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James Gleick

@cwebber @ricmac Wait, seriously? You’re promulgating a theory that a BOOK PUBLISHER hired a hacking group to attack Internet Archive? That is genuinely nutty. I think you should both know better.

1. They wouldn’t know how.
2. The attack was certain to create a wave of sympathy and support for the victim (and rightly so).
3. Publishers did have a narrow grievance with one of the least important IA programs. But they solved that via the legal system.

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Richard MacManus

@gleick @cwebber Well, I have no idea who this nutcase group on X is, I just thought Christine's theory was interesting and worth Re-tooting. I do agree that the Palestine stance this group is spouting seems off, and so the real reason they're hacking IA is probably not that.

Bill Hooker

@gleick @cwebber @ricmac

Less than four hours from a speculative post about a deeply weird thing to the Mansplainer Who Knows Better.

Hardly a record but still annoying.

Peter H. Fröhlich

@gleick Big name? Peddles the usual "you're all nutcases" line? Uses big words like "grievance" and "legal system"? There can only be one! James "Motherfucking" Gleick, international know-it-all of destiny. 🤮

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