She seems to think Urbit became crappy, when in fact it was crappy from the start. It’s what you get when you throw a handful of D-tier engineers at a shitty idea promoted by a fascist loon who loves the smell of his own farts.

the centre of this piece is her explicitly saying for several paragraphs that she takes bribes lol

Asterisk, Vox Future Perfect, and Astral Codex Ten are all LessWrong projects and none of them liked Yud’s new book either. Always remember that your political opponents are riven by factions too.

The reviewer mentions the heavy Ritalin (proscription stimulant) use by someone in her old social circle.

"“What’s mine is mine, right?” reads the headline of an advertising graphic designed by Tlon employee Romina Malta, whose aesthetic direction has shaped Urbit’s brand identity. "

Malta’s commission work is pretty much what my friend PK was doing in Chicago in the 90s. Not saying she’s copying, just that it’s not terribly fresh.

https://chicagographicdesign.club/articles/the-world-of-chicago-typographer-patric-king/

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-angel-investors-on-holy-land-march-2023

here’s the author’s previous ramble mentioning urbit

reads like she was angling for Dimes Square funding and didn’t get it

EDIT: and her earlier one much more about Urbit https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-a-more-beautiful-computer

I’m confused. This reads to me like a pretty clear criticism of Urbit and Curtis Yarvin. The author is perhaps a bit more explicit about that here: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/why-urbit-failed-with-adina-glickstein/