m... posted 1mo ago with 4 replies 14 14

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Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 3w ago 3 3 2 2

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Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t. Tough love from Casey Handmer (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com) posted 3mo ago with 2 replies 8 8

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I'm a fan of Handmer and this was an interesting challenge to my usual resume-hating ways. It made me think more about the compounding of skill and reputation required to get involved in and do great things. There's a boring resume-stacker interpretation f... 3mo ago 5 5

I'm a fan of Handmer 5 5

How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend... posted 11mo ago with 17 replies 14 14

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Greed: discourage attention seeking baitposts. Lust: automated porn detection and deletion, especially anything illegal. Pride: guard against group narcissism, including among ourselves. Sloth: a built-in reputation time-decay? Envy: encourage individual s... 11mo ago 5 5

Greed: discourage at 5 5