Wait, Milady Project … that’s the nazi offspring of the anime suicide cult based on Lain that lead to a teenage boy taking his own life because some bozo on 4chan told him he will reincarnate in a magical dream world.

First of all straight up telling an employee that we don’t like your cancer so we’re letting you go is just unfathomable, those people are already living in an Ancapistan of their own mind.

Employees objected to the imagery as well. Board member and Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang wrote that she “did not support applying the Milady aesthetic to a 1000-year vision mandate.” Mr. Buterin’s answer was that “the controversialness of those aesthetics is itself part of the point.”

What exactly is the point, Vitalik, would you please spell it out for the rest of us plebs?

Like it’s either making sure the company culture is compatible with freeze-peach neoreaction because you are planning to do, or have done and it’s about to be revealed, unhinged shit, or you’re just grooming people into learned helplessness because cult bullshit in the workplace these days gets you trillion dollar valuations.

Or maybe you are twelve and still think the vaunted third way/The Greater Good is 4chan coded libertarianism.

Looking at the slop images does have a few additional sneerable points. The chapter 2 header includes the phrase “growing crops with plant electrolytes” which is too on the nose not to be an idiocracy reference, right?

But I’m glad to hear that Vitalik Buterin is committed to giving Elon some competition in the race to see which billionaire can furthest disappear up their own ass before reality imposes consequences.