I’m in a pile of excellent people opposed to the TESCREALists at this trying time in history. We need a name.

We have a list of possibles, but it’s actually hard to pick a nice name that doesn’t sound like an EA front group!

An initialism for S.N.E.E.R. probably won’t be the sort of thing we’re after lol.

What’s a name that’s (a) nice and polite sounding (b) says at least a bit what it actually is (c) doesn’t sound like an EA front group?

  • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
    2·
    7 小时前

    Honestly, I say we just mug what’s left of the Situationist International and take their shit over

  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
    6·
    14 小时前

    I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.

  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
    5·
    13 小时前

    Hmmm…

    • Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)

    • Mad At Reactionary Techies

    • Action Against Computer Cults

    • Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers

    • Silicon Valley Antifa

    • ???

  • Mitchell_Porter@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    14 小时前

    This seems a good time to remember Dale Carrico, the Berkeley rhetorician and Hannah Arendt fan who was opposing what he dubbed “superlative” futurological discourse, as long ago as 2009.

  • o7___o7@awful.systems
    English
    1·
    11 小时前

    The Centre for Actual Creativity

    I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      18 小时前

      not pitching an alternative because your suggestion is better, but I’m always tickled when I get to use the phrase “Actually Existing”, e.g. “Actually Existing Altruists” (see: “actually existing socialism”)

  • rhamph@awful.systemsEnglish
    9·
    19 小时前

    Nowtermism

    Or otherwise something drawing attention to the problems that exist in the world today, as I feel that’s the big antithesis to everything TESCREALists worry about (besides the racism, of course).

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
    8·
    19 小时前

    the Association for Software Sanity

    with corresponding conference the Association for Software Sanity Home for Originating Less Entropy

      • athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 小时前

        “Hmmmm… let’s see if a relevant domain name is available… com, no… org, no…maybe something less common… let’s try cx,…GRAHHHHHHH!!! NOOOO!!!”