<![CDATA[for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter"]]>for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/519c9b84-104a-4d90-94fe-0a6fb81f3bab/for-those-tracking-john-carmack-s-descent-into-right-wing-total-moral-disorientation-he-s-now-at-palmer-luckey-should-buy-wired-and-do-to-it-what-elon-musk-did-to-twitterRSS for NodeThu, 09 Apr 2026 00:37:40 GMTMon, 06 Apr 2026 03:59:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:09:11 GMT]]>@jplebreton

That's some Epstein Island level fash behavior

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/dianea/statuses/116358863369547209https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/dianea/statuses/116358863369547209Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:09:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:07:53 GMT]]>@jplebreton
"Technological Triumphalism" Yeeah like there was not a lot of cautionary tales about going blindly all-in into something, all praises and blind to faults.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/SharkAttak/statuses/116358858223357850https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/SharkAttak/statuses/116358858223357850Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:07:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:22:07 GMT]]>@jplebreton f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/pawv/statuses/116358678288774907https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/pawv/statuses/116358678288774907Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:22:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:31:58 GMT]]>@jplebreton he came up during the β€œend of history” period when deferring to nihilism and not taking a side was possible. His new position is a direct outcome of class interests formed during that era.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/tnorinder/statuses/116358245178962272https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/tnorinder/statuses/116358245178962272Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:31:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:03 GMT]]>@jplebreton Had to look him up. Sent to juvie at 14 for psych eval after master-minding a theft of taxpayer-funded computers supplied for students. Yeah, that does start to suggest some kind of pathology, even at that age.

Made his name and fortune on various v-game tech advances, and good for him. That doesn't suggest he should be running society, though.

There seems to be a rather childish edit war on his vaguely hagiographic WP article, and I strongly suspect he's involved in it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116358135385106154https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116358135385106154Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:22 GMT]]>@WesternInfidels right yeah, capital has this vast cultural substrate out there that's ready to absorb kids who grow STEM-affine brains and funnel them towards becoming proudly selfish, politically oblivious and incurious, empathy-free young adults, at which point they're making good enough money that they see that system as the best possible outcome for humanity, no matter how much evidence piles up to the contrary as history unfolds.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/116358113063279110https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/116358113063279110Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:32 GMT]]>@trobador oh i know exactly where that leads πŸ˜‘

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/116358094007070320https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/116358094007070320Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:49 GMT]]>@jplebreton Carmack was a literal juvenile delinquent, id software was birthed from larceny, and what self-awareness Carmack displayed came well into adulthood. Then he married a Randroid. He's long been a poster child for "Engineer's Disease," telling himself "I'm logical about software development, so obviously all my opinions and biases are also based on logic."

He may be especially vulnerable to the charms of the hermetically-sealed thought-bubble of TESCREAL, but the real problem is the system that shuttles vulnerable people into that thought-bubble.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/WesternInfidels/statuses/116358067615185260https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/WesternInfidels/statuses/116358067615185260Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:31:33 GMT]]>@jplebreton If you are up for a challenge: try to name just one self-identified libertarian tech millionaire who has not yet adopted fascism

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/trobador/statuses/116358007613524297https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/trobador/statuses/116358007613524297Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:31:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:42:40 GMT]]>@floooh @morten_skaaning @pythno @jplebreton The book setting is basically everything that's wrong with the US, but turned up to 11. I wrote about it shortly some time ago, here's the translation.

For context, you might have heard who Korwin is from the EU parliament already: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39152562

The tubeworms quote is a reference to his direct-to-meme, 100% serious rant about "social parasites who do nothing" or something like that.

The movie is https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/wolfpld/statuses/116357815385167779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/wolfpld/statuses/116357815385167779Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:42:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:21:51 GMT]]>@morten_skaaning @wolfpld @pythno @jplebreton Snow Crash's Metaverse is pretty much exactly how you imagine it, a virtual space where you log into as an avatar. The interesting part is rather how the "remains" of the US is depicted.

Also important to know when 'judging' the quality of the book: it was supposed to be a comic project, which was then "salvaged" into a novel. Explains a lot of the writing style πŸ˜‰

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/floooh/statuses/116357733495804317https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/floooh/statuses/116357733495804317Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:21:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:14:43 GMT]]>@wolfpld @pythno @jplebreton for being written in 1992 Snow Crash nailed the "trajectory" of the US as a future failed state pretty well though. I remember that when I read it first (around 2005 maybe?) that I found that aspect of the story quite unbelievable. In the last decade or so it got a lot more believable.

