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Occupy Wall Street (hexbear.net)

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I'm lowkey awed that an organization claiming the name still exists.

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 day ago

I don't know if she still controls it, but the "@OccupyWallSt" twitter account was registered by Justine Tunney.

Here is a story about her from 2014:

One of the co-founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called on Barack Obama to resign as president, and “appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America”.

Justine Tunney, a self-styled “champagne tranarchist”, is now a software engineer at Google, but remains involved with Occupy Wall Street, through the occupywallst.org website, which she created.

In the petition, which currently has two signatures (a far cry from the 195,000 who follow the Occupy Wall Street twitter account Tunney started in 2011), she calls on Obama to arrange a national referendum to:

Retire all government employees with full pensions.

Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry.

Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.

You can read some of her tweets from the same time period here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140826051629/http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-google-employ-a-pro-slavery-lunatic-1612868507

She is more recently well known from various novel technical hacks, such as llamafile which Mozilla is now collaborating with her on for their client-side slop generator.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I've been following her for a while now due to her technical skills. I haven't seen her do anything at all for IRL politics since then, so it seems like this was a past phase that she hasn't commented on. She makes the claim "created the twitter handle" rather than something more substantial like "runs the account".

I hope she isn't still a weird person but it's hard to know with these ex-Googlers.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

Her lack of recantation leads me to assume the worst, that she is still an NRx edgelord but now is just self-aware enough not to shitpost on main. Also, her technical skills are certainly impressive but I don't actually want to see ad-hoc binary distribution of software re-normalized. The world doesn't really need esoteric "actually portable executables", it needs trustworthy supply chains for reproducibly-built binaries.