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A screenshot of a March 2016 story appearing on conservative blog Breitbart, about functional programming conference LambdaConf deciding to retain Curtis Yarvin as a speaker. The acronym “SJW” stands ...

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In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to ...

So, apparently, Steve Bannon appreciates Mencius Moldbug, leading neo-reactionary. I said what I had to say about Moldbug and his ilk four years ago, here. I flatter myself to think that I took him ...

Vox has a new article on Curtis Yarvin, a software engineer and far-right blogger who’s made friends with powerful supporters of former president Donald Trump, and it’s filled with horrifying ideas on ...

What does a bizarre project to reinvent software from the ground up have in common with 19 th-century reactionary political philosophy? That question has become the unlikely heart of a computing ...

Back in 2008, when Obama still symbolised hope and change, Yarvin was quietly uploading screeds under the alias Mencius Moldbug. His pièce de résistance? An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives—a ...

In the 2000s, Curtis Yarvin was a programmer with two projects. One was personal and turned him into a favorite philosopher of the alt-right: the blog Unqualified Reservations, which he started in ...