Cursory Google search says, yes.
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twotone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t Bryan Lunduke a sem-closeted Qanon dude? Some of this article does smell of that kind of thinking.
Nurgle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HipPriest@kbin.social 10 months ago
My initial thought I'll admit was this guy could be a crank. But actually it doesn't matter if he is or not, he's clearly pointing out that Mozilla aren't spending their money on their products but on... Well something they're not exactly keen to tell anyone about.
If he's faked the documents that's different of course but that doesn't appear to be the case
twotone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t have to fake docs to create a false uproar. All it takes is painting things in a bad light and hoping your audience doesn’t dig deeper. EG the part I stopped reading at is when he put ‘cis’ in quotation marks and said the linked person was hating on cisgendered white people, when in reality the link they provided only showed the person saying that cisgendered folks are generally better off in the workplace.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So… I had more or less exactly the same reaction. The subtle shade that pervades the whole article jumped out at me, and we’ve only got his word for it that any of this is suspicious or that he actually reached out to anybody to ask what was up with these expenditures. That said, I did dig through the sources he cites, and (1) what he’s saying is factually accurate (2) I think he’s kind of got a point. E.g. it sounds like they gave $387,000 to a one-person consulting outfit. They have a left-leaning slant, which is obviously fine (although I’m guessing Bryan Lunduke doesn’t think that it is). But they also have a track record which I would not consider solid enough to justify giving them $387,000, and I think the question “what did they do in exchange” is a pretty fair one.
naught@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s very clearly written by someone who is anti-“sjw” and loathes to see the discussion of racial issues. It screams white fragility, which goes hand in hand with alt right conspiracy garbage. It has such a conspiratorial tone… meanwhile none of this info is a secret.