mawhrin

it was a general statement. (you got tagged because you boosted it, not because it was a direct reply to you.)

david heinemeier hanson of the ruby on rails fame decided to post a white supremacist screed with a side of transphobia because now he doesn't need to pretend anything anymore. it's not surprising, he was heading this way for a while, but seeing the naked apology of fascism is still shocking for me.

any reasonable open source project he participates in should immediately cut ties with the fucker. (i'm not holding my breath waiting, though.)

oh, and let's entirely ignore “consider phlebas”…

“let me be really brave and unique: let's imagine culture is how the azadians (or veppers, or the affront, or even the gfcf…) see them. let's ignore the basic fact that this misconception is the main reason why culture's opponents, ultimately, lose. i am very intelligent.”

“i have a theoretical doctorate in medicine”.

he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.

this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.

simon willison, the self-styled reasonable ai researcher, finds it hilarious and a good use of money throwing $14000 at claude to create an useless programming language that doesn't work.

good man simon willison!

it's a pure reputation laundering attempt, and should be recognized as such. (lol, got really heavily flagged there.)

he now pretends he didn't appeal for banning participants in the discussion, just the topic.

i shouldn't, but i'm really disappointed finding out how much a nasty manipulative little shit he is.

fuck, i can't imagine someone doing this, even though we do have fascists and neonazis in poland, but man, horst-wessel-lied is a fist-in-the-face offence level.

there's a bit more; tanja lange, a notable cryptographer herself and djb's partner was appelbaum's phd advisor (and didn't drop him after he got outed as a rapist).

krauss in this photo specifically reminds me of gibson's description of the finn