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― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes charged with "massive fraud" by SEC https://t.co/RmzyJ5ycH6 pic.twitter.com/w7BcdNsxwQ— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 14, 2018
lol pic.twitter.com/OBHS9y2V5B— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 14, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
holmes def guilty of the most heinous crime of all: making the rich and the powerful look dumb af
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
see also fyre festival
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Dave Morin on Theranos…. pic.twitter.com/iv3sfXBw8V— Will Alden (@williamalden) October 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/daveMorin
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
apart from everything else dumb and clueless about that: it must be amazing to have nothing you dislike more than thinking about passing out during your annual physical
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
lmao D@ve M0r1n "Entrepreneur. Investor. Photographer." "sponsor of Britt+Co. creator of super-disruptive world-changing Path. courageous giver of blood. better to be lucky than good."
tbf that's from 2015 but still lmao
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
when youre a real human being pic.twitter.com/iCL9aY5gQA— shane (@shanevader) September 8, 2016
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
get a brain Morin
― goole, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
is there a reason why we should have cared what the director of a ticketing website thought about a medical startup or is it just that silicon valley assholes are experts in everything
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
also if you're gonna invoke the holy of name of millennials at least spell it right you fucking tool
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
The fundamental underlying problem is the system of economic exchange we’re dealing with, which is sometimes called surveillance capitalism. It’s surveillance capitalism that, by tracking and monetizing the basic informational content of our lives, has fueled the spectacular growth of social media and other networked services in the last fifteen years. Personal privacy has been annihilated, and power and money have concentrated in the hands of whoever owns the most sophisticated machine to collect and parse consumer data. Because of the logic of network effects—according to which services increase in value and utility as more people use them—a few strong players have consolidated their control over the digital economy and show little sign of surrendering it.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/techies-who-said-sorry-silverman
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
so back on that "moving to New Zealand" thing, I figured it out, it's because NZ isn't on the map in Risk.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
nor is it part of a WORLD WAR THREE scenario
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
in case anyone is feeling too cheerful about humanity and needs a hate read to bring them down: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/powder-mountain-ski-resort-summit-elite-club-rich-millennials
He tells me he’s open to the suggestion that his community is elitist – “these criticisms, there’s a truth to them” – and insists that he strives to make authentic connections with people from all walks of life. For example, he says, earlier in the day he met a worker at the ski resort who was taking guests on a tour. “I literally could have said, ‘All right, have an awesome tour,’ and instead I was like, ‘So, you’re here all year?’ And he goes, ‘No, I’m actually from New Orleans.’ And I’m like, ‘Really?’” Bisnow says he behaves the same way with servers in restaurants. “When you start to engage with these people you realise the humanity in everyone and how unbelievable they are.” Then he explains how he always sits in the front seat of Uber taxis, talking to dozens of drivers a week, hearing “the most remarkable stories”. He ends up hanging out “with a significant number” of his drivers. I ask how many Uber drivers he’s invited to Summit. He doesn’t say, but instead tells me an anecdote about a chef he invited to Summit after meeting him “at this dilapidated castle in England”.
― it was stale, and I did not like it, as the man said, &c (seandalai), Sunday, 25 March 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
to cook him some food
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
there's been so much worse news this week than a rich kid trying to listen to people who work for him
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
heh
YouTube shooting highlights danger of open work spaces, expert says. https://t.co/5n3bFhjuYM pic.twitter.com/5gVt73titH— ABC News (@ABC) April 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
finally the best argument for offices with walls: they're necessary to keep you safe when people come to shoot at you
blurgh
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
#notallcourtyards
― Jeff, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
YouTube shooting highlights danger of open work spaces, expert says.
oh ffs. has this fucking expert ever noticed the danger of hundreds of millions of easily available guns?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
just think of what a huge security risk the outdoors is
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
that's why I stay inside
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Tbh I have no objection to office workers using shootings as a reason to protest open plan offices
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Or an excuse, rather.
i'd had this in instapaper since it was published and finally got around to reading it
whoooo boy it has not aged well
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
I jumped in on a twitter thread criticizing his trite tweets
for me, throwing out ideas is dumb postulating, but there's the aura of ~ideas~ every time one of these VC/incubator dudes says something. what's their game here, just ruminating about an idea and then crowdsourcing to see if anyone's on it and throwing money at them?
