Another attempt to platform fascists has cropped up in FOSS, and Drew DeVault's talked all about it. Featuring our good friend Curtis Yarvin.
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I don’t see how this can be taken seriously;
That's because you're thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn't to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.
He has a personal website as well as a website for his stupid statue idea. Both of which are buggy / ugly – apparently after saving $450 million for a dumb statue he has none left for good website coding.
Tenner says he vibe-coded both of them himself. Man's a capitalist at heart, he thinks paying labour their fair due is an abomination unto God.
More "red hat" than "red flag", but you're still dead-on.
My exposure to the guy began and ended at seeing him tut-tutting HBomberguy for nuking James Somerton's career - glad to know my five-second assessment of him was dead on
The Framework thread caused by the company's fash turn is still going even after eight full days.
Lotta lowlights to pick from, but the guy openly praising DHH for driving Basecamp straight off a cliff is particularly sneer-worthy:
They posted this recent article written by Peter Coffin
Oh, hey, that's the "Plagiarism is AWESOME, And Here's Why" guy, who tut-tutted HBomberguy for erasing plagiarist shithead James Somerton from existence and went to bat for JK Rowling okay yeah dump this guy's shit in the fucking bin
I was pretty strongly anti-copyright back when I was younger, but after seeing the plague of art theft and grave robbing the NFT fad brought (documented heavily by @NFTTheft on Twitter), and especially after the AI bubble triggered an onslaught of art theft, cultural vandalism and open hostility to artists, I have come around to strongly supporting it.
I may have some serious complaints about the current state of copyright (basically everyone has), but its clear that copyright is absolutely necessary to protect artists (rich and poor) from those who exploit the labour of others.
Guy's been doing well for himself since the Escapist imploded in 2023 - he's doing video reviews and video essays over on Second Wind, under the names Fully Ramblomatic and Semi Ramblomatic, respectively.
(As for the Escapist, it got sold off to a "private investor" and turned into a gambling content mill in 2025)
New Baldur Bjarnason: The inevitability of anger, on the impending reckoning for AI and tech influencers' attempts to avoid it, plus how social media shapes public discourse.
I know full well you're being sarcastic, but my answer is an emphatic "NO". I feel like I'm gonna need a lobotomy to get this hypothetical out my head now.
New Ed Zitron, giving exact numbers for how much money Cursor and Anthropic have lit on fire and continuing to shed light on the AI industry's ability to incinerate revenue.
New paper on LLMs just dropped, titled LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!
Currently a novelty at this point, but could prove useful to make the likes of Iocaine and Nepenthes more effective - especially since the paper notes:
It does also suggest doing some actual quality control to prevent damage to the LLMs, but that sure ain't happening