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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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More seriously, to save you the bother of reading it, he objects to comparisons between anti-slop sentiment and the actual Luddites, because slop haters are too… centralised? And then cites our friend SE Gyges in an update.
I clicked around the blog a bit and the guy’s definitely a slopfondler. But a reasonable sloperator, of course
Addendum: so this guy has apparently read all the literature on Luddites, yet still believes their concerns had anything to do with people being ‘displaced’ by ‘automation’. Fun reminder: ‘automation’ as a word literally did not exist until 1948.