Evinceo @ Evinceo @awful.systems

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Wait, there's another weird techno-cult?

Buried in a mountain of polite disclaimers and faux intellectual humility, we have this absolutely damning information which could have been the whole article:

Alice was polyamorous, and she and Drew entered into a casual romantic relationship. Kat previously had a polyamorous marriage that ended in divorce, and is now monogamously partnered with Emerson. Kat reportedly told Alice that she didn't mind polyamory "on the other side of the world”, but couldn't stand it right next to her, and probably either Alice would need to become monogamous or Alice should leave the organization.

This Drew character was fucking the intern? No mention of any sort of ethical entanglement regarding having casual sex with your live-in employee. Think of the utilitons you save by hiring a maid/grocery getter to have sex with instead of wasting your valuable genius-minutes actually dating.

The lack of commentary regarding it (there's one sitting at -15 that points out the obvious) makes me wonder if this sort of thing is the norm in EA circles.

Ok, I got a chunk of the way through it, they're running it less like a nonprofit and more like the fucking mansion family, what a horror show.

Alice and Chloe report that they were advised not to spend time with ‘low value people’, including their families, romantic partners, and anyone local to where they were staying, with the exception of guests/visitors that Nonlinear invited. Alice and Chloe report this made them very socially dependent on Kat/Emerson/Drew and otherwise very isolated.

Like if this was a journalist piece the first paragraph would contain 'cult' and it would relate this example, not make me wade through an entire section about his sit down interview with a Member Of The Family.

404 really gunning for household name status. I hope they can sustain this level of effort, the space really needs journalism like this.

Part of the point of these ideal cities is you get you set up your own system of low taxes, privatized everything, and no democratic control of the city. Libertarian fever dream, like seasteading.

I have it on good authority that sentient lab grown meat already exists in the wild, in fact it is the host of a successful podcast.

There was some remarkably juicy drama i saw on suckless personal pages (mostly manifestos) once but hell if I can find it now.

Individualist mindrot

He keeps talking though. This is my favorite bit:

The part I don’t understand is that you feel Gawker was scum. Thiel removed Gawker’s ability to be scum. Thus, by logic, the world was improved. Isn’t that the core of what you’re saying you wish billionaires did? Improve the world?

Wish we'd gone with software carpenter or software plumber.

Works on my machine

Most realistic Musk sales pitch.

Well put.

I think Urbit exists not because it's actually meant to work or do anything, but because Yarvin wanted the aesthetic of being a hacker founder tech guy. Proximity to tech folks was his bread and butter, right? Otherwise he'd need to get a real job and couldn't spend all his time generating bullshit.

I didn't find the thread you are talking about, but I found this instead, which is probably much worse.

(Edit: I did eventually find the thread!)

Did the jargon file fail to evolve, or did Raymond just stop maintaining it? It roughly coincides with when the full extent of his brain breakage became apparent ("anti idiotiarian manifesto.")

Or maybe it represents the end of when the Stallmanites, The corporate types (incl. Raymond) and the Linux Fandom actually saw eye-to-eye.

(I think Bioshock managed to do this for seasteading and biohacking)

Zuck is an antihero at best in The Social Network. It is not a sympathetic portrayal and it's not subtile. Trent Reznor did the soundtrack ffs.