* a GDPR violation, in Germany

yeah, I’m thinking he mistook it for a search engine

nothing springs to mind. mastodon has polls, of a sort, if a bit weird in activitypub. here’s the lemmy bug.

i would say just make a thread here to fill with crap, see what happens

I guess the actual concept might be so insane that there’s no way to write an article about it that makes sense and doesn’t use expletives

this is basically the problem. there was an article there already but it was based entirely on urbit’s descriptions of itself, which were all cultist gibberish. I went searching and found literally every Wikipedia-quality source I could. Most of these were about the people, not the tech.

lol i basically wrote that article

i’m sorry, i was describing something that is garbage

the short description is “lisp machines but networked, for nazis, and they don’t fucking work”

i’ve always pronounced it ER-bit

it helps they did it to someone with contacts and it was on prime time news telly

i think but cannot verify that Kinode is more of the same sort of guy (FP techfash)

and Hochstein is 100% on board

the proximate example is Holium - who are 100% believers in what Urbit and Yarvin want - who had to move off Urbit to a more, ah, functional functional programming stack because Urbit didn’t work

c.f. https://x.com/tiller_tolbus/status/1764787058906628347

sadly that was a fork that went nowhere

Problematic Nazi developer

also: remember that urbit literally doesn’t work. the funding issues are cos they lost a huge chunk of the urbit ecosystem, who were techfash neoreactionaries like themselves and 100% on board with what urbit wanted - but they still needed a base system that like worked at all, so they moved to conventional Lisps instead

@self and i both keep saying we’ll write that one up but never do, but it was a hoot

Hochstein is 100% an urbit in bio guy

and nobody describes that sort of hotel bar so well without too much time in them

I just love how the writing style is rationalist with one weird trick

ah, he’d understand people then? Heavy on the slipping into cultishness then

the problem of my life. I have literally found it easier to explain Scientology than Roko’s basilisk.

This is a work of fiction that Andrew just made up on holiday, but we are quite sure a dozen completely separate startup bros will be outraged that he lightly reskinned their life story

Metal and industrial both have a Nazi problem and you have to get unfortunately good at sign spotting.

Unforeseen issues with training AIs using the internet: every LLM has been taught to Rickroll

https://x.com/lazerwalker/status/1825782926098968958

https://x.com/Altimor/status/1825659507617460439