I’m interested in genetically engineering plants to be much more efficient at photosynthesis and grow faster as a potential way to fight climate change. Anyone working on this?— Sam Altman (@sama) April 1, 2018
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
if I wanted to know about something like this, I'd.. google it? and maybe go to a few sites that publish academic papers, read up a little (or have my assistants do it, if I am running a business and have them) and then maybe reach out to scientists who are already experts in that realm?
I guess this is why I'm not a VC wonderboy
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
i don't see how anything could go wrong with this
― vermicious kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I realized again last week that I'd love to see more government and academic labs doing things. A national lab that was connected to my college had a segment on public radio for their anniversary and they mentioned this project:https://www.energy.gov/articles/after-15-years-new-top-earning-patent-ames-lab
The patent's expired now, but it's work that resulted in something that's definitely good for both industry and the environment, and not subject to some VC clown figuring out how to skim the profits.
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
mh he's not doing research he's soliciting pitches
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
yeah, fuck that approach
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
or at least figure out who you should solicit pitches from, other than "random twitter people"
the people who actually know their shit are probably busy doing research, but I guess there's the chance a couple might be hunting around for monetization strategies or funding
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
That Sam Altman tweet just seems like he's plowing the ground for someone to pull off The Big Con on him.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
good afternoon NYC, what fresh hell is this pic.twitter.com/y6gv32emdy— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) April 5, 2018
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
lol @ genetically engineered plansourcing. i suppose he never opened a 3rd grade science textbook
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 April 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
I'm going to "schedule time" and rent jabbbbbrrrrboxes and tell homeless people they can spend the night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Nice ep of On the Media on the ideology of FB and SV as a whole:
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-03-23/
(Even mentions Comte)
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-silicon-valley-startup-billionaire-techie
oh boy
― alvin noto (mh), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
“I worked until 9pm because dinner is free if you work that late ... And they’ll pay for your cab home,” he went on. That became his routine, and he never questioned it. Come to think of it, like a lot of his contemporaries, he never questioned anything.
― alvin noto (mh), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Corey Pein has been hitting the lefty podcast circuit on his book tour, and this was a fun appearance on the Michael Brooks Show:
http://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/website/37-stomping-fascist-nerds-w-h-bomberguy-corey-pein
Lots of dumping of Elon Musk and the bizarre cult around him online
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
The chief executive and co-founder of WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app, is leaving the company over disagreements about privacy and encryption.Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.“It’s been almost a decade since Brian [Acton] and I started WhatsApp, and it’s been an amazing journey with some of the best people. But it is time for me to move on,” wrote Koum on his Facebook profile.“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. And I’ll still be cheering WhatsApp on – just from the outside.”
Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.
“It’s been almost a decade since Brian [Acton] and I started WhatsApp, and it’s been an amazing journey with some of the best people. But it is time for me to move on,” wrote Koum on his Facebook profile.
“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. And I’ll still be cheering WhatsApp on – just from the outside.”
i am leaving the company i founded because its current direction conflicts with my high-minded principles
don't worry tho i'm still an asshole
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 08:50 (six years ago) link
No he feeds the Porsches to his cars.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
you don't understand, 'rare air-cooled porsches' is the name of my dog
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
imagine being a human being and thinking that is an even vaguely acceptable thing to say
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
Sounds like the kind of shit professional athletes say all the time and nobody bats an eye
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
But yes who can we drag at Facebook if not the people actually resigning from Facebook? Can’t think of anyone
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
if i ever listened to anything professional athletes had to say i'm sure i'd feel the same 'ready the guillotines' way i do about this dipshit
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
Anyway, between this and the other WhatsApp founder putting a bunch of his millions into Open Whisper Systems (the Signal people), I assume WhatsApp’s default encryption is going to be Zuck-read-all sooner rather than later
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto
the enemy of my enemy is still an insufferable prick
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link