Thread by @kenmurrayx4

Curtis Yarvin:

"In 2002, Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform as a decentralized network of personal servers. In 2013 he co-founded the SF-based company Tlön Corp to build out Urbit further with funding from Peter Thiel's.. Founders Fund."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Ya…

"Yarvin departed Tlon in 2019. Lehman said that the "hardest part" of his work at Tlon had been to distance Urbit from Yarvin."

"In 2022, the main software in an Urbit installation was a "bare-bones" text-based message board."

"Pax’s girlfriend, ~mallus, is sitting with a family from Indiana who tells me they use Urbit to send updates from their farm, like when the ducks lay eggs."
astra-mag.com/articles/my-we…

"Yarvin himself has said that Urbit is written in Martian code; Assembly lore has it that it was delivered to him by aliens while he was on an acid in the Mojave Desert."

Yarvin the blogger:

"In 2007, Yarvin began the blog Unqualified Reservations to promote his political vision. In an early blog post, he adapted a phrase from the movie The Matrix, repurposing "red pill" to mean a shattering of progressive illusions."

Yarvin the Monarchist:

"Most of his monologue—neither Konstantin Kisin nor Francis Foster gets much of a word in—is.. earnest, pretentious and boring."

"Yarvin fancies himself a man of ideas. Oh my, he does."
theideaslab.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvi…