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The Ethereum Foundation's new insane mandate includes a literal "seppuku licence"! Members are forced to sign or must leave Paired with Milady symbolism, whose founder stepped down for involvement in a suicide cult! Shocking & disturbing, ETH is now a weird & toxic religion 🧵 The founder of Milady, "Charlotte Fang," was caught participating in a suicide cult called "Systemspace" under another pseudonym called "Miya" Urging their followers to kill themselves with promises of reaching "paradise". Allegedly even succeeding with a 17-year-old boy in Canada... Miya’s posts also included extreme racist, homophobic, antisemitic, & misogynistic content, plus pro-anorexia (“pro-ana”) material that allegedly involved grooming or encouraging self-harm among young followers This is what caused Fang to consequently apologize & step down from the Milady maker project team! That is why having the EF explicitly support this Milady symbolism in their mandate/constitution is, to say the least, frightening. What makes it far worse is that the suicide cult overtones are there, too. It honestly makes me feel deeply shocked & disturbed So strange that it is hard to believe, but there it is, in the mandate for all to see. They will pass it off as a joke or satire, but this is not okay, especially not for the EF! That an organization like the EF could even release a document like this shows how unbelievably out of touch they are. Creating a culture only suited to super niche & toxic internet communities instead of something suitable for global adoption The EF & Vitalik are also pumping up the Milady NFT project by doing this, which is somehow the least worst thing about all of this... This crosses the line so far that it is worse than what the BTC maxis have ever done in terms of religious-type behavior. As such extremes usually only occurred on the fringes What is unprecedented is the degree of insanity we are witnessing at such a massive scale. The EF is forcing its employees to sign a literal "source seppuku licence" (a literal suicide pact) pledging their "Ethereum alignment" or get fired! Unbelievable, weird & scary stuff That is what happens without on-chain governance. Centralized control is maintained by turning it into a cult to enforce cohesion & "resiliance" from external forces We can understand the appeal, but ultimately it is a losing strategy. True resilience comes from good governance. Extremist cults cloud rational thinking & ultimately good decision making There is much more to unpack from this latest mandate, as it is anti-growth, anti-adoption, anti-competition & anti-value Completely going back on ETH's recent pivot, which promised a more pragmatic approach. We instead just took an extreme left turn into weird, religious & cult-like thinking Like a proper cult, it is perfect & can never be changed as the supreme leader states: "Our Mandate is written for a thousand-year horizon ... we do not expect any material compromise within our lifetimes" I was going to write a longer article about what this pivot represents for ETH in more material terms & still will. The suicide pact within the document was just too weird for me not to cover first, as maybe I need you all to tell me I am hallucinating or something... Yet there it is, in the EF's own foundational document for the next millennium, I even attached the screenshot of the "seppuku licence", making it undeniable:

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