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Trace Underwood
Personal blog · tracingwoodgrains.medium.comculturepolitics
Trace Underwood's personal blog at tracingwoodgrains.medium.com covers culture and politics. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Medium author's piece on speedrunning college, saying readers may enjoy it and noting a college speedrunning community. A second commenter cites a separate sanewashing article.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I think you'll enjoy this: https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/speedrunning-college-my... There's actually a bit of a college speed running community.
Comment linking /speedrunning-college-my-plan-to-get-a-bachelors-degree-within-a-year-abe741c4c8bb
on “I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months”Submitted /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification as a story · 275 points
HN discussionI read an interesting article blog post some time ago about "sanewashing" [1] Sanewashing is the process by which radical policies get watered down - as a political movement becomes more mainstream, every new member wants to be able to explain the movement to their parents, and so chooses a slightly less radical, easier to understand interpretation. This happens over and over again until you reach the point where th…
Comment linking /r-antiwork-a-tragedy-of-sanewashing-and-social-gentrification-56298af1c1a7
on “Luxury beliefs are status symbols”Submitted Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters” as a story · 176 points
HN discussionSubmitted /R/Antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification as a story · 20 points
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