Hey what’s up how’s it goin? I’ve got a big announcement, which is that I’ve started a NEW THING, a sort of blog/newsletter thing on Ghost that I call BROTOPIANS. It’s about, well, brotopians, which is my name for a new species of techbro with utopian dreams, which tend to be pretty dystopian for the rest of us.
Basically, I’ve found a new breed of terrible men to make fun of.
The new blog/newsletter will cover said brotopians, their wild dreams of perfect lives and perfect worlds (for them anyway) and the regular squashing of these dreams by reality. I will talk about everything from seasteading and failed charter cities to the weird diets of life-extensionists.
I will talk about Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism and why they are not at all the same thing. We’ll do peptide raves. I will explore why pretty much all of these techie utopians tend to be men, though that may become obvious after reading a post or two.
The first post is up — it’s kind of an intro thing — so go check it out!
–David
Oooh, this could be interesting!
Why is guest commenting turned off there? It looks like it requires a login.
Why not just write more post here instead of starting another site?
Can you do a deep dive into Clavicular and the looksmaxxers community?
Also, even viewing the comments requires whitelisting a third-party script, at some site called jsdelivr. The name of that site implies it exists to host script files, which means whitelisting it will whitelist any script anyone uses them to host, including malicious scripts a bad actor might host there and then link from malicious or compromised web sites. Thus whitelisting this site is a security risk — having lots of sites host scripts at a single common domain defeats security based on whitelisting only trusted domains. It is far better for end-user security to host scripts locally, or to at least limit use of third-party scripts to specific, dedicated-purpose libraries (like JQuery) whose domains host only those specific scripts rather than arbitrary, user-submitted scripts some percentage of which are sure to be malicious.
As things stand, if I don’t whitelist jsdelivr I can’t read comments at Brotopians (not that there are many); and if I do I open myself up to being attacked at some other site if that site is compromised and invokes a malicious script that is separately hosted at jsdelivr, even if I don’t trust that site itself.