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Written by Molly White on 2025-01-14 at 23:55

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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Written by Joe Crawford on 2025-01-15 at 01:43

@molly0xfff In a talk by Marc Sageman many many years ago about psychology of 9/11 attackers he mentioned disproportionate number of engineers among them. Said mindset of ENG was to ignore centuries of scholarship on Koran in favor of rereading from first principles. Compared them to early 20th C anarchists (think WWI) also including many engineers. Talk at Navy War College I think. I may be slightly mischaracterizing but that's my hazy recollection.

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