• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 days ago

    I’ve gotten at least one report on a comment over this one, and for now I’m leaving it alone. It’s apparently just tumblr lite up in here. I’ll part with this:

    Fellas, this is rage bait. Somebody posted this to rile you up. It’s probably not real, and even if were it was lifted from reddit gods alone how long ago. The original OP, whoever they are, they’re not going to see your replies directed at them from here of all places. Even if it ain’t fake, it’s still bait.

    (Also, INB4 anyone managed to mention the Dresden Dolls song. So there!)

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldM
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        11 days ago

        Ted Kaczynski, AKA the Unabomber.

        His bent was having a strong anti-technological stance, essentially arguing that mankind’s increasing reliance on technology was going to be its undoing, yadda yadda. One of his predictions was that the emergence of a computerized artificial intelligence would result in the eventual enslavement of humanity by the same. Unknown if he’d just watched any of the Terminator movies beforehand.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 days ago

          Would you rather us get rage baited or really tell the class how Lemmy feels about uncle Ted?

          You don’t have to answer 🤣

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldM
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            11 days ago

            Ooh. Does that mean we get to once again bring out the conspiracy theory that he was fucked in the head due to being messed with via the MKUltra program, by the very same government who eventually locked him up?

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              11 days ago

              There is no way to tell why he did what he did but he was subject to these experiments, ain’t that part factual?

                • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  11 days ago

                  Ted Kaczynski, an American domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, was said to be a subject of a voluntary psychological study alleged by some sources to have been a part of MKUltra.[125][126][127] As a sophomore at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a “purposely brutalizing psychological experiment”, led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray.[128] In total, Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray

                  Among the subjects was 17-year-old Ted Kaczynski, a mathematician who went on to become the domestic terrorist known as the ‘Unabomber’, who targeted academics and technologists for 17 years.[9] Alston Chase’s book Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist connects Kaczynski’s abusive experiences under Murray to his later criminal career.[8] Kaczynski himself disputed connections made between Murray’s experiments and the Unabomber bombings, stating that throughout the study, he only had one unpleasant experience for just 30 minutes.[10]

                  In 1960, Timothy Leary started research in psychedelic drugs at Harvard, which Murray is said to have supervised.[11]

                  Some sources have suggested that Murray’s experiments were part of, or indemnified by, the United States government’s research into mind control, known as the MKUltra project.[