• @200fifty@awful.systems
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    255 months ago

    Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was “incompatible” with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

    Wait, run that second one by me again

    • deborah
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      5 months ago

      Tired: bragging about how you always knew the true face of evil because you’re just more tuned in than other folks.

      Wired: Sharing valuable, documented, normie news stories about how crypto is tied into crime and grossness at every level.

      Inspired: Mocking an extreme-fasting, psychedelic-chugging weirdo for giving millions to a fascist fan of a dead guy who believed there’s aborted fetal material in pepsi and who was an AIDS and Covid denier who died of, shock, Covid.

  • David GerardOPM
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    175 months ago

    btw, congrats to BI on another immaculate totally-not-nazi dox, which has many totally-not-nazis from bitcoinland up in arms. Why, anyone who spends their time being extremely into batshit insane Nazis and writing about how they think their social network needs Nazis could be doxxed - anyone!

  • funbreaker
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    55 months ago

    Nostr (without Zaps) is a cool technology but everyone around it has very interesting ideas. I may be biased because I liked the predecessor tech, Secure Scuttlebutt before that sunk into the depths.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    15 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In his quest to support alternative social-media platforms, Twitter’s cofounder Jack Dorsey unwittingly funded a developer who’s a follower of a Brazilian fascist, according to archived webpages and business records.

    The funding, which supported the development of the decentralized social-media protocol Nostr, comes as Silicon Valley’s rightward political drift has become more apparent and as some in tech’s elite push back against what they perceive as overreach in censorship and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

    Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was “incompatible” with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

    As Fiatjaf, Parra told Forbes that his political views were shaped by the laissez-faire Austrian school of economics and his entrepreneurial parents’ negative experiences with government regulation in Brazil.

    Parra was frustrated by what he saw as Twitter’s increasing censorship of users and wanted to build a decentralized protocol that would allow people to easily take their social-media profiles and followers to other networks if they disagreed with a platform’s content-moderation policies.

    On a podcast last year, Parra, as Fiatjaf, mused about the likelihood that “Nazis or racists or whatever” could see Nostr as a home for hate speech because the nature of the protocol means it has no centralized content moderation.


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