Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

Marx was a dope ass showrunner

seize the means of production: lights, camera, and direct action baby

"founder" is such a shitty word - way too grandiose

victory is life

New frontiers in the ignorance grindset. If you’re already one of the dimmest guys alive are you just going to rest on your laurels? No, you’re going to get out there and innovate the paid to be a dipshit space in ways that are frankly startling. Work harder to not get smarter. pic.twitter.com/anIXiWHRUF

— Huge Mantis (@HugeMantis) May 12, 2023

extremely gratifying

rip Doyle Brunson - here is when he totally destroyed Jason Calacanis for $100k https://t.co/JPyqZPRRso

— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) May 16, 2023

so funny that @jason is a long time high stake tv fish

like once or twice just to play with the big boys is fine, tho personally i would rather not do it on tv, but he was on those shows for years

lol

and some of the truest words ever spoken about poker pic.twitter.com/Q5jq5xh0JO

— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) May 16, 2023

lol yeah I hadn't put 2 and 2 together that Jason Calacanis was THAT guy

as much as I despise some of this shit I will give crypto some credit in that it's kind of kept poker alive and well these last 7-8 years. one site I'm on lets you do NFT profile pictures which I think is a great feature because not only are these players always awful they tilt extremely frequently. so it's nice to be album to identify them so easily

he didn't use that term when he opened his first roadside chicken shack

He did, however, use the appellation "Colonel" unironically.

(Yes, I know, he was actually a "Kentucky Colonel," but come on now, he sold shitty fried chicken.)

I remember hearing that Harlan Sanders had some policy that no one would ever be turned away for lack of money, but of course the company quietly dropped that philanthropic gesture when he sold it

He then went on to talk shit about their newly formulated gravy in public, quite forcefully

lol - in the 19th century "a Kentucky Colonel" meant an unofficial self-awarded military title.

And that's that:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/tech/elizabeth-holmes-bid-denied/index.html

I can't imagine listening to her make that extremely self-serving statement to the court just before her sentencing and anyone believing a single word of it.

all timer pic.twitter.com/1Ub2cbqvqF

— sclv (@sclv) May 29, 2023

Presented without comment:

The founder of a fledgling app says that San Francisco’s tech scene is afraid of sex, or at least the word “sex.”

Elizabeth Dell, the founder and CEO of the romance and sex app Amorus — an app that gamifies sexting for long-term couples — is accusing Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) — the wildly influential tech venture capital firm based in Menlo Park — of hiding her successful sex tech mixer during San Francisco Tech Week.

hiding her successful sex tech mixer during San Francisco Tech Week

these words arent in the bible

Oh it gets rich:

“Part of this is to build community among the sex tech community, but part of this is also to bring this community to the wider tech community,” Dell said. “… Just like prop tech [real estate and property technology] or space tech or fintech [financial technology] or whatever, I want sex tech on the list.”

IDK, pretty sure porn is pretty well established in the wider tech community

It's not cheating if you fuck a robot.

https://i0.wp.com/relationshipchief.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-05-17-09.30.08.jpg

EMERGENCY EYEWASH STATION

Must be AI, Musk would never kiss a black robot.

I hope that’s Michael Dell’s fail daughter.

lol if it's successful it would be something that would be used mostly by non long-term couples tbh

Are those midjourney or real? Either answer is kind of terrifying.

Execs at OneTaste, SF ‘orgasmic meditation’ startup, indicted by feds

Leaders at OneTaste, the once-celebrated and celebrity-endorsed “orgasmic meditation” startup founded in San Francisco, now face conspiracy charges connected to treatment that officials allege was sexual and psychological abuse and intimidation against OneTaste's clients, many of whom had come to the startup to heal from sexual trauma.

Nicole Daedone, OneTaste’s founder and former CEO, and Rachel Cherwitz, the company’s former head of sales, face charges of forced labor conspiracy in connection to their leadership of the company. Cherwitz, a Mendocino County resident, was arrested in San Francisco Tuesday, according to the Justice Department; Daedone is still at large.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/onetaste-leaders-charged-with-conspiracy-18141101.php

The Netflix documentary on that was pretty nuts.

I had almost forgotten about that place! I remember when it opened and was advertising everywhere and ... I don't think anyone I know did not see some sort of red flag or another, just in the way it marketed itself.

Music won’t require personal musicians in fifteen years and your favorite “artist” will be a personal algorithm, though you will still have your favorite generic public celebrity musicians

— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) June 29, 2023

Everyone's fave band, The Algorithmics.

Nothing but the greatest respect for AI Lennox

🐦[Music won’t require personal musicians in fifteen years and your favorite “artist” will be a personal algorithm, though you will still have your favorite generic public celebrity musicians
— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) June 29, 2023🕸]🐦

Everyone's fave band, The Algorithmics.

― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r)

Nothing but the greatest respect for AI Lennox

― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins)

Yer 'Rythmics

Music won’t require personal musicians in fifteen years

uh, if you're willing to include very bad music, then music doesn't require a person right now, so that's hardly a 'prediction'.

your favorite “artist” will be a personal algorithm, though you will still have your favorite generic public celebrity musicians

i quickly lost count of how many ways that is wrong

'Personal musicians' though, sad to hear people won't employ their own troupes of lute playing minstrels in the future

I have a 20 piece string orchestra a la Louis XVI to serenade my soupers.

ain't gonna work on Vinod's farm no more

Haha

it's here, the flying car is here, finally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QaTwebs5nY

the True Believers are willing to believe

According to 1970's Andy, this should've dropped around 1982

Whatever you think of them otherwise Zuckerberg seems like a much more interesting guy than Musk. Pro-natalism, media criticism, pro space colonisation etc are milquetoast things you'd pick up in SF tech circles. Zuck is like, no I'm not into that, I'm a Roman emperor actually.

— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) July 8, 2023

this guy is endlessly amazing to me

I’d ask you what you think, but I really don’t care 🫶🏻 pic.twitter.com/k77rbk2b3M

— Zero (@bryan_johnson) July 2, 2023

does he actually think this is a look worth spending millions of dollars a month on?

request that user map weighs in on the whole mormanism of it!

also what the absolute fuck is that shirt

He has a store brand Willem Dafoe vibe.

Um “i want to show u nips but i’m skeered? here’s mischevious armpit adjacent holes!”?

full body lasering nbd

That guy kills me because he absolutely looks great for 60 but obviously as we all keep hearing is 45. Spend a million dollars on fun (and normal shirts) my guy

https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/