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'''Curtis Yarvin''' is an American political theorist and computer scientist. He is best know for his far-right, racist<ref>https://medium.com/@charles_91491/analysis-on-the-dark-enlightenment-and-of-curtis-yarvin-mencius-moldbug-160c6151366a</ref> political writings originally published under the pseudonym "Mencius Moldbug," and for originating Urbit, an decentralized personal server platform based on functional programming in a peer-to-peer network.
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'''Curtis Yarvin''' is a blogger and computer scientist. He is best know for his far-right, racist<ref>https://medium.com/@charles_91491/analysis-on-the-dark-enlightenment-and-of-curtis-yarvin-mencius-moldbug-160c6151366a</ref> political writings originally published under the pseudonym "Mencius Moldbug."
  
Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for [[Brown]] from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem<ref>https://graymirror.substack.com/p/brown</ref> stating that "No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl." Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin's participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of "touching" his performance.
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Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for [[Brown]] from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem<ref>https://graymirror.substack.com/p/brown</ref> stating that "No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl." Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin's participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of "touching" his performance. He was known for "jerk[ing] spasmodically" when buzzing, which his teammates at Brown dubbed "yarvinating".<ref>https://bsky.app/profile/jonpennington.bsky.social/post/3l6lqlyy2lr2z</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 22:38, 18 June 2025

Curtis Yarvin is a blogger and computer scientist. He is best know for his far-right, racist[1] political writings originally published under the pseudonym "Mencius Moldbug."

Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for Brown from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem[2] stating that "No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl." Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin's participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of "touching" his performance. He was known for "jerk[ing] spasmodically" when buzzing, which his teammates at Brown dubbed "yarvinating".[3]

  1. Jump up https://medium.com/@charles_91491/analysis-on-the-dark-enlightenment-and-of-curtis-yarvin-mencius-moldbug-160c6151366a
  2. Jump up https://graymirror.substack.com/p/brown
  3. Jump up https://bsky.app/profile/jonpennington.bsky.social/post/3l6lqlyy2lr2z