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Status 451
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Status 451 is a personal blog at status451.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2016, 54 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Days of Rage (2017)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Days of Rage (2017)13 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2017-01-21
- Splain It to Me7 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-11-15
- Splain it to Me4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-08
- Exclusive Inclusivity4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-06
- Social Gentrification4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-15
- Judging Things by Their Side Effects2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-08-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-05
- Another Point of View (On Diversity)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-04
- A Tale of Two Tyrannies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-18
- Miller’s Law in the Archipelago of Weird2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I think the American culture of "being tough on crime" was a reaction to the insanity of the 70s counter-revolutionary movements. In 1972 there were over 1900 domestic bombings in the US alone ( https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ ).
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on “California bans private prisons”Submitted The Importance of Having Your Pain Be Legible as a story · 114 points
HN discussionI really love this blogpost which discusses these two personalities, in the context of "corrections from strangers on Twitter". Some see corrections as "sharing information"; others see making corrections as asserting status/dominance which disrupts social harmony. https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
Comment linking /2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
on “Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well”Submitted Pieter Hintjens’ Last Hack as a story · 33 points
HN discussionIDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
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on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted Social Gentrification as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThe 70s were crazy in more ways than one. “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
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on “Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s”Submitted Another Point of View (On Diversity) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSometimes 'explaining what you said was wrong' is interpreted as showing you're a smarter/better person, rather than information sharing. I liked this blog post about it. https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ Yes, that comment could just be trying to be helpful / clarifying. I think it's not much of a stretch to say the upvotes incentivise the "popularity seeking" behaviour over "information sharing" beh…
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on “Tired of Stack Overflow”Submitted Social Gentrification as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMost people don't even know who Fred Hampton was. Even people who lived through the civil rights movement don't recall his name. My own parents downplay the violence of the 70s in favor of the rhetoric du jour that they're fed from mainstream media, and they lived in DC from 1972 until late in 1980 (and, all things considered, they are leftists, not liberals, which makes it even more astonishing to me). It's quite a…
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on “America is giving up on the pandemic?”Submitted Days of Rage (2017) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://status451.com/2017/08/06/judging-things-by-their-sid...
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on “The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo”Submitted Splain It to Me as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI liked the model in blogpost: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ It discusses that there can be different ways sharing information comes across. For some people, sharing information demonstration that you're smart enough to know the thing. For others, sharing information is for others' benefit. I wouldn't prefer to interpret "obviously" as "you're not as smart/cool as me if you don't know this", but…
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on “Compiling Rust is NP-hard”Submitted Days of Rage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis last point was recently covered on wrongthink blog Status 451: https://status451.com/2017/11/05/i-see-trad-people/ When people think of each other as blank slates and make progressivism the only acceptable viewpoint, maybe those inclined towards social conservatism just come out doing this "progressive in name only" thing, LARPing the themes of the last century in lieu of a consistent set of values.
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on “Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers”Submitted Days of Rage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere ya go: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ >Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought vio…
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on “YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech”Submitted Splain It to Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthis review is also very good if reading a 500 page book isn't on the table for those interested: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ (though it has its own political perspective that some may find disagreeable)
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on “1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’”Submitted Days of Rage (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThose who have worked with Jake won't be surprised at all by this. These are accusations coming from multiple people in the tech/privacy/infosec crowd, not from the government. For those thinking these are government-sponsored lies, do you think [Meredith Patterson]( https://twitter.com/maradydd ) of [Status 451 Blog]( https://status451.com/ ) is working with the government? https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/73880…
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on “Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project”Submitted Tales from Underwater as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn essay that winds around to a similar point: https://status451.com/2016/11/06/exclusive-inclusivity/
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on “The power of role models”Submitted Splain It to Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a good primer on "neoreaction" [0]. To tell you the truth, what makes it a good primer is that it doesn't begin to describe the so-called solutions to democracy (this is where it gets weird/awful, as you see people recommending aristocracy, autocracy and monarchy, etc). [0] http://status451.com/2016/02/25/what-is-neoreaction/
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on “Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf”Submitted Judging Things by Their Side Effects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe populace is not more divided now. They just don't remember how it used to be. > “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
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on “The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever”Submitted The Four Blind Men, the Elephant, and Alan Kay as a story · 2 points
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