3d ago

this is a piece about Urbit by someone who is totally not a nazi for a totally not nazi mag and it's hilarious

www.compactmag.com

The Rise and Fall of Urbit

archive: https://archive.is/jS1PO

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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.
- Hey, urbit was good when it wasn’t conceptualised yet
- You're giving me flashbacks to my old gig
"“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/
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.
the centre of this piece is her explicitly saying for several paragraphs that she takes bribes lol
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
- "The roadmap assures that they have retained a “world renowned architect (to be announced)” to design the city"
  $5 says they claim to be using an AI-simulated Frank Gehry.
- That ramble fails to note the obvious: that the stills from Every Angel is Terrifying are Evangelion on ketamine.
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/
- yes, it's Urbit failing to reach its target
- Is Blockchain Socialism like the National variety?
  
  Part of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex

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