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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 17 minutes ago

they were on bluesky in the early days, recruited by the rationalists and neoreactionaries at bsky corp

the queer shitposters drove them the fuck off

the TPOTters were most put out that nobody accepted "oh no i'm not a nazi it's just my friend is" as an excuse

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

some liked pushing people around and being tastemakers (Watson, Myers)

not only is this the opposite of reality, your supporting link names neither

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

yes, it's Urbit failing to reach its target

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

Part of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

look some people just don't like women having hobbies

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

to ~~fuck~~ sell LSD to children

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday

and of course Anil Dash signed it

 

Micron makes ‘difficult decision’ to take the dumptrucks full of money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNSPL6BRuY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-ai-screws-us-again-memory-shortages-crucial-to-shut-down - podcast

time: 6 min 09 sec

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

"how foolish of you to believe the 24/7 barrage of propaganda about AI agents"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

while the antifa FP crowd long jettisoned all Yarvin's works, it occurs to me that the fa FP crowd don't seem to talk about urbit or Yarvin any more either

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

imagine a $100b GPU data centre with the disposability of a cubesat

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Distrust but verify

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