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I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don't think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.

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[-] m@blat.at 5 points 11 months ago

@dgerard me: what is an urbit
wikipedia: look, you really don’t want to know, but if you insist…
me: 🙀

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

David wrote the better parts of that article! we’ve also got a few threads on urbit here on awful.systems (for example) — we dig into Yarvin’s original spec and find where he flat out says the namespace is meant to be an implementation of neoreactionary (technofascist) ideas, and I find some light but damning evidence that all of the supposedly interesting ideas in urbit are poorly implemented, plagiarized versions of ideas that Eelco Dolstra wrote about when describing the mathematics behind the then-obscure NixOS, for a master’s thesis whose publishing date was right before when Yarvin claims to have started on urbit

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

oh also, Tlon, the company behind urbit that certainly isn’t just Yarvin and Thiel hiding behind a shrub giggling, is a cult accelerator responsible for at least one high-profile death cult (Remilia, who host a bunch of infrastructure on urbit and are extremely active in the urbit community)

just in case you wondered if this rabbit hole led anywhere remotely sane

[-] m@blat.at 3 points 11 months ago

@self So basically it's like a science fiction novel, except that they haven't realised that it's one of those novels where the author develops an entire society based on some weird totalitarian cult just so they can spend the rest of the plot demonstrating how nutso said society is?

[-] self@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago

yep! all these weird fuckers dream of pulling an L Ron and being taken seriously

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