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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Someone made a pretty good, albeit very cautiously, almost concern-trollisly written blog post about recent internet drama Odin v. Wikipedia. Surprise: the conclusion is that Odin is fashTech. (warning, the blog appears to be LLM-designed. I do not believe the actual text is LLM-written but you can never be sure with that kind of writing style)
https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
I have been looking into the mentioned clique for some time now and I share the concerns of the author. It does not take a lot of digging to learn that, for them, an interest in low level performance goes hand in with a far right worldview. Apparently it is where you end up if you are an "indepenent thinker". Two examples:
Wow that readinglist has an interesting fantasy series, HP gateway drug to fascism confirmed.
(It also is just a boring list)
evola, peterson, rothbard and moldbug on the reading list sure is something
also who the fuck is "bronze age pervert"
e: right, life was slightly better before I looked that up
welcome to the abyss, it sucks here
I like that there's a Gamache detective novel with that exact title and smile a little imagining some freshman edge lord accidentally buying it instead of Murray.
...so what's open-source software, then?
Oof, yeah. I kinda like the side-notes, but the instances where multiple embedded tweets were side-by-side AND simultaneously interspersed with side-notes were so visually confusing that I quit skimming the article.