On a Friday in March, employees at an international technology foundation received a 38-page document outlining leadership’s vision for the foundation for the next 1,000 years.

I own no crypto and am generally not a fan for reasons, but I can’t help but feel something is off, in this story,

Am I wrong?

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Authors, maintainers, editors and distributors of “this software” would pledge to ensure the software remained free and publicly accessible, and would also vow to “take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license,” the illustration read. It was labeled “Source Seppuku License,” an apparent reference to a traditional Japanese ritual suicide.

    lol can they be less lame?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Not wrong. Crypto, AI culture in silicon valley and its offshoots has long had weird cult-like at the top. The weirdness flows downstream from there.