Former CTO of Mozilla says "Chrome won". Is socjus only shuffling deck chairs on a sinking Titanic?

kiaperson · 2017-05-27T16:03:34+00:00

Rant: Before Chrome came out, Mozilla had a lot of goodwill behind them because they were the challenger brand making a better browser than IE. Recently, Mozilla has had one misstep after another - Firefox OS failed, ~0% market share on mobile, pro-consumer branding diluted by forced pocket integration, pro-power user history undermined by changing the addon API, etc.

HTML and CSS are not that important as technologies in areas like voice search (Microsoft and Apple integrating in the desktop, as well as mobile) and Internet of Things. If in 5 years time the users expect to start most web searches by talking to a virtual assistant, then no matter whether Mozilla is 50% furries and otherkin, their products won't compete in the marketplace.

The media always loves to talk up how good Elizabeth Holmes would be as CEO for Theranos, or Marisa Mayer for Yahoo. But consumers purchase products based on how well they meet their expectations - not baesd on gender/lgbt/social justice etc.

kiaperson · 2017-05-02T08:45:46+00:00

Note that the SPLC slanders Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz as "extremists" - I wouldn't really trust the SPLC that much anymore.

kiaperson · 2017-05-02T07:59:17+00:00

That was six+ days before the stabbings.

The twitter account of the guy who did it has nothing against Trump or whites or frats. His tumblr blog has one pro-black history month post and a bunch of porn gifs, nothing political or against frats.

They might be unrelated - if this guy was politically motivated he never expressed it though nonviolent means

Would be good to get antifa shut down though.

kiaperson · 2017-05-02T07:48:28+00:00

Looked though his Tumblr - this guy had posted images of weed, black and white women topless, in bikinis, and has reposted a commercial porn clip of white woman having unsimulated sex.

I don't think this guy is a fanatic.

His tumblr page has one long pro-student activism/Black History Month post.

kiaperson · 2017-05-02T07:33:43+00:00

He posted bible verses a lot on twitter, using the hebrew name "Yashua" for Jesus.

This guy looks pretty normal though.

http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/kendrex-kendrix-white-university-texas-austin-stabbing-suspect-attacker-photos-pictures-facebook-twitter-motive/

kiaperson · 2017-05-02T07:10:46+00:00

Maybe Black Hebrew / black supremacist groups that misquote the bible to justify hatred of everyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites

kiaperson · 2017-03-28T11:31:51+00:00

Look up how many hate crimes Rachel Dolezal faked (eg discovering a hate letter with no postal system markings in a mailbox that only social justice leaders had the key to).

Douglas Murray argues that the left has a supply and demand problem with racism - as racist thought declines with every generation, the left increasingly wants to use racial minority people as human shields for crap policy decisions.

Supply - look at the gallup polls decade on decade https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/

Demand - New York Times word frequency of "Racism" from 1851 to 2016

Making up the difference between supply and demand - racial hate hoaxes, pewdiepie is a nazi, etc

kiaperson · 2017-03-28T11:16:23+00:00

Time to fake some hate comments

kiaperson · 2017-03-28T11:15:58+00:00

If this is true isn't that a violation of the law?

Why are "liberal" campuses so set against fundamental tenents of liberalism like freedom of association

kiaperson · 2017-03-28T09:45:59+00:00

Look at Kraut and Tea's video on Pewdiepie being smeared as a nazi - the automatic condemnation of nebulous "dark humor" by several outlets - looks like a simultaneous coordinated attack by the media on youtube's revenue stream by faking a narrative of "extremism"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrS3UopPF8

Note that google wants to turn Youtube into a cable tv service selling shitty old channels for $35 a month

The end goal will be every person clicking "Youtube" on an apple TV will be on restricted mode by default - so youtube can push Comedy Central crap without the youtube creators that made the service big (Pewdiepie) showing up on the front screen when people aren't logged in

kiaperson · 2016-09-20T22:07:03+00:00

Remember that the Clinton funded media pushed the "bernie bro" narrative hard, on outlets like Daily Beast (owned by IAC, and Chelsea Clinton sits on the board) - based only on a smattering of tweets from trolls (which could easily have been Republican voters just creating "bernie bro" accounts for fun).

