Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
开源领域的法西斯主义常态化：DHH 获赠 1200 万美元
I’m somebody who’s written rather extensively on generative AI ethics, and I feel there is a lot that is unethical about the current corporate climate and culture surrounding the technology. And when I write about LLMs and chatbots, I’m careful not to make judgments about the people using the end products—I don’t think you’re a bad person if you use ChatGPT or Claude, or whatever. 我曾就生成式人工智能伦理进行过广泛的写作，我认为当前围绕该技术的企业环境和文化中存在许多不道德之处。在撰写关于大语言模型（LLM）和聊天机器人的文章时，我非常谨慎，不会对使用这些最终产品的人做出评判——我不认为使用 ChatGPT、Claude 或其他类似工具的人就是坏人。
What I’m discussing today is different. There is no room for debate or argument, here—only hard, absolute lines in the sand. Much of the world has become far too complacent and complicit with people (and their companies) who proclaim and hold far-right, fascist ideology. These are not image boards residing in the fringe corners of an anonymous Internet made up of people who have slipped through the cracks. No, these are wealthy people in power who are blatant and shameless in their support for those who continuously beat the drum of bigotry, xenophobia, transphobia, and cynical accelerationist hatred. 我今天讨论的内容则完全不同。在这里，没有辩论或争论的空间，只有绝对的底线。世界很大程度上已经变得过于自满，并对那些宣扬和持有极右翼法西斯意识形态的人（及其公司）表现出纵容。这些人并非躲在匿名互联网边缘角落、被社会遗忘的边缘群体。相反，他们是掌握权力的富人，公然且无耻地支持那些不断鼓吹偏执、仇外、恐跨以及愤世嫉俗的加速主义仇恨的人。
Open source technology has become a culture safe for this rhetoric and ideology, with millions of dollars being invested to continue this status quo. You need to be made aware of this, and then you need to be vocal and take action. 开源技术已经成为这种言论和意识形态的温床，数百万美元的资金被投入以维持这种现状。你需要意识到这一点，并发出声音，采取行动。
DHH David Heinemeier Hansson is the most well-known figurehead here. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and a Shopify board member. In September 2025, DHH published “As I remember London”, mourning that London is “no longer full of native Brits”—a claim that redefines “native Brit” to mean “white.” DHH（David Heinemeier Hansson）是其中最知名的领军人物。他是 Ruby on Rails 的创建者、37signals 的首席技术官，也是 Shopify 的董事会成员。2025 年 9 月，DHH 发表了《正如我记忆中的伦敦》（As I remember London），哀叹伦敦“不再充满本土英国人”——这一说法将“本土英国人”重新定义为“白人”。
Developer Jake Lazaroff details how DHH describes a Tommy Robinson march as “heartwarming,” where speakers called for “remigration” (a euphemism for the ethnic cleansing of non-white residents) and one speaker demanded that countries “ban halal,” “ban mosques,” and “ban temples.” DHH invokes abuse scandals to bolster his white-nationalist rhetoric, framing non-white men as predators of “British girls,” while UK data shows no such racial skew. LibreNews reaches the same conclusion. 开发者 Jake Lazaroff 详细描述了 DHH 如何将一场 Tommy Robinson 的游行形容为“暖心”。在那场游行中，演讲者呼吁“重新移民”（这是对非白人居民进行种族清洗的委婉说法），还有演讲者要求各国“禁止清真”、“禁止清真寺”和“禁止寺庙”。DHH 利用虐待丑闻来支持他的白人民族主义言论，将非白人男性描绘成“英国女孩”的掠夺者，而英国的数据显示根本不存在这种种族偏见。LibreNews 也得出了同样的结论。
Developer Joel Drapper wrote how Ruby Central had lost a $250,000-a-year sponsorship from Sidekiq after giving DHH a speaking slot at RailsConf a few weeks later, leaving the nonprofit financially dependent on Shopify (where DHH sits on the board); Shopify then pushed Ruby Central to consolidate control rather than lose its funding. The Register and Heise both covered the fallout. 开发者 Joel Drapper 写道，在 RailsConf 为 DHH 提供演讲机会几周后，Ruby Central 失去了 Sidekiq 每年 25 万美元的赞助，这使得该非营利组织在财务上依赖于 Shopify（DHH 是其董事会成员）；随后，Shopify 推动 Ruby Central 加强控制，以避免失去资金。The Register 和 Heise 都报道了这一后续影响。
