5 ms·

This post is still the best thing I read about Urbit: https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-why-urbit-matters/ https://www.popehat.co

This post is still the best thing I read about Urbit: https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-why-urbit-matters/ https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vul... (note: I haven't actually that much on Urbit)

tptacek 7y ago
I don’t know whether this matters, and I guess it probably doesn’t, but he was kicked off the Popehat blog not long after writing this, for virulent (and, since then, increasingly theatrical) racism.
- Thorrez 7y ago
  Was the racism on Popehat or elsewhere? The departure announcement post[1] seems at least somewhat amicable, since it contains an advertisement for Clark's new website. [1] https://www.popehat.com/2015/12/30/i-cant-see-what-my-future-has-in-store-maybe-i-will-be-no-more-but-i-move-forth-with-the-strength-of-a-condor-the-courage-of-a-warrior/ https://www.popehat.com/2015/12/30/i-cant-see-what-my-future...
  - user982 7y ago
    "I became increasingly unhappy that Clark was writing for the blog in 2015. That unhappiness was a result of a number of factors, including the content he wrote here, which I felt reflected badly on the blog and on me, both in terms of quality and content. I was concerned, for instance, that if my clients encountered the blog they would question whether I was hostile to them based upon their ethnicity or religion. I became embarrassed he was a co-blogger." https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/24/about-clark-being-purged-from-popehat/ https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/24/about-clark-being-purged-... The links to Clark's tweets in this post don't work because he since got kicked off of Twitter too.
  - tptacek 7y ago
    The relationship between Clark and Ken is decidedly not amicable.
- cjbprime 7y ago
  > he was kicked off At first I thought you were talking about Yarvin himself. It's a bad sign when someone left a project due to their virulent racism and you have to be like "wait, which one of the two people related to this story who did that are we talking about?".
  - tptacek 7y ago
    There’s a person on HN who built an overlay network called ZeroTier and whatever else there is to say about ZeroTier I feel like you can at least say that the most persuasive pieces of advocacy for it aren’t written by neo-Nazis or their adjacencies, and that is not something every overlay network can say.
deleted 7y ago
[deleted]

tptacek 7y ago

I don’t know whether this matters, and I guess it probably doesn’t, but he was kicked off the Popehat blog not long after writing this, for virulent (and, since then, increasingly theatrical) racism.

Thorrez 7y ago
Was the racism on Popehat or elsewhere? The departure announcement post[1] seems at least somewhat amicable, since it contains an advertisement for Clark's new website. [1] https://www.popehat.com/2015/12/30/i-cant-see-what-my-future-has-in-store-maybe-i-will-be-no-more-but-i-move-forth-with-the-strength-of-a-condor-the-courage-of-a-warrior/ https://www.popehat.com/2015/12/30/i-cant-see-what-my-future...
- user982 7y ago
  "I became increasingly unhappy that Clark was writing for the blog in 2015. That unhappiness was a result of a number of factors, including the content he wrote here, which I felt reflected badly on the blog and on me, both in terms of quality and content. I was concerned, for instance, that if my clients encountered the blog they would question whether I was hostile to them based upon their ethnicity or religion. I became embarrassed he was a co-blogger." https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/24/about-clark-being-purged-from-popehat/ https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/24/about-clark-being-purged-... The links to Clark's tweets in this post don't work because he since got kicked off of Twitter too.
- tptacek 7y ago
  The relationship between Clark and Ken is decidedly not amicable.
cjbprime 7y ago
> he was kicked off At first I thought you were talking about Yarvin himself. It's a bad sign when someone left a project due to their virulent racism and you have to be like "wait, which one of the two people related to this story who did that are we talking about?".
- tptacek 7y ago
  There’s a person on HN who built an overlay network called ZeroTier and whatever else there is to say about ZeroTier I feel like you can at least say that the most persuasive pieces of advocacy for it aren’t written by neo-Nazis or their adjacencies, and that is not something every overlay network can say.

deleted 7y ago

[deleted]