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Elizabeth Spiers
Personal blog · elizabethspiers.comwritingpolitics
Elizabeth Spiers's personal blog at elizabethspiers.com covers writing and politics. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Requiem for Early Blogging”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its critique of cyberlibertarianism. One commenter calls the linked post an excellent text and lists further reading on the Californian Ideology and neoliberal geography.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Digital Strategist, Writer, and Podcaster
Most-linked posts?
- Requiem for Early Blogging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-25
- The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-01
What Hacker News says?
This is the same person who just doxxed a journalist who dared write about her negatively [1], and made up a story (quite similar to the current one) about another journalist who wrote about her positively [2]. This person is being assessed for their actions: changing from a far-right racist to a far-left racist/sexist. Their pretending to be a victim was fairly predictable. 1. https://twitter.com/shanley/status/556…
Comment linking /on-the-matter-of-weev-vs-kane/
on “A Statement from Shanley of Model View Culture”Submitted The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites as a story · 15 points
HN discussionExcellent text and Winner's "Cyberlibertarian Myths And The Prospects For Community" is a milestone. Further reading: 1) Barbrook, Richard, and Andy Cameron. ‘The Californian Ideology’. Science as Culture 6, no. 1 (1996): 44–72. 2) Harvey, David. Spaces of Neoliberalization: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. 3) Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart…
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on “The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism”Submitted Requiem for Early Blogging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top Five Digital Media Launch Mistakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Requiem for Early Blogging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy Fourth (Or, on the virtues of political homework.) as a story · 1 points
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