ref: a124edf320fc6de9373e115b190e705148cad25f
parent: a7ec024030f821c098831d4aa6f143ecbaa1d0f0
author: sl <sl@stanleylieber.com>
date: Thu Jan 14 18:14:36 EST 2021
appendixl.ms: remove rails.jpg (thanks, jason)
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.R
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-.FG rails jpg
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.R
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+Once upon a time, khm was searching for
+.CW
+rails documentation
+.R
+and accidentally hit the
+.CW
+Images
+.R
+link. In the first page of results was a photo of the train tracks of Auschwitz. Its presence among the Ruby on Rails logos was so absurd and out of place that khm memorialized it. It was made in an era before actual Nazis had re-entered the public dialogue, so it felt like Google Image Search was denigrating Ruby on Rails by including this sort of imagery in the results.
+
+Generally speaking, 4chan types read it as an endorsement, which sucks. More recently, people who are not assholes have also begun to read it as an endorsement, which is even more unfortunate. Finally, the people who just get mad about things on social media have begun nesting in it. As a result, this image has been targeted for redaction by the 9front Internet Mob Mollification committee.
+
+Read:
+.ihtml a <a href="http://9front.org/press/news.ycombinator.com/2021.01.14.html">
+.CW
+https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25777580,
+.R
+.ihtml a
+
+.ihtml a <a href="http://9front.org/press/mastodon.social/2021.01.06.html">
+.CW
+https://mastodon.social/@stevelord/105509463981426031
+.R
+.ihtml a
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