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> What it didn’t cover is people who rage against them. For "Cross-cultural communication tensions", I think this essay is excellent: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

Have you read Game of Mates(https://gameofmates.com/)? It discusses crony capitalism in Australia and has some concrete policy recommendations. If you're looking for other references on activism the Radical Book Club (https://status451.com/tag/radical-book-club/) series of blog posts has detailed book reviews and recommendations. It's targeted at right-wing readers but the advice applies regardless of your views.

Most people don't even know who Fred Hampton was. Even people who lived through the civil rights movement don't recall his name. My own parents downplay the violence of the 70s in favor of the rhetoric du jour that they're fed from mainstream media, and they lived in DC from 1972 until late in 1980 (and, all things considered, they are leftists, not liberals, which makes it even more astonishing to me). It's quite astounding just how fragile our memories are and how easily we can be (emotionally) manipulated. "Days of Rage" by Bryan Burrough is a good read on the subject (political violence in the late 60s and 70s). There's a good blog / semi-book review that I link people to when they seem intent on learning more of the history (which I originally got from a comment on HN during the 2016 election cycle) [0]. [0]: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

The other major author is Patrick Non-White (Obvious pseudonym). Others are listed at https://www.popehat.com/author/ though most haven't been active in years. For example Clark split off to https://status451.com/ a while back when his views got too extreme for the rest.

This is a good primer on "neoreaction" [0]. To tell you the truth, what makes it a good primer is that it doesn't begin to describe the so-called solutions to democracy (this is where it gets weird/awful, as you see people recommending aristocracy, autocracy and monarchy, etc). [0] http://status451.com/2016/02/25/what-is-neoreaction/

Heavy moderation is why people don’t hate each other even more. When I started using Twitter I followed loads of people who disagreed with me politically who I thought were intelligent. Lots of them are, and thoughtful but it just made it really obvious that there’s still plenty of support for people and views I consider odious. Non-filtered news consumption leads to a more accurate picture of reality in which huge portions of the population hate each other and there’s an excellent chance of widespread violence at the level of the US in the 1960’s again. https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ >> “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) > Recently, I had my head torn off by a book: Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage, about the 1970s underground. It’s the most important book I’ve read in a year. So I did a series of running tweetstorms about it, and Clark asked me if he could collect them for posterity. I’ve edited them slightly for editorial coherence. > Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.

The group that I see increasingly discriminated against in tech are those on the aspie/autistic side of the spectrum. In the past few days I've seen aspie wielded as an insult on more than one occasion. People on both sides of the spectrum contribute to cognitive diversity. People on the aspie/autistic end of the spectrum are increasingly at risk in environments where what you say and how you say it matter since they may not have the same social faculties/graces to know the right way to talk about something or even be aware that something is inappropriate. Political correctness creates a hostile work environment for those on the aspie/autistic end of the cognitive spectrum. BTW, If you enjoyed that article, also read this more recent article by the same author: https://status451.com/2017/08/06/judging-things-by-their-side-effects/ Edit: To whomever thought this comment was downvoteworthy, I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of Temple Grandin's book "Thinking in Pictures".

I'm assuming you don't mean the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Perhaps you mean the alleged Ada Initiative sexual honeypot, which came from noted "personality who no longer matters" and general wingnut Eric S. Raymond and was AFAIK never verified by anyone. I used to work in an office shared by some members of the Ada Initiative (the Wikimedia Foundation). While I can never say there isn't a secret conspiracy – that's the thing, one can never prove a negative – I know these people & why they do what they do, and these allegations are ludicrous IMO. Furthermore, one of the accusers, Meredith L. Patterson, hates the Ada Initiative and its founders, passionately. She's also been a strong voice against similar rushes to judgment and what some term "SJW" activism. While I think she's misguided in her dislike of the Ada Initiative, there's no chance she would collude with them, and there's no chance she would take part in some sort of conspiracy. You attacking her with MRA-style conspiracies... there's many levels of irony here that I find difficult to unfold. For the record I like her personally, I think she's a cogent voice of criticism that needs to be heard if you're seriously concerned with diversity. And, let's not forget, she's a brilliant computer scientist. I personally think she's given too much credence to MRA-style conspiracy theory in the past, but here you (and the rest of the MRA internet) are hitting her with one. I wouldn't wish that on…

I'll remind you about 1972: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) Current times aren't even that spicy.

IDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

Spoiler: the kind of person who will inject themselves into a community to make it more "inclusive and diverse" is exactly the same kind of person who will join or create a secret insider cabal. The venn diagram is a circle. https://status451.com/2017/05/18/the-backchannel-is-the-message/

"For nerds, information sharing is the most highly valued form of communication possible." https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

Relevant post: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ There are two common social perspectives: information sharing vs emotional harmony. From one perspective, the other seems rude or insane. If your message is corrected or added to, this is a chance to be less wrong. But it is also a chance to be embarrassed and seen as less knowledgeable than you seemed. Status seekers tend to assume the latter perspective, and therefor label such comments as rude, dismissive, conflict-seeking, etc. even if the OP had no such intention. This is also 95% of what "help i'm being harassed online" comes down to.

