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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Another attempt to platform fascists has cropped up in FOSS, and Drew DeVaultās talked all about it. Featuring our good friend Curtis Yarvin.
of course the organization I know primarily for platforming fascists and astroturfing on YouTube was secretly an even worse grift and somehow tied in with Yarvin, why wouldnāt it be
given that Rossmannās at the head of this thing too, Iām starting to regret not taking GrapheneOS (who, notably, were also a target for this grift) seriously when they said Rossmannās involved in a bunch of terrible shit. the right to repair deserves a better figurehead.
fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts
sigh
I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST
Damn right. He needs to quit, heās the one who sucks.
The fash donāt have magic doodoo fingers that obligate decent people to surrender every time they touch something we like, and we should never concede as if they do.
hadnāt been aware that rossmanās into dodgy stuff (knew fairly little about him outside of some repair stuff on his channel), but ugh
also clicking through into FUTOās projects and itās all a bit gravitating around a point, ābuilt on polycentricā. so I wonder what that means?
already at āIām interestedā because itās interesting to see what other work happens in this space.
and then very next sentence we get to
ah. I see. the āopt-out moderationā is also telling - how does it work? who knows! itās got a paragraph under introduction but seems to not be mentioned anywhere else in the docs.
extra frustrating to see because the projects these fucks are taking on (like the open cast thing) are items that sorely need stronger options in the open space. but not like this. never like this.
Ah, itās another Urbit isnāt it?
certainly has more than a bit of that urbit coiner Sovereign Individual shit going on yeah
I tried looking around a bit to see if I could find any info about contributors there, and for the most part none of them really seem to have much internet fingerprint at all. did find one person with a moderately extensive set of personal repo/project commits spanning back a few years, spanning long enough so as to find that they were doing a BSc/Hons/something circa 2018. which isnāt concrete but does strongly hint at a current age of mid 20s to mid 30s. āget 'em while theyāre young and you can poison their brains early!ā - the bayfucker mantra
god damn it. i guess the name of the founder might have been a hint, only one letter away from our favorite roman saluter.
i use immich, one of the projects they seem to have actually funded in a big way. itās a very good selfhosted replacement for google photos. at least the license is actually open source, as opposed to grayjay, so hereās hoping it has a future in case the fascists try to fuck with it.
i guess the problem though isnāt with the funding and/or control of individual projects, itās with the long-term influence in the foss community they seem to be after.
i had a feeling about FUTO because of rossmannās involvement. became leery of him after this youtube bullshit from 2018: