• @Soyweiser
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    10 months ago

    It’s not clear, a lot of links are dead/scrubbed since then.

    That happens a lot with this H+ related stuff there also just seem to be periods where there is no content to mix it all up. (which, if you are going to be a bit delete happy is a good way to hide your deletions in the void, but in our advertisement seo driven world this is not a good method if you want to become well known and get your ideas out there, but I’m digressing and I don’t know the real goals of anybody here).

    But yeah, looked into Haywire and got a bad vibe from her (and an annoying vibe, I don’t know how to put it into words yet, but I have noticed it in places, a sort of manic tech positivist (which can still be negative about the tech in a criti-hype way) writing of boundless opportunities and everything going faster and quicker and better just across the horizon, Don’t get left behind! But it remains all words and there is the vague stench of far right/libertarian bs, and no actual real tech. Manic Pixie I Fucking Love Science posting (this is not great as it misses the spiritual element of this style of posting, but I have not found the correct words to describe it, in the case of Haywire that she is an industrial goth musician fits).

    Vaguely related but calling the discussion between Haywire and Vita-More a catfight (in the link to some (now dead) Kurzweil forum) is a bit of that unconscious sexism which happens a bit in tech spaces (I’m just assuming it wasn’t intentional).

    Also I might have physically let out a groan due to the ‘trigger warning’ magazine name. (I also have some of her music apparently (A few of the Endzeit Bunkertracks collections) and oof she was singing about ‘being banned from everything you created’ in 2012 already. So very ahead on the curve on that one. (The music itself isn’t bad for that kind of industrial cybergoth stuff, just a bit mid (And I don’t mean that in an insulting way, bad cybergoth stuff is really bad imho)).

    • David GerardMA
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      510 months ago

      got a bad vibe from her

      the bad vibe is that she’s been techfash forever

      • @Soyweiser
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        510 months ago

        Yeah sorry, the bad vibe was 10 hours ago, did more reading and came to that conclusion. A 2012 neo-reactionary.

        • David GerardMA
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          710 months ago

          a long history of being one of those names you see and go “this asshole again”

          • @Soyweiser
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            410 months ago

            Amusing how often people go ‘she denounced NRx in 201x’

            • David GerardMA
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              310 months ago

              * how often other reactionaries