Related, and a good post: https://status451.com/2016/05/24/millers-law-in-the-archipelago-of-wei…

I think the American culture of "being tough on crime" was a reaction to the insanity of the 70s counter-revolutionary movements. In 1972 there were over 1900 domestic bombings in the US alone (https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/).

The populace is not more divided now. They just don't remember how it used to be. > “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States. ” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ "The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about."

Asking for proof or data: denying someone's lived experience. Having a debate: sealioning. Providing evidence: mansplaining. Yes I know, each of these terms has a well defined meaning. But that's not how they're used in practice. They are used in games of strategic equivocation. A better read is this post, which frames it as a conflict between people who communicate to share information versus people who are seeking emotional harmony and who interpret disagreement as one-upmanship. One person offers the gift of information, the other interprets it as a slight. https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

> While the radical left in the US exists, it is mostly harmless, unlike the radical right. This is patently false. It's just that there is a very long history in the 20th century of aiding and abetting the radical left, while crazy right-wingers tend to act out alone. Some survey essays and interesting reading here: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ and https://status451.com/2017/07/11/radical-book-club-the-decentralized-l… .

this review is also very good if reading a 500 page book isn't on the table for those interested: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ (though it has its own political perspective that some may find disagreeable)

An essay that winds around to a similar point: https://status451.com/2016/11/06/exclusive-inclusivity/

An interesting defense of LambdaConf's decision: https://status451.com/2016/04/17/a-tale-of-two-tyrannies/

Here ya go: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ >Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about. >One thing that Burrough returns to in Days of Rage, over and over and over, is how forgotten so much of this stuff is. Puerto Rican separatists bombed NYC like 300 times, killed people, shot up Congress, tried to kill POTUS (Truman). Nobody remembers it. >Also, people don’t want to remember how much leftist violence was actively supported by mainstream leftist infrastructure. I’ll say this much for righty terrorist Eric Rudolph: the sonofabitch was caught dumpster-diving in a rare break from hiding in the woods. During his fugitive days, Weatherman’s Bill Ayers was on a nice houseboat paid for by radical lawyers. Bill Ayers bombed the US Capitol building, something completely forgotten today. You might remember him - he was Obama's mentor. Someone tracked down a rare first edition of his manifesto and reviewed it and scanned a bunch of pages in. http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/ >Page 40 of the manuscript is typical: It outlines the Weather Underground's strategies for overthrowing the United States. Among the many…

Okay, so you're moving from "I think it's a conspiracy of anti-Tor state forces!" to "I think it's a conspiracy of women Jacob worked with, who I will stereotype as feminists and therefore likely to make false rape allegations!". There are several remarkable things about these thoughts -- such as the idea that you've already decided there's a conspiracy and are just trying to pick which one. But I'll concentrate on the last point. Both Meredith Patterson ("Jake finally raped enough people that Tor as an organisation couldn't ignore it anymore.") and Andrea Shepard are literally anti-SJWs: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/07/social-justice-warriors-wreak… http://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/indiegogo-campaign-funding-tech-confe… https://status451.com/2016/04/11/against-blacklists/ .. which raises the question, at least to me: what kind of prejudice did you apply to come to the ridiculous conclusion that the accusers "fit the stereotype" that they've so publicly criticized, other than that they are women?

Those who have worked with Jake won't be surprised at all by this. These are accusations coming from multiple people in the tech/privacy/infosec crowd, not from the government. For those thinking these are government-sponsored lies, do you think [Meredith Patterson](https://twitter.com/maradydd) of [Status 451 Blog](https://status451.com/) is working with the government? https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738801590333624320 > [blog.torproject.org/blog/jacob-appelbaum-leaves-tor-project …](https://blog.torproject.org/blog/jacob-appelbaum-leaves-tor-project) is a gross disservice to the Tor community. People deserve to know why Tor evicted its resident sociopath. https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802325565755392 > Tor had the chance to nip this in the bud back when Jake was just a plagiarist. They ignored it, and he graduated to sexual assault. https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802983173922817 > .@mmeijeri Jake finally raped enough people that Tor as an organisation couldn't ignore it anymore. I worked around Jake around 2009ish in the early years of the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. I've seen his charismatic pushiness routine that he uses to get what he wants. I joked that if you ever wanted to find him in a group photo, just look front and center. As time went on, I did hear more uneasy things about him. His name came up with a person I met at PyCon last year in Montreal, who then relayed a story that didn't go as far as sexual assault, but was…