These days, Yarvin is best known as the founder of Urbit, a startup tech company providing, in its own words, “a secure peer-to-peer network of personal servers, built on a clean-slate system software stack.”11 Or, perhaps more accurately, he’s best known for the astonishing levels of protest that take place whenever a tech conference invites him to speak, generally based on the accusation that he believes in reinstituting slavery and thinks that black people make especially good slaves.12 The reason for this is relatively simple: he believes in reinstituting slavery and thinks that black
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