Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

lol was this Pete Campbell's place

vince kartheiser def the weirdest person on that show

Yeah, that guy. Mr. Alexis Bledel

wasn’t that house pretty small for a named actor guy? seemed respectable

I'm unwilling to put in effort to find a link that's not the Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712131/Mad-Men-star-sells-cleverly-designed-tiny-bungalow-800-000-including-bed-pulled-ceiling-fire-pit-hidden-inside-coffee-table.html

Super nice, IMO.

The bed pulling into the ceiling isn't a dumb idea at all, if you can make it happen, beats a Murphy bed taking up an entire wall. Hydraulics or whatever are unnecessary (though let's be real about the energy cost of a 10 second raise/lower cycle - if you're living in few square feet you're more than making up for that energy).

fewer square feet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERvx3A1UUAAPQfP?format=jpg&name=small

i like that bungalow (except for the red curtain). I like that the bed is on a pulley system.

Although this is all reminding me of that earthquake proof bed (coffin).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQwB0uCZkc

A panic bed.

I give myself three nights before I have permanent brain damage from hitting my head on the beam.

Because I have these thoughts that seem really interesting, but they're not really good for real life.'

very relatable, Vince

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we're just playing mad libs with these concepts now, right?

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— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) April 4, 2020

is that sincere? jesus.

lololol she went and edited it

quora is both the best and worst site
best when idiots completely show their ass imo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYez1BSWkAceMAh?format=png&name=large

kinda chill but mostly lol

I think that's really an app for personal injury lawyers

oof

I keep seeing ads for this service called Block Renovation, which claims it is the "Amazon Prime of renovation" but seems more like, idk, the grubhub of renovation or something? I.e. it sort of pointlessly inserts itself between you and contractors to take advantage of the growing tendency of people to arbitrarily trust things more if there is some kind of tech intermediary.

Like they claim to also provide "design services" but AFICT all that means is you get a more generic bathroom by limiting your options to theirs, yet still pay a premium over what you would just pay a contractor. And then they work with contractor "partners" to do the renovation.

The audio chat had spiraled wildly out of control from a broader conversation earlier in the call about the state of journalism and what VCs should do to receive better coverage. Srinivasan, formerly a general partner at Andreesen Horowitz, claimed that "the entire tech press was complicit in covering up the threat of COVID-19," and claimed that relying on the press is "outsourcing your information supply chain to folks who are disaligned with you," comparable to the United States having outsourced its medical supply chain. He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism than "the East Coast model of 'Respect my authori-tay.'"

according to a friend of mine, his creepy behavior toward women online extends to offline as well

i wonder if he would refer to white supremacy as "racial disalignment"?

The app was valued at $100 million after a reported $12 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, and requires an invite to join.

That's a lot of money for "Zoom with no video"

$12M at $100M valuation is like a Friday afternoon scratch ticket for AH, barely merits an all-staff email probably.

Ba1aji S. 5rinivasan attended Stanford where he was awarded a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engin33ring, and Bioinformatics. He has taught statistics, data mining, and computational biology at Stanford University.

...

He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism

apparently he's seen South Park, tho

wah wah I’m a big baby who can’t take it when people cover my company critically

this all reminds me of the villainizing of john carreyrou at theranos because he dared to write about how their company was a sham, when their company was, in fact, a sham

the endgame is in sight: https://jalopnik.com/this-blowjob-machine-designed-for-teslas-on-autopilot-i-1844296987

"The San Francisco-based startup aims to upgrade the American trailer park, making it a network of intentional communities for the remote-working, previously urban professionals."https://t.co/JBjPczTK3n

— Cory Weinberg (@coryweinberg) July 21, 2020

love that tech is literally gentrifying poverty now

I have to admit that aside from the cringey techno-utopianness of that, I find the concept sort of fascinating. Burning Man meets We Work meets Mad Max meets Gummo

spaghetti in the bath tub, but it's a really good sauce

i live in an actual trailer park and your fascination can go fuck itself :) xp

not having a home. so sexy

tbc not in a "that sounds romantic and fun" sort of way, more like "Is this really something that young people are going to do/is this the marketing scheme for our new dark future" sort of way.

alright fair, i'm just totally repulsed by same

1000 a month, cool cool

rv parks are literally one of the last places poor people can live especially in the western us, where the hell are they supposed to go.

Does this displace other RV parks?

I live in an RV park. And guess what, I used to live in a van. And I am also horrified by this development.

https://media.giphy.com/media/nS7pUeMQq7urm/giphy.gif

I kinda wanna look up what "communal space in San Francisco" this dude lives in ...

lolllll he lives at ******, owned by ******** who made a bunch of tech money and bought a huge old Victorian

is this the place that got called out by SF Planning for code violations because it was group housing and not a single family residence?

feel free to dm via ilx

just sent to u

lol -- the place i was thinking of was in Hayes Valley but had a similar name

one thing that's "interesting" about these types of tech things is the unintended consequences as far as legal regulations that end up affecting the less privileged whose "lifestyles" the tech startups want to re-invent. So, not only do you get the gentrification (which is the direct consequence), you end up with government agencies, like planning departments and building departments and so forth making rules in reaction to the tech things that end up screwing other people. And there's also an arrogance on the part of the tech people that somehow don't see how what they are doing is something that formally / structurally already exists ... just not for people like them.