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There’s a well-worn playbook of using “apolitical” software as a means of building an audience for your politics. Like how Curtis Yarvin used Urbit to get keynote speaker slots at conferences. You *should* actually reject software in that context.

Amos Wenger@fasterthanli.me

Re: "Funding for Omarchy is good news for the Linux ecosystem overall" No it's not

business goose🪿

@goose.art

23 Aug

this is crazy to read bc for a while i thought urbit was a cool arcane tech thing like templeOS. had no clue about the guy behind it

Andrew Lilley Brinker

@alilleybrinker.com

Yeah it’s really unfortunate how well the maneuver has worked historically. Programmers like to imagine we can create “pure technology” spaces where politics aren’t allowed, but in fact it means we create places where politics are present but can never be named.

24/8/26, 12:34 am6 reposts22 likes

Andrew Lilley Brinker

@alilleybrinker.com

24 Aug

It’s a parallel problem to the tyranny of structurelessness: just as there’s no such thing as a structureless group (there are only groups with secret structure), there’s no such thing as a politics-free space (only a space with secret politics).