Big news in my inbox today from the Urbit Newsletter: Curtis Yarvin has returned to the project. Apparently this happened in late August. This is pretty shocking news and will probably be a make-or-break moment for the project.
For some context on how wacky this is:
> Lehman said that the "hardest part" of his work at Tlon had been to distance Urbit from Yarvin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit#Politics_and_controversy
Him starting the project has always cast a shadow, but ostensibly it could be ignored after he left a leadership role. Now there will be a strong social cost with associating with Urbit at all.
@makeworld I never understood how people could think that him "leaving a leadership role" made the project "okay". He still had stake in the technical layers and had a huge influence on the culture. It felt a bit too optimistic to me. I find this development unsurprising.
