I'm a bit of an internet deep diver. I don't like, dox people or go out looking for terrible things, or anything. I just tend to notice little weird things sometimes and then follow the thread for a while to see where I end up.

Linux-is-best was definitely off, worryingly so. I'm not even sure that the things they posted about their real life, like their job, was accurate.

They also were not possible to engage with. It's just not what they were doing here. Online, there's no way to force a genuine interaction. Like, offline? I could look at them in the eyes and tell them something and they'd have to at least consider it. Online it's so much easier to harden yourself against that, or to click away, or to focus on a different comment that you can argue with instead. There's not really much benefit to engaging online with someone who isn't there to engage, which unfortunately means there's almost no way to help someone who is slightly crazy.

Them deleting their account is probably the best case scenario for them, although they are definitely the sort of person who has tons of accounts on other websites they switch between all day, so... Really, my point is that there's not anything anybody can do from here. You shouldn't feel bad about it, but you probably will for a bit, which is good because it means you've still got perspective and empathy.

Sci fi magazines are maybe the first people I'd expect to reject this. The upcoming misuses of ai is exactly what writers have been warning about for decades. Also, their inboxes are literally being overwhelmed to the point of uselessness with this low quality spam. That's not useful to anyone!

That's what they said in their final press release, but it's not really accurate. Other lgbtq groups (especially black ones) had been complaining for years about the people on the board, who had infinite term limits and never took any feedback (and were, as far as I know, all white and very disconnected) the george floyd protests happened and they put out a vague statement that had edited what their volunteers had written to remove the phases "black lives matter" and "we stand against police brutality". They also thew kind of a fit about being asked why they removed those phrases, and after some back and forth, 80% of the volunteer force left, so they COULDN'T really put on the parade anymore. Only then did they say they were dissolving the group (instead of passing it off to others, which is what people asked them to do). And they tried to spin that as stepping aside to let others lead.

Sorry for the wall of text, it just annoys me how they got to control the narrative there.