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ardent cyberlibertarianism critic David Golumbia died yesterday morning. His loathing for orange site style dweebery could kill a cow at 20 paces. (davidgerard.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

David worked in financial software in the 1990s before getting the hell out of tech, never to return.

David was a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University — he was that Marxist college professor you hear so much about.

all of this is a wonderful summary of David’s work and background, but having worked on finance-adjacent software in the past, I felt this correlation in my bones. there’s a direct line from seeing how the fudge is made at a large financial institution to becoming a socialist educator, and it makes a lot of sense that David followed that path.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did six months in the City at a place that just did financial information, and I can assure you that each and every one of our customers was casus belli for a particularly bloody socialist revolution.

sure learnt a lot about practical setup, care and feeding of systems that had to be flawlessly redundant, so that was something?