Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

not sure I agree with that.. maybe we could retain it as an actual word and not a slur

sorry it never occurred to me!

xp to andy

the latest rolling thread on race is thataway -> Rolling Thread on Race 2022

your 1500 word essay on why 'chink' should be retained as a word and not a slur is due on my desk by 9 AM sharp tomorrow morning, or i'm failing you for the semester!

provide an appendix on 'niggardly'

the shivers up my spine when i hear the word “friendsgiving”

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, November 21, 2023 11:51 AM (seven hours ago)

way out on a limb here but let me guess, you have healthy relationships with your parents and/or inherited a bunch of money from someone.

for others, friendsgiving is for those who lack those kind of nuclear safety nets, god forbid you get the shivers or... the vapors!

check your privilege? :-)

suspect table's objection is less to "having friends" and more to "talking like a rejected buffy script all the time", or maybe to "reifying the nuclear-family definition of thanksgiving by presuming the necessity of a neologism", or even to "that neologism's very syntax implying that its coiners take the word 'thanks' as having something to do with mom and dad", not that i or anyone else can rly know what goes thru his head as he and his clan stroll the innermost gardens of table manor

yeah just call it thanksgiving its not like its named famsgiving

have had many very enjoyable thanksgivings w friends rather than family and you know what i’ll do it again

Tracer, way out on a limb again but gonna assume you have not had a turkey dinner in the 21st century.

well look out below my friend, i am riding that gravy train to turkey town on the reg (tho i have been known to mix it up w duck and rooster)

:O

As a non-american, Thanksgiving isn't less cringeworthy than Friendsgiving as a title (quite apart from issues of holy fucking shit take off that pilgrim hat)

photos of American ILXors gathered at thanksgiving/friendsgiving with pilgrim hats on plz

xposts to Steve Shasta, I didn’t see my biological family for Thanksgiving or many holidays at all from 2006-2017. it certainly is privileged to have homophobic parents who question your “decision” to be gay all the time!

But really, difficult listening hour gets it down— it’s a cringeworthy word. I don’t like the holiday for many reasons, but even in those years when I spent it with friends or my roommates, we called it “Thanksgiving”.

also fwiw one of my books is named after a sandwich which is named after the holiday— I’ve thought about the word a lot.

My understanding of Friendsgiving is that it’s an extra gathering with non-family on Friday

mind going all kinds of places trying to align this with the youth saying “it’s giving” about all kinds of things

ILX IS INVITED TO MY HOT THANKS-TAKE

I would have a FAPsgiving with all of you!

My understanding of Friendsgiving is that it’s an extra gathering with non-family on Friday

agreed. the idea that this would happen before Thursday is heresy. That's just dinner!

idk if its proper but people def call having day of thanksgiving thanksgiving with friends friendsgiving

sad but true

"friendsgiving" is when you just watch the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends all day

In that context it sounds like a ritual where you sacrifice your friends on the fourth Thursday of November, which tbh is making me come back around on liking the name

Everyone here is awesome and I’m thankful, but how about let’s-get-over-ourselves-giving i think that might be most in keeping with whatever fictional spirit of the day there is. NB i’m told I’m usually wrong.

(That was not in response to the Friends joke but it still works)

Um, please look at the thread title... there's another thread for this line of chatter

The search results disagree with you

The Elon Musk thread says what you talking about?

YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

Lol, and I do love it.

#onethread

I really don't even like turkey, but whatever.

call it what you want, for me when someone says "friendsgiving" the vibe i get is often "spending time around my birth family is actively traumatic"... the more ways it becomes socially acceptable to say that, the better, imo

idk I think people also say that when they aren’t able to travel, too

JFC bro

A former employee at prominent San Francisco tech startup Tradeshift has filed a lawsuit against the company, its former CEO and several board members and investors, alleging that she was subject to a “sexual slave contract.”

The suit, filed Thursday under “Jane Doe” in San Francisco, alleges that Christian Lanng, the former CEO and Tradeshift co-founder, sexually abused the plaintiff, his executive assistant, and trafficked her around the world. Though the supply chain software startup fired Lanng from his CEO job in September, citing “serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment,” the lawsuit alleges board members and investors knew about the allegations since 2019.

“believe the sv exec assts” is my gp

did we discuss this anywhere. wild stuff.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/style/praxis-city-dryden-brown.html

I just read that Praxis story, so dumb. Gave me strong Jean-Ralphio vibes. Doesn't really seem like anyone takes him seriously — but even at that, he's managed to scam nearly $20 million in startup money to have parties and drink expensive water.

the lawsuit alleges board members and investors knew about the allegations since 2019.

Tradeshift's 2018 funding round was led by Goldman Sachs

I thought I must've found this here but I can't find it - it's a long one, but guess who's behind the new initiative uniting techbros, Peter Thiel, and Dimes Square? https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/among-the-reality-entrepreneurs

A Happy Holiday and Merry Christmas to all those celebrating, from @PalantirTech CEO Alex Karp and the whole Palantir family. pic.twitter.com/QYq5wemQOr

— Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) December 22, 2023

ah not great

this palantir?

💥 NEW 💥

Leaked emails reveal that the tech giant Palantir has hired Topham Guerin to pay influencers to attack Good Law Project on social media – but the source of the money is to be kept “confidential” 👀 https://t.co/MYezV0sNtP

— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) December 22, 2023

brb going to go fight xenophobia by *checks notes* attacking non-western values

I work on the same floor in the same building as Palintir. They replaced Spotify and Wework. I don’t know what’s wrong with my building. But I have a really hard time taking the elevator with those kids (and they’re all kids) with the marching corporate backpacks. On their way to program AI software and drones to I guess fight non western values?

what is up with the editing of that video

I hope Karp and every single person at Palantir dies

So creepy. Also great that they found the one place in the lower 48 that currently has snow on the ground.

Just starting this https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trillbilly-workers-party/id1227003413?i=1000639339639 re an Appalachian “silicon holler” agritech startup

Y Combinator CEO wishes death to SF supervisors