It's not entirely wrong, what with the early transhumanists setting up shop in SF's hippie culture there was a new left and left anarchist influence on the early tech scene. However the 1980s and the fall of the left in the 90s caused that to disappear.

I do want to write my marxist history of transhumanism effortpost one day.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a former Discordian and guy who has read Robert Anton Wilson in his teens. These guys were clearly bad news from the start.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, I know, I grew up on the old USENET lists, but they were a significantly different flavour of bad news than what they became.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The seeds were there. One of those things thar ar the time you couldn't guess but there's a pretty clear progression in retrospect

[–] context@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

tell me more

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The hippie to tech bro pipeline is complicated and weird. It's currently my bed time. True Anon has ya covered for a lot of this

[–] context@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

goodnight