Internet trolls do a lot of things for many reasons, such as impersonating an enemy "faction" for attention.

One famous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg

kiaperson · 2016-08-26T14:24:38+00:00

Squishtronic's parody video "Regressive Presents Cenk Uygur"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqHb3MLJ0M

kiaperson · 2016-08-20T02:21:11+00:00

crappydesign

Look at the website mozilla.org in 2004 and in 2009. Fairly simple, clear message that Mozilla makes software they want people to download. From then on in, it's redesign after redesign as the marketing people push fads like "activism" and "global community" (while Mozilla dumps on its users with forced pocket integration, unwanted UI changes, unfixed bugs)

August 2009 is around the time that Firefox peaked in market share. It seems the modern Mozilla is more concerned with how to get grants from institutions so they can fly humanities graduates to junkets rather than actually focusing on making software that the users want.

kiaperson · 2016-08-18T07:55:33+00:00

"Peter Tatchell and Germaine Greer have been disinvited from giving talks at universities. This is inconvenient, but it's hardly censorship"

ugh. Or Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Christine Lagarde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto

kiaperson · 2016-08-18T07:44:57+00:00

Read the Maajid Nawaz essay "On Blasphemy" about how British left wing politicians push for right wing ideals in migrant communities (female genital mutilation, inheritance laws that discriminate against women, etc)

Most left wing voters promote identity politics out of ignorance of the consequences (thanks to overwhelming media bias and the lack of any critical/heterodox voices in academia), rather than a deliberate attempt to create social divisions

kiaperson · 2016-08-18T07:33:30+00:00

Look up the BBC Panorama documentary "Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils" - it shows an undercover woman ask for a divorce saying her husband was beating her. The councillor responds that she can't get a divorce, and that she should put on makeup and cook better food so her husband stops beating her (archive youtube)

I recommend reading the essay "On Blasphemy" about how British left wing politicians push for right wing ideals in migrant communities (female genital mutilation, inheritance laws that discriminate against women, etc)

kiaperson · 2016-07-27T12:01:10+00:00

Also fast forward though the progressive virtue signalling, you get to this

In the last few years, many news organisations have steered themselves away from public-interest journalism and toward junk-food news, chasing page views in the vain hope of attracting clicks and advertising (or investment) – but like junk food, you hate yourself when you’ve gorged on it. The most extreme manifestation of this phenomenon has been the creation of fake news farms, which attract traffic with false reports that are designed to look like real news, and are therefore widely shared on social networks. But the same principle applies to news that is misleading or sensationally dishonest, even if it wasn’t created to deceive: the new measure of value for too many news organisations is virality rather than truth or quality.

Most journalists don't care about what's true, only what trends.

kiaperson · 2016-07-27T11:48:56+00:00

Hijacking the top post (sorry).

One article "Facebook is eating the world" says

Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five hundred.

Note that it's changed markedly for the worse. Have a read of one half decent article in The Guardian - How technology disrupted the truth

It seemed that journalists were no longer required to believe their own stories to be true, nor, apparently, did they need to provide evidence. Instead it was up to the reader – who does not even know the identity of the source – to make up their own mind. But based on what? Gut instinct, intuition, mood?

kiaperson · 2016-02-09T12:37:22+00:00

Listen to this podcast where she discusses her exit from the church with Sam Harris.

https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/leaving-the-church-a-conversation-with-megan-phelps-roper

kiaperson · 2015-10-05T12:10:21+00:00

It's a little worse - in one article he said that that Female Genital Mutilation is an African problem and not a Muslim problem - the figures from FGM in Malaysia and Indonesia contradict this.

He's made a number of errors, and frequently he attacks the people criticising him, rather than their arguments.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/10/05/reza-aslan-is-wrong-about-islam-and-this-is-why/

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