But yeah, shame about Carmack.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/floooh/statuses/116357705481973571https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/floooh/statuses/116357705481973571Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:14:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:14:20 GMT]]>@wolfpld @pythno @jplebreton there is "Metaverse" as whatever the actual product was at Facebook. And "Metaverse" as a fiction in a book. I haven't read Snow Crash, so I took it to vaguely mean "cyberspace". I take it the Metaverse in Snow Crash has bad connotations?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/morten_skaaning/statuses/116357703950482846https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/morten_skaaning/statuses/116357703950482846Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:14:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:52:51 GMT]]>@jplebreton beatifully written.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.jacobwhite.us/users/me/statuses/116357619514708213https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.jacobwhite.us/users/me/statuses/116357619514708213Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:52:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:43:00 GMT]]>@jplebreton I've only spoken to the guy once, about 25 years ago -- he gave me advice on how to deal with texture priorities in an OpenGL driver I was writing for BeOS (his advice: ignore it).

Rather than wealth itself, or an intrinsic personality flaw, I think the greater influence leading him down this dark path was simply *being* at Facebook, five days a week, around all those other people who see nothing wrong with what they're doing at Facebook.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ewhac/statuses/116357580720450736https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ewhac/statuses/116357580720450736Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:43:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:48:45 GMT]]>@jplebreton I'm sad. Carmack is my favorite game developer

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://shelter.moe/users/Fangh/statuses/116357367409756916https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://shelter.moe/users/Fangh/statuses/116357367409756916Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:48:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:43:09 GMT]]>@jplebreton Surely, he's being sarcastic here, right? ... Right?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://peculiar.florist/notes/akqmm263aykj9jo4https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://peculiar.florist/notes/akqmm263aykj9jo4Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:43:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:38:30 GMT]]>@jplebreton I always knew Carmack was going to snap. Some types of nerd should NOT be allowed contact with the real world.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/megatronicthronbanks/statuses/116357327126279928https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/megatronicthronbanks/statuses/116357327126279928Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:38:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:21:02 GMT]]>@jplebreton Him starting to work at Oculus and not leaving after the umpteenth Facebook scandal was a signal already.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://genart.social/users/aerique/statuses/116357258451582631https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://genart.social/users/aerique/statuses/116357258451582631Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:21:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:18:38 GMT]]>@jplebreton He's done a real Carmack reverse since working on Wolfenstein.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/chrisp/statuses/116357249014570876https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/chrisp/statuses/116357249014570876Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:18:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:52:13 GMT]]>@floe @jplebreton Another reason billionaires should not exist - for the sake of the billionaires too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/datarama/statuses/116357145129414070https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/datarama/statuses/116357145129414070Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:52:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:50:00 GMT]]>@jplebreton Sigh, another datapoint in the list of "people who may have been decent once and got turned into assholes by too much money". πŸ™„

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/floe/statuses/116357136396199445https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/floe/statuses/116357136396199445Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:50:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:35:30 GMT]]>@pythno @jplebreton Hm? From what I recall, he was very fond of the Snow Crash book, from where the term sources?

I (tried to) read it, and jeez, the themes in that book are *ugly*. Another puzzle piece that fits, though.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/wolfpld/statuses/116357079396255629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/wolfpld/statuses/116357079396255629Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:35:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter" on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:21:46 GMT]]>@vampiress @jplebreton I agree. I stopped having heroes a long, long time ago. There are still people I admire, of course. The distinction, I think, between having a hero and admiring someone is whether or not it becomes an attack on one's own identity to realize that the person in question is flawed (perhaps irredeemably so). It's painful to lose a hero.

I admired Noam Chomsky for many years. Then I found out that he not only remained friends with Epstein, but also advised him and thought he was a "victim of the press" after it became public knowledge that Epstein was a serial rapist. Someone with so spectacularly bad moral judgment is not a person I can admire, so I stopped admiring him. This wasn't painful at all.

(There are few people left in the tech / software sphere I admire.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/datarama/statuses/116357025416526157https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/datarama/statuses/116357025416526157Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:21:46 GMT