largely not available digitally, though someone’s putting together a Borsook reissue

surely this is a post about tech nazis, and not a post about how to argue language design features.

Cyberselfish by Borsook, several books by Dery but particularly Escape Velocity

Mark Dery and Paulina Borsook nailed these fuckers square on in the '90s, but nobody reads books

it’s a shitty paper but even they couldn’t avoid the point forever

the story of open source burnout for the past 20 years is that venture philanthropy was not a thing, quite the opposite

“He comes from the Bay Area, being techfash is part of his culture”

amused to see even /r/hyprland thinks omarchy is dumb shit

oh lol it’s even worse

crikey. I assume the CV is in good order and kept updated on the job sites just to see what comes in.

ty!

the talking point about disparaging terms for AI users by choice “I came up with a racist-sounding term for AI users, so if you say ‘clanker’ you must be a racist” is so fucking stupid it’s gotta be some sort of op

(esp when the made-up racist-sounding term turns out to have originated with Warren fucking Ellis)

i am extremely disappointed that awful systems users have fallen for it for a moment

the historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this

tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages

I have no hope. The guy who introduced me to LessWrong included what I later realised was a race science pitch. Yudkowsky was pushing this shit in 2007. This sucker just realised a coupla decades late.

yeh

nah. Sam’s a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.

Is there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?

look, that sounds like a “this afternoon” problem

enterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious

where was this?