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ardent cyberlibertarianism critic David Golumbia died yesterday morning. His loathing for orange site style dweebery could kill a cow at 20 paces. (davidgerard.co.uk)
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[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

David worked in financial software in the 1990s before getting the hell out of tech, never to return.

David was a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University — he was that Marxist college professor you hear so much about.

all of this is a wonderful summary of David’s work and background, but having worked on finance-adjacent software in the past, I felt this correlation in my bones. there’s a direct line from seeing how the fudge is made at a large financial institution to becoming a socialist educator, and it makes a lot of sense that David followed that path.