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Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft

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Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft

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That about me page is pretty cringe.

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Most likely nobody looked at it. As an interviewer I'll scan someone's GitHub or project if linked on their resume but won't generally do an extensive search for their online presence.

Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft

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I find it unlikely that somebody randomly shanks someone a dozen times just because of stress, in a workplace environment. Surely these two gentleman either knew each other and something had happened, OR the attacker knew the victim and there was some sort of issue, romantic or something like that to where he would've been angry enough to try and kill this other man. Of course Microsoft is going to say "Oh, they didn…

If the web page linked in another comment is authentic, the attacker was in a very bad mental state. I don’t think we can completely rule out previous contact, and the attacker was unhappy with his team members, but random chance also seems possible.

I lean towards authentic because a) the journal document is much too long to have been produced quickly, b) the text isn’t lifted from other sources, and c) the website was captured by archive.org in 2019. That last is most important since it’d be relatively trivial to train an AI to produce the kind of disassociated text we see there. Yay, 2022.

And just to get out in front of it: while there are all kinds of conspiracy theories and some racism in that document, I don’t see any ideological consistency and I don’t see accelerationist tendencies. I’m not a professional extremism researcher, mind you.

Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Most likely nobody looked at it. As an interviewer I'll scan someone's GitHub or project if linked on their resume but won't generally do an extensive search for their online presence.

Their personal website is linked on their resume. The Anne frank project isn’t listed on the resume but still…

https://web.archive.org/web/20220130094847/https://josephcan...

Re: Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Most likely nobody looked at it. As an interviewer I'll scan someone's GitHub or project if linked on their resume but won't generally do an extensive search for their online presence.

I’ve worked with HR departments that recommend against Googling to avoid bias, which I think makes some sense, particularly when it comes to politics. I don’t really want to know if a candidate cares deeply about (say) abortion one way or the other.
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