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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!

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

the eternal mba graduate worldview

like with the terrorist group isil, you should not give it to freddie de fucking boer.

you also clearly don’t care about labour (as in labour costs being driven down, people’s labour being used without consent, people’s labour being stolen and used for enrichment of few.)

i guess Δv learned that the sense of the velocity vector can be important too.

you’re new (to the site, and here), aren’t you?

also: lol @ good faith edits.

not even just an apologist, a literal hardcore german neonazi. matthew garrett surfaced a 2018 mail to a devuan mailing list chock full of nazi historical revisionism that you don’t get into casually.

i prefer that you take your ableist vocabulary somewhere else, preferably stick it up your arse.

fwiw, there’s a telling detail about ptaček’s attitude to people who he doesn’t see as his equals or peers: today is a second day in a row when he’s not able to use proper pronouns with regard to hazel weakly (who dared to criticise his article), despite being corrected by more than one person.

it’s either malice, or the principal engineer at fly dot io is not able to remember a single fact despite being informed about it three times.

he’s not a bad programmer, which is part of the problem here.

precisely. a fucking shame.