But none of this has cost DHH money—if anything, he’s only gained. A few weeks ago, DHH announced the Omacom Foundation to bankroll his Linux distribution, Omarchy, which is nothing more than a few vibecoded scripts on top of Arch Linux. There are twelve “Founding Patrons” pledging a million dollars apiece: Tobi Lütke (CEO of Shopify), Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe), Michael Dell (Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies), Jack Dorsey (Block Head and Chairman of Block), Matthew Prince (CEO of Cloudflare), Brendan Iribe (Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus), Jason Fried (CEO of 37signals), Drew Houston (cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox), Peter Steinberger (creator of OpenClaw), Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase), Yunjie Dai (cofounder of TapTap), and DHH himself. 但这一切并没有让 DHH 损失金钱——相反，他获益匪浅。几周前，DHH 宣布成立 Omacom 基金会，为其 Linux 发行版 Omarchy 提供资金，而该发行版不过是在 Arch Linux 之上运行的几个“氛围感”脚本。目前有 12 位“创始赞助人”每人承诺捐赠 100 万美元：Tobi Lütke（Shopify 首席执行官）、Patrick Collison（Stripe 首席执行官）、Michael Dell（戴尔科技董事长兼首席执行官）、Jack Dorsey（Block 负责人兼董事长）、Matthew Prince（Cloudflare 首席执行官）、Brendan Iribe（Sesame 和 Oculus 联合创始人）、Jason Fried（37signals 首席执行官）、Drew Houston（Dropbox 联合创始人兼联席首席执行官）、Peter Steinberger（OpenClaw 创建者）、Brian Armstrong（Coinbase 首席执行官）、Yunjie Dai（TapTap 联合创始人）以及 DHH 本人。
A dozen of the most powerful executives in tech looked at a man who wrote that a British march calling for the deportation of non-white citizens was “heartwarming,” and decided he was the person they wanted to hand a multimillion-dollar foundation to. 科技界十几位最有权势的高管看着一个声称“呼吁驱逐非白人公民的英国游行令人暖心”的人，决定将一个数百万美元的基金会交到他手中。
I should also mention that the same infrastructure companies bankrolling Omarchy and Ladybird are also the backbone of the ongoing violence of U.S. deportations. This includes Amazon’s AWS contracts powering ICE, Palantir building ICE’s case-management system, and the use of Salesforce’s tools. 我还必须提到，那些资助 Omarchy 和 Ladybird 的基础设施公司，同时也是美国正在进行的驱逐行动中暴力行为的支柱。这包括为美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）提供支持的亚马逊 AWS 合同、Palantir 为 ICE 构建的案件管理系统，以及 Salesforce 工具的使用。
“Apolitical” Andreas Kling, founder of the Ladybird browser project (itself an Omacom-adjacent beneficiary, sponsored by Cloudflare, FUTO, Shopify, 37signals, Proton, and JetBrains), built his project’s identity around refusing a documentation patch that would have made SerenityOS’s manuals gender-neutral, on the grounds that gender-neutral language was “personal politics” that didn’t belong in a technical project. “非政治化”的 Andreas Kling 是 Ladybird 浏览器项目的创始人（该项目本身是 Omacom 的相关受益者，由 Cloudflare、FUTO、Shopify、37signals、Proton 和 JetBrains 赞助）。他将项目定位建立在拒绝一个文档补丁之上，该补丁本可以让 SerenityOS 的手册实现性别中立，理由是性别中立语言属于“个人政治”，不应出现在技术项目中。
Blogger Kelson Vibber wrote how that became Ladybird’s official contributing guidelines, which now bar “discussions on societal politics”—a policy treating the mere existence of trans contributors as more “political” than excluding them. 博主 Kelson Vibber 写道，这如何成为了 Ladybird 的官方贡献指南，该指南现在禁止“讨论社会政治”——这一政策将跨性别贡献者的存在本身视为比排斥他们更“政治化”的行为。
In 2026, Kling posted in support of Charlie Kirk after Kirk’s assassination and, per discussion on Lobsters, bristled at being called a fascist for it—a reaction hard to square with “apolitical,” since Kirk was a movement figure who, per his own Wikipedia entry, promoted the “white genocide” conspiracy theory and criticized the Civil Rights Act. 2026 年，Kling 在 Charlie Kirk 遇刺后发文表示支持，据 Lobsters 上的讨论，当他因此被称为法西斯时感到愤怒——这种反应很难与“非政治化”相符，因为 Kirk 是一位运动人物，根据他自己的维基百科条目，他曾宣扬“白人种族灭绝”阴谋论并批评《民权法案》。
Vaxry, the developer behind the Hyprland Wayland compositor (another Omacom-funded project), was banned in 2024 by Freedesktop.org’s Code of Conduct team over a pattern of the Hyprland Discord enabling harassment of trans community members, including an incident where moderators changed a trans user’s display name to strip their pronouns. Vaxry’s own public response framed the ban as ideological overreach by “social justice warriors,” while the Freedesktop side, recounted at LibreNews, describes over a year of private attempts to get him to address the toxicity before going public. Hyprland’s contributing guidelines now ban “political” speech too. Hyprland Wayland 合成器（另一个由 Omacom 资助的项目）背后的开发者 Vaxry，在 2024 年被 Freedesktop.org 的行为准则团队封禁，原因是他旗下的 Hyprland Discord 频道长期纵容对跨性别社区成员的骚扰，其中包括管理员修改跨性别用户显示名称以删除其代词的事件。Vaxry 本人的公开回应将此次封禁描述为“社会正义战士”的意识形态越权，而据 LibreNews 报道，Freedesktop 方面则描述了在公开处理之前，他们曾进行了一年多的私下尝试，试图让他解决这种有毒环境。Hyprland 的贡献指南现在也禁止了“政治”言论。