I really don't like throwing the word "pseudo-intellectual" around because its mostly used to mean "I think I'm smarter than you". However, this person begins

I really don't like throwing the word "pseudo-intellectual" around because its mostly used to mean "I think I'm smarter than you". However, this person begins their article poisoning the well, saying, > I find that the people I talk to about this instantly flip on the condescension switch and try to mansplain this shit to me as if. Proceeds to speak in that very same condescending tone, presenting a smarter-than-thou trundle down from the mountain. All the while including some nonesense about logic. This person clearly has a chip on their shoulder: tacking on things about community-regulation in an article about Null, like all technical public engagement authors do. Let's signal "what good behaviour we expect" in the midst of a book pitch and a confused discussion of a technical matter. One of these goals can be failed in its attempt with good nature. When you smush all this together it seems an exercise in performative intellectualism, or more accurately, pseudo-intellectualism.