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What's up with FUTO? (drewdevault.com)
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[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry but this person is treating grapheneos' attacks on other groups as legitimate which throws the entire article into question. If they are happy to provide a platform for graphene's founder's paranoid conspiracies I can't trust the content.

Seems clear there's some questionable shit going on, but the only evidence presented is two YouTube videos which isn't actually a lot. I wouldn't be surprised based on this to hear there are deeper links, but this article is written by someone who thinks tweets and YouTube comments are evidence.

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[-] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

I'll take a look at the interviews later tonight.

A few minor items stuck out as a bit disingenuous to me:

The donation page that FUTO used includes this explanation: “This offer is for individuals, and may be available to small organizations on request. Commercial entities wishing to be listed as sponsors should inquire by email.” It’s pretty clear that there are special instructions for institutional donors who wish to receive musl’s endorsement as thanks for their contribution.

It DOES say that, but literally only for the "monthly contribution > 150 section. For a one time grant of 1000 dollars, it doesn't appear to say anything.

FUTO appears to list efforts it has donated to (and use their name/logo), under the title, "Our sponsored grant programs". Which to me seems more of a semantic argument of whether they can say they've donated to something or not.

The inclusion of a logo without permission is a good critique, nonetheless. Likewise, if they are lying about donating to some of these projects, that is a problem.

  • The author makes a point of complaining about a video posted to odysee. There are not many great options for posting videos outside of Youtube. That FUTO would post videos to multiple other youtube alternatives, including odysee and peertube does not seem like a surprise to me. Not saying anything about the video though, until I've sat and watched.
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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Fuch!!!!! Are they going to see my immich face detected photos to the government for the "final solution" march to the camps and the human powered ovens?

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[-] Tencho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wait is Louis still attached to the project? I thought he left to focus on a new company.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Multiple people have said that, yeah. But they also said that he did not particularly distance himself from the project, which is definitely something I would do, if I found out about this kind of backing.

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[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Ugh, now I feel gross. Time to find a new YouTube app.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Yarvin has proclaimed that black people are genetically predisposed to a lower IQ than white people

The second part of that is true, because the IQ test is unreliable. That's why its banned in California schools for POC

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That statement only has one part. Could you clarify what you mean here? I'm not sure I understand.

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[-] myszka@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Wait so FUTO is authored by the guy who started all this clippy movement (Louis Rossmann)?

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