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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
@stevestreza Herd behaviour. FOMO. Utter stupidity.
@stevestreza I despair at what it will take to finally get people to acknowledge that white supremacy is a VERY COMMON THING for white people to genuinely like.
Which pretty handily explains why it keeps getting funded.
@stevestreza What do you people think money laundering is
@stevestreza definitely, 100% more going on. Data harvesting and ads will likely be a big part of it.
@stevestreza in their press release they emphasize agentic AI. So basically they want to be in on the ground floor of "The Linux for AI". FOMO meets fascism. The participation of the author of OpenClaw is noteworthy in this respect.
Just as Russian oligarchs laundered their looted national treasury via real estate, with the full cooperation of the West's financial services....
... petrostate despots & oil oligarchs are laundering their looted PIF's and national treasuries via Silicon Valley, again with the full cooperation of the West's financial services.
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500
https://www.newsweek.com/photo-elon-musk-jared-kushner-world-cup-draws-criticism-speculation-1768005
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
@404mediaco@mastodon.social here is your next project. #404media
@stevestreza The only possibly good thing to come out of this is it's providing a lot of names for lists of who is so evil that they must be avoided at all costs.
@stevestreza it could be as simple as it looks; white supremacists are publicly rewarding the behaviour they want to see more of, for the reason that they want to see more of it.
@stevestreza @nixCraft I have to hope that @404mediaco is on this already. 🤞
@stevestreza Let's bring the scurrying-insect traffic into the light!
@stevestreza i have a hypothesis: the foundation is going to distribute funds to other projects and now all these companies are going to suspend their other programs to donate to open source (like Digital Ocean did recently) and just hand over all their open source $$$ to DHH and then he gets to gatekeep who gets it.
@stevestreza There was this recent discussion about #Omarchy and the #Omacon foundation donations:
https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117191718220401381
From me:
https://chaos.social/@frumble/117196596211676170
A thread from me: https://chaos.social/@frumble/117176445350575164
@stevestreza There was this recent discussion about #Omarchy and the #Omacon foundation donations:
https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117191718220401381
From me:
https://chaos.social/@frumble/117196596211676170
A thread from me: https://chaos.social/@frumble/117176445350575164
You're kidding right? It's the fascism.
@stevestreza @lisamelton their morals probably align with omarchy’s owner/whatever-title-ha-has?
@stevestreza @Gargron @nixCraft I think you’re underestimating how little people pay attention to most Linux projects and how much press DHH has gotten over this one. I don’t think it’s too dissimilar from why the best music and film is never the most popular.
@stevestreza Omarchy looks to me like a marketing vehicle. Putting money in it and your name on it is like putting your logo on an F1 team or football club.
I know next to nothing about Omarchy. But if it can lure devs away from Apple (or MS) and onto Linux that would be cool.
@stevestreza Maybe trying to seed another Canonical type business? Back in the 00s that was styled more like a community project even as Shuttleworth was ploughing money into a start-up. But then from what I have seen of Omarchy I am not sure how it's design is well suited to that.
tech journalism is arguably the most corrupted subfield of journalism given its target audience is either addicted to tech, financially strapped to it, or both
@stevestreza that is what I find curious too. Why do much and why now all at the same time?
@stevestreza legitimately do not understand what advantages omarchy has over just installing pi on fedora that warrants 13 mil
@stevestreza Omarchy is great and calling DHH a white supremacist cheapens the word
@danger__dan https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 Defend his words then.
@stevestreza seems pretty reasonable to me?
It might not be super obvious, but:
> In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third
But the Wikipedia article he links to says over two thirds were born in the UK. So instead, when he says "about a third", he's likely referring to the table that lists that number for "white British" inhabitants.
So he's not worried about culture, or behaviour. It's about skin colour.
> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.
For context, many of the Romani people are citizens. Where do you deport native citizens?
@danger__dan So you're just a troll then.
@stevestreza But it's still unlikely to make any money. Still feels like there's a deeper scam involved.
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OMG the cope amongst the nazi left is hilarious.