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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)
submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] solrize 94 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I didn't know that word.

Noun

glowie (plural glowies)

  1. (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.
[–] notsoshaihulud 46 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology ("CIA N*s glow in the dark"). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English

[–] blazeknave 6 points 16 hours ago

Yeah.. didn't expect Google to plain text that one for me...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours 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...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 21 hours 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 removeds", or glowies for short.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours 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 12 points 18 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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

So it's a narc, but if you're racist