“Look, you’re in a time loop, none of this even matters.”

I am guessing* that the “everybody freak out” part happened when the extent became evident and everyone realized all of npm was suddenly unpublishable, not so much because everyone individually freaked out individually immediately.

*extrapolating from the NPM community being described as frustrated but mostly forgiving.

I’ve been kind of following development of Sublinks, which hopes to reach parity with Lemmy with more typical web tech so development can go faster/with more contributors, and also so they can pivot to better moderation tools. Maybe it works out, maybe we learn to love the jank.

Incredible, they just use the limerick that appears in the “Exaggeration and distortion of mental changes” section of Phineas Gage’s wikipedia article, uncritically.

Urbit might be finished/usable in 100 years

In the comments someone asks the dev Jurij “What is the killer application or feature that I must have?” and he replies “No one knows.”

It probably does deserve its own post, I’m not sure I can do it justice. “Urbit is an attempt to make computers great again”, the phrase “from scratch” appears 7 times, “Urbit is doing God’s work to make the perfect computer”, [in a linked tweet] “Urbit fulfills prophecy”, “It’s [Urbit] a massive virtue signal”.

I missed the comments section at first. “This is one of the things Urbit got right. Especially useful to pique people’s interest and keep them invested by giving them a unique, cool identity.” Jurij claiming that Urbit is amazing because…usernames?

And then there’s the link to Plunder, which the NixOS-heads will have to investigate to figure out if it does what it says:

“Plunder is a new programming model where programs run forever. Hardware restarts are invisible to the software, as is moving a running program from one physical machine to another.”

Finally, Haywire has such lovely readers as *squints* “Eva Brawn”.

Rachel Haywire

Now that’s a rabbit-hole. As far as I can tell, she ran (runs?) a facebook group called “Humanity 2.0”. She “leaves neoreaction” every few years and is back within months. In 2019 she violated the by-laws of the Transhumanist Party elections by mentioning “Jeffrey Epstein or the history of Humanity+”. What they mean is that mentioning that Epstein donated $100,000 to Humanity+ in 2011 “hurts the public image of transhumanism”.

She apparently ran for Humanity+ President in 2013, lost(?), trash-talked Natasha Vita-More, who withdrew H+ support from Haywire since? It’s not clear, a lot of links are dead/scrubbed since then.

http://transhumanist-party.org/tag/rachel-haywire/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/transhumanistparty/posts/2389157701305002/
https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Haywire
https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/Transhuman/comments/139x2s/natasha_vitamore_vs_rachel_haywire/ (alternative reddit frontend)

Bonus: Ye Gods, her interview with an Urbit developer is really, truly, amazingly awful: https://archive.is/5I7Td

Oh shit, I guess the rationalists are starting to figure out that sneerclub moved!

Every sneer is one transphobic act suppressed in fear.

https://nitter.net/koksvik/status/1741698756301791600 (original on twitter)

Mr PhD in philosophy here thinks it’s not Singer’s problem whether his partners tell their partners of affairs with Singer.

On this personal site, https://www.koksvik.net/, I find this:

Papers Under Review

‘Benefiting from Epistemic Injustice’

Hmm.

Since the update to “UI: 0.19.0 BE: 0.19.1-rc.1”, pagination for comments seems to be broken? or disabled? @sunaurus@lemm.ee, do you know if this is a lemm.ee thing or a lemmy thing? I don’t see other people mentioning this when I looked for an issue.

What I mean: go to https://lemm.ee/c/meta?dataType=Comment&sort=New, and scroll to the bottom. The “Next” button is disabled (and if you edit the html to enable it, pressing it does nothing).

Then you throw out all the hard parts of the question like:
Then you ignore all of history

Seems to me that this is all swimming in the same water as End of History and anti-politics: defining humans and humanity out of the problem space, and insisting that in order to be taken seriously you must be focused only on productivity, good governance, and technological progress, the only problems.

These kinds of public errors are almost always a hard drive failure.

I’m not aware of any complete histories, but these two articles have the gist of it, while unfortunately missing out on a LOT of the weird things that Andrew Lee said while doing it:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover/

Guy with 4 wiki pages open, determined to win an argument, even if it means stacking shit until the other person stops responding.

The axiomatic definition of web3 as innovation rings a little hollow in such a farewell message.

A whole lot of violent death threats in that thread.

RMS

I enjoy that he posts regularly to mastodon and is categorically ignored.

I am sure governments and corps will continue to kick the can on all of these crises well past every single red line.

I’m still not convinced Hanabie was being ironic, but if so missing the satire is a core tradition of Sneer Club that I am keeping alive for future generations.