Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

davos/glastonbury for racists morelike

Yeah, WebSummit has always been an embarassment but this is a whole new level. It's a fucking event that gets money from the government and city hall - should hope pressure will result in her getting kicked out before it actually happens.

https://websummit.com/speakers

lol oh shit I know someone on the first couple pages

gotta tell them to get Marine’s autograph

Wait how do u kno ronaldinho

knew that was coming

he opens my beers

https://gizmodo.com/san-franciscos-so-literally-shitty-its-getting-a-poop-1828342269

It’s so weird to visit a city so many times for over a decade and watch it literally turn to shit

At this point, for me - and I’m paraphrasing myself from another thread I think - it’s like somebody you had a big crush on in high school and 20 years later they’ve basically hit rock bottom but their family’s still rich so who cares

Meanwhile... https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-uninvited-from-web-summit/

that gizmodo article is disingenuous bullshit

like yes there is a poop patrol now but all of its snarky "points" are being made in bad faith

Over the years the page count just gets thinner and thinner.

http://owenyoungman.com/thenextmiracle/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/photo.jpg

that first paragraph deliberately misrepresents Kositsky (who is actually doing a really good job and is a very dedicated and p innovative guy) and his broader, actually correct point and then just goes downhill from there

xp

The UK edition is trying to keep the same kind of page count per issue by dropping issues down to 10 or maybe 9 a year now.

Theranos hits the very, very end of the road, after not finding a buyer for the patent portfolio. Will settle with its secured creditor by handing over the IP (such as it is) and return the last $5m cash in the bank to unsecured creditors.

lol at the idea of theranos’ ‘ip’

‘uh we have this commercial blood-sample scanner we took apart and put back together again, badly’

you never know when some stupid thing you wrote will turn out to be essential to someone else's invention if you squint hard enough

This is crazy stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awADEuv5vWY&t=3s

I know Mary Lou through work, and she's legit. It's also possible she is overselling this technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awADEuv5vWY

ELON MUSK: what should i do on joe rogan's show. its gotta be mega epic
TESLA SHORTSELLER WEARING A FAKE MOUSTACHE: you should do drugs on camera
ELON MUSK: yes

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) September 7, 2018

lmao

he’s gone Full McAfee

Watching Lars Ulrich on stage talking about how @Metallica uses @salesforce software for customer engagement and thinking that adult life hasn’t turned out exactly the way I thought it would. #Dreamforce2018 pic.twitter.com/IHbXygU7BF

— Phil Libin (@plibin) September 25, 2018

I was wondering why all these tech people were disinterestedly eating boxed lunches in the park while Master of Puppets was blaring through the air.

not sure where to put this, but it has to go somewhere

https://www.businessinsider.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-hsbc-executive-melania-edwards-2018-10

"Living in the Bay Area exposes me to a plethora of new companies pushing the boundaries."

Where the hell is that giant earthquake?

The word "plethora" always makes me think of Ren from Ren & Stimpy saying "A plethora of mandibles"

"On the evenings that we stay in Palo Alto, we walk down the tree-lined University Avenue, reflecting upon our key wins and challenges and preparing for the adventures of the next day," she said.

affluent person has job but also hobbies, fascinating

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5bc74ed9912a9129385150b4-960-720.jpg

Notice it never mentions that they fuck

?

that article is so close to the Byron Barton board books that one reads to 1.5 year olds

-I hated her so much, it...it...it... flames... flames, on the sides of my face, breathing...breathless...heaping breaths-

I discuss my key wins and challenges with my wife every night too.

How is she btw??

"I find that the best way to set the tone for the day ahead is a short meditation where I focus on deep breathing and determine my priorities for the day," she said.

FYI if you’re determining your priorities for the day, you’re not meditating.

more to the point, is HSBC hiring? she seems to do about 3 hours of work per day, mostly meetings.

Notice it never mentions that they fuck

clearly brother and sister, it would be wrong

El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?

Jefe: A what?

El Guapo: A *plethora*.

Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.

El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?

Jefe: Why, El Guapo?

El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.

Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?

that article is so close to the Byron Barton board books that one reads to 1.5 year olds
otm! is that a... real article? is it a parody?

more to the point, is HSBC hiring? she seems to do about 3 hours of work per day, mostly meetings.

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, her day is broken up by a fucking HOUR AND A HALF LUNCH, and then an HOUR MIDDAY TRAIN RIDE TO PALO ALTO. Meanwhile the rest of her day is just, like, talking to people? Which I get can have its own exhaustion, but it doesn't exactly sound high pressure.

well she does walk along what is basically a freeway while contemplating her key wins. that could be stressful.

Some of the ppl I work with seem to have schedules like this and it's wild to witness

I've hate-read that article like 5 times now and I still can't work out exactly who it's trying to impress.

Shout out to when she says that English Breakfast is her favourite, because after all, she IS British. Using that logic Australian Crawl are my favourite band.

Is this a genre of troll article that I don't know about?

It kind of reminds me of those ridiculous "Here's why a $400,000/year salary doesn't go as far as you might think" articles. Basically designed for hate-sharing.

It almost seems like it was generated using AI

If you look at the author's other articles, this one has like 100x the "fire symbol" as the others, presumably meaning it's been read and shared much more. And I'm guessing the subject has to be her friend or something, right?

this seems..........good

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-10-neural-network-potential-drugs-large-scale.html

hoos i work on this stuff (secure+distributed ML). it's good but it also means more machine learning.

the article had a lot of the same feel as the "avril lavigne is back" one in a way I can't really put my finger on.