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

      • @blazeknave
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        413 hours ago

        Yeah… didn’t expect Google to plain text that one for me…

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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…

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        4817 hours ago

        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]OP
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          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
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            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!

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