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      Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Well that sucks. I've always had a lingering respect for Mullenweg because I think Wordpress.com is a good service, I really like Simplenote, and I thought that Automattic taking over Tumblr could not make stuff worse after the service being gelded by the porn-haters.
But his latest antics on moderation at Tumblr and now this (although he's hardly alone, Reddit is also gonna sell its user's contents to the AI mills) really showed his true face.
(I'll never forget laughing at him for losing tens of thousands worth of Leica gear in a lost/stolen luggage incident many years back)
of course he’s one of those
Well his tag is "photomatt" and AFAIK he was pretty involved in digital photography when that was the cool thing to be doing.
I found the post, from 2008: https://ma.tt/2008/05/dont-check-your-valuables/
All very expensive at the time, especially the Noctilux!
oh come on, don't say you wouldn't