The WYDNA Group is a research collective consisting of Kantbot and Edburg.
According to their Twitter bio, topics they're interested in are "Library Science, Mnemotechnics, Combinatorics, Marxism, Technometry, Architectonics, Sociology of Knowledge, Cornucopianism, [and] Parapolitics." In words comprehensible to normal people that means library science, memory aids, good teaching practice, Post-scarcity economics and conspiracy theories.
Ideological impact on Infrared
Kantbot has appeared as a guest[1] on the Infrared stream before and Haz has likewise appeared on a rare free Episode[2] of the Pseudodoxology Podcast Network. Around this period of public cooperation Haz stated that Kantbot's podcast is a very educational and worthwhile listen, though no pledges of total ideological overlap were made. Many ideological and analytic agreements were found anyways.
During this period of Infrared history the community on Twitter began picking up ideological concepts introduced to them by Kantbot, such as:
- Dinosaur denialism
- Abiotic Oil Theory
- XML Datamodel supremacy
In late 2022 Kantbot announced that as part of his boycott on uninteresting discourse he will block Mecha-Tankies and MAGA Communists to stop them from tagging him into their Twitter battles.
Responding to Kantbot's subtle rethorical posturing against recent ideological memes of the Infrared community Haz has declared him to be under malign influence of Leftoids who feed his ego in exchange for nominal allegiance. Open hostility has not been declared and is disencouraged, but Haz's official opinion is that Kantbot has developed an overly intellectual worldview that leads him into excessive arrogance about his ability to make perscriptions in the political domain and is overfeeding his ego by being in the possession of braincells among new leftist friends.
Research on XML
Kantbot is notable for being an advocate of investigation into XML Archeotechnology such as Topic Maps and meta-languages that would enable in-memory parsing of XML files[3], which would open up new frontiers of web development according to Kantbot's theory. The specific innovation that Kantbot is attempting to reconstruct or reinvent in this domain is a system of metadata organisation that completely collapses the "Document Object Model" into the framework of Topic Maps. The practical difference is that instead of parsing individual documents for encoded information the documents should have robust internal metadata structures, indexes and thesauri that provide adequate semantic markup for high search-engine precision within these documents so that the Topic Map can serve as a portal environment from which to begin searching for information in it's connected document.
Kantbot believes that because XSLT (through X-Fun) qualifies as a functional programming language it can completely replace Javascript and that it's use in combination with the inherent advantages of an XML Datamodel would result in a new and improved iteration of the Internet that is superior to Web 3.0.