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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by LWD@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan's /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users...

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about "glow in the dark CIA niggers", or glowies for short.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

If that dude got proper support, he could have done wonders; he made animated icons for his 16-color assembly-coded OS, and a simple 3d racer! All by himself!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Damn, I didn't know he got Chris Chan'd. Ugh. So fucking tragic.