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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)
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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 106 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I didn't know that word.

Noun

glowie (plural glowies)

  1. (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.
[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology ("CIA N*s glow in the dark"). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah.. didn't expect Google to plain text that one for me...

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan's /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users...

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about "glow in the dark CIA niggers", or glowies for short.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If that dude got proper support, he could have done wonders; he made animated icons for his 16-color assembly-coded OS, and a simple 3d racer! All by himself!

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, he was definitely talented. It's unfortunate that he was not only schizophrenic, but also had followers that made it worse.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Damn, I didn't know he got Chris Chan'd. Ugh. So fucking tragic.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago

So it's a narc, but if you're racist