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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 21:45:01 JST Charlie Stross

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   • Mike Knell

   @m @dgerard @o7___o7 @techtakes Back in 2007 I was a guest of honour at Penguicon. ESR was there and we got talking. As of 2007 he was all-in on all the insane "Eurabia" conspiracy theories and islamophobia. If you'd taken his word salad and substituted "jews" for "muslims" Julius Streicher would have hired him as a columnist in a split second. (That's when I added ESR to my list of "people I will not share a platform with".)

   He was somewhat less cray-cray in 2003.

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     Mike Knell (m@blat.at)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 21:45:06 JST Mike Knell

     @dgerard @o7___o7 He was weird and creepy before that (see his attempts to make the Jargon File say that everyone in hackerdom was just like him), but yeah, hoo boy. Him and the LGF guy were prominent cheerleaders for Dick Cheney's wilder fever dreams back in the day. The LGF guy got better, ESR didn't.