• @selfMA
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    154 months ago

    Most shockingly to Urbit devotees and outsiders alike, the board welcomed back Curtis Yarvin, the project’s founder, who left in 2019.

    nothing has ever shocked me less than Yarvin “returning” to urbit

    In 2015, a technical conference rescinded his speaking invitation. The following year, another tech conference lost sponsors and was almost canceled because it allowed him to speak, over objections that this verbose, bespectacled engineer would make attendees feel somehow “unsafe.” (Perhaps some feared he would bore everyone to death by reading his posts aloud, or torture them with his poetry.)

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    While the cancel culture of the 2010s and early 2020s may be subsiding, bringing Yarvin back remains a calculated risk for Urbit, William Ball, the board member, said on the developer call.

    these fuckers are still fucking seething over their adult baby godking being asked not to come to a functional programming conference because he publicly advocates for a fascist takeover of the United States, receives funding from fascists, does press interviews promoting the fascist influencer circles he hangs out in, and is the computer science equivalent of a flat earther. how will our industry ever recover from the absolutely no value that was lost by disinviting him?

    • @selfMA
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      114 months ago

      “what kind of a boy is Curtis Yarvin?”

      well… he’s a birthday boy

    • David GerardOPMA
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      54 months ago

      and Hochstein is 100% on board

    • @o7___o7
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      44 months ago

      Somehow Palpatine Yarvin returned