[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago

fig. 1: how awful.systems works

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago

yep. Even if WP Engine disintegrated into dust tomorrow, Mullenweg would still be the guy that fucked with the open source alleged charity that everyone relied on for a business grudge. Undoing that requires getting rid of the dependency on wordpress.org or getting rid of Matt.

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archive: https://archive.is/DSqXA

good thing Mark did nothing wrong

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wasn't sure where to put this one, but decided Wohl is the most crypto guy ever who didn't actually get into crypto

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also: remember that urbit literally doesn't work. the funding issues are cos they lost a huge chunk of the urbit ecosystem, who were techfash neoreactionaries like themselves and 100% on board with what urbit wanted - but they still needed a base system that like worked at all, so they moved to conventional Lisps instead

@self and i both keep saying we'll write that one up but never do, but it was a hoot

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago

as we said in the article, they can't ignore subpoenas

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

thankfully gives that one too, i.e.

Now I see a community whose commendable openness to unbiased discussion of any idea is being misused by questionable actors to platform their views.

seems to have been the last straw

(even as you or i might say "my good bitch have you met rationalists")

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

what if Ronald McDonald made a hamburger so delicious that civilisation collapsed? Can you prove it can't happen? Checkmate, athetits

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

that's because you need to get good and read the entire works of Lucidity to improve yourself

sorry, it's you

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago

look i think u need 2 approach this ishew with NUANCE

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago

they are sponsored by Thiel, so 'ave a bleedin' guess

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago

because (a) it's trivially growth-hacked by making it suck (b) they did in fact growth-hack it by making it suck, and presumably this was obvious to many involved.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 7 months ago

apparently so, I'm said to say

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

subhead:

An independent review

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The law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, was hired by Cruise

fuckin

Comments call it out straight away at least

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