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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
EDIT: this probably isnāt him, but Iāll leave it up. the real account appears to be /u/mister_cactus
Unsure where to put this or if itās even slightly relevant, but Iāve had some fun looking up the UH shooter guy.
I think Iāve found both his Reddit account and YouTube channel (itās been renamed a couple times). Kinda just wanted to see how much I could dig up for the hell of it. Big surprise that heās completely nuts
He got raked over the coals for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/126vycx/why_scientists_cant_be_trusted/
https://api.pullpush.io/reddit/search/comment/?author=burntbabylon
edit: reasoning and more details
hereās my chain of reasoning to get to the youtube channel:
burntbabylonhis early channel had some thumbnails made for him by ābastizopilledā, an ironic/unironic ābastizo futuristā whose does interviews in a black mask with a gun on him. he leads right into a bunch of other groypers and the guy in the screenshot I posted below. kind of wonder if that āblack mask with a gunā aesthetic influenced the clothes he brought to the shooting.
the channel names he used in 2023:
hereās a big pile of crazy tags he wrote on one of those videos (were people still writing tags in their video descriptions in 2023?):
edit again: holy shit these people all suck. assuming the youtube channel is the shooter, heās a friend-of-a-friend of this guy:
and if thatās true, heād be a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend of nick fuentes
tomatopaste43:
redhatfilm:
Friends donāt let friends OSINT. That saidā¦ people have found his twitter (still up), goodreads (deleted), github (still up, already full of troll github issues), linkedin (I guess deleted), an interview about has school games club (deleted), his game development studio which published one iphone game (facebook profile deleted).
His twitter account links to his linktree, but that only contains some inscrutable emoji rather than any links so hasnāt really been reported:
(Iām sure his inevitable groupies will be puzzling over the meaning of cow judge for years to come)
The youtube page you found is less talked about, though a reddit comment on one of them said āanyone else thinking burntbabylon is Luigi?ā. I will point out that the rest of his online presence doesnāt really paint him as āanti techā overall, but who can say.
NYTimes also reports a steam account, facebook account, and instagram account (couldnāt find any of these).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyregion/uhc-suspect-video-games.html
Other NYTimes articles are now investigating his health issues (back surgery, etc)
Edit: Look on reddit.com/r/spinalfusion where they discuss his spinal fusion x-ray and mention his (suspended) reddit accountās name.
i can stop any time I want I swear
apparently there was an imposter youtube channel too I missed
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-death-investigation-12-9-24#cm4hp9zyk000m3b6nobdudr15
not sure what his official instagram is, but I saw a mention of the instagram account @nickakritas_ around the beginning of his channel (assuming itās his). didnāt appear in the internet archive though.
also saw these twitter & telegram links to promote his channel, the twitter one was deleted or nuked (I use telegram to talk with friends who have it but the lack of content removal + terrible encryption means I donāt touch unknown telegram links with a 10ft pole, so I have no idea whatās in there):
I missed a couple videos which survived on the internet archive but I couldnāt make it through 5 seconds of any of them. one of them (āHow Humans Are Becoming Dumberā) cites that tech priest guy Gwern Branwen and āAnti-Techā was gone from the channel name by then. he changed the channel name a lot so maybe he veered away from it being an anti-tech channel?
edit: channel names were a little wrong, I put them in the parent comment
Speaking of imposters, thereās a screenshot of a fake manifesto substack post (since deleted) which has been linked a couple times on reddit.
The only problem is it was first published to substack over four hours after the arrest was reported according to the postās own json-ld metadata. People be trying to stir things up.
Amatuers. Canāt even publish the post early and edit it later for that extra bit of plausible deniability.
I swear, kids today have no respect for the dedication and craft that go into a proper disinformation campaign. Back in my day half this metadata wasnāt nearly as easy to access without viewing page source and we still put in the effort to try and confuse the four guys who knew where to look.
Fun detail from bsky, check the date https://bsky.app/profile/ieonardodavinci.bsky.social/post/3l7bs2gev6s2w
Yeah I really really hate the fanfic manifesto and people getting deep feels about it. Such a neat little narrative that conveniently references every authentic detail people have already dug up. Itās in such bad taste ugh.
my $0.02: āallopathyā is term that iāve only seen used by altmed cranks and i can guarantee some of these types will grift on it shamelessly
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