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2024-12-22 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird

@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet

Incidentally, I listened to Behind the Bastards on Curtis Yarvin, Part I. That podcast claims Yarvin was radicalized in part by the "Eternal September" of 1993, when usenet (which he had been very fond of shitposting on) exploded in popularity, which basically he viewed as letting the riffraff into the room.

I was vaguely aware of Yarvin under his Mencius Moldbug pseudonym very early on, because of my interest in PLT (Programming Language Theory), especially functional programming. I never paid him much attention, as his writings on PLT were pretty much garbage as far as I could tell, and his other writings were worse. He first came onto my radar in a big way during the LambdaConf incident, which ended with me never wanting to attend a LambdaConf, ever.