(Hillsborugh County, NH) September 12th, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REMARKS TO THE ATROCITY THIS WEEK:
This platform does not support both extremism and political violence and the assassination to Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA. Hatred should never be externalized to violence with or without weapons.
I want to be very clear: I have blocked certain followers over the last couple of years where I suspected have appearance of extremism. It was so bad, that I considered canceling the site for the 5th time because of the events following the attempted assassination of now President Trump last summer, made me wonder “am I indirectly creating evil?” My audience skews older, based in the South part of the US and are gray bearded white men… this is why I am alerting my followers.
I know that the majority of the #RetroTech community is also extremist as well – in a different way. And they have been selectively silence this week, but will speak out in other events. It’s a shame on them. Also there is a reason why I do not use Discord, or even host a so-called “server” as the events this morning showed apparent private communication was turned over to the Feds per to a Friday morning presser.
Niche communities, global connectivity, lack of regionality, lack of neighboring of fellow phone geeks IRL is what leads to isolation, depression and extremism. All Retro Tech folks should be extremely mindful in the future should institute boundaries and avoid this parasocial culture that *indirectly* leads to these atrocities
To the Retro Tech communities: #ifyouseesomethingsaysomething – block people where their front facing socials have strong political undertones, don’t be affiliated with them, second start to institute a boundary with your audience, get regional and local IRL other than VCF events. I personally didn’t like much of Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, but in podcasts the shtick was less overt, but I am a political nerd second to tech.
If this appears to be scripted, it’s because I have seen the writing on the wall for a while. There is a specific reason why my content is New York like. I speak to a single region and if any other global audience is tuning in they’ll pick up the regional undertones if they really cared. I really live near Boston but no one really gets New England and it’s 6 states, but there’s a reason why I don’t use the metric system or talk about other parts of global telephony because a) I never left the country and b) it’s not my primary area of dominate influence or ADI. Think of the domestic CNBC for so many years with their New Jersey-centric presentation.
The other concern that has scared me. Allaboutism is the cancer. Obsession on one subject limits the world around you and for some people it degrades humans to become animals. Get a life, hug your family members, touch grass, and people like me and other competing retro tech people are just nearly things on a screen