the endgame is in sight: https://jalopnik.com/this-blowjob-machine-designed-for-teslas-on-autopilot-i-1844296987
― rob, Friday, 10 July 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
"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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
love that tech is literally gentrifying poverty now
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
spaghetti in the bath tub, but it's a really good sauce
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
i live in an actual trailer park and your fascination can go fuck itself :) xp
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
not having a home. so sexy
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
alright fair, i'm just totally repulsed by same
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
Does this displace other RV parks?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
I live in an RV park. And guess what, I used to live in a van. And I am also horrified by this development.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/nS7pUeMQq7urm/giphy.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
I kinda wanna look up what "communal space in San Francisco" this dude lives in ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
lolllll he lives at ******, owned by ******** who made a bunch of tech money and bought a huge old Victorian
― lukas, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
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?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
feel free to dm via ilx
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
just sent to u
― lukas, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
lol -- the place i was thinking of was in Hayes Valley but had a similar name
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
You'll never have to make your bed again pic.twitter.com/qTQjUnjvjE— Mashable (@mashable) July 22, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
otm xp
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
like earlier this year, pre-covid, i got asked for tax advice about structuring a non-profit RV park -- as in a charitable org was planning on taking vacant land and developing an RV park for actual poor people and what the tax issues would be .. and I thought, that's actually an interesting model for non-profit affordable housing.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
xp how bout you watch this dick suck itself instead, OH!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
so part of me is like -- yeah, start up bro, you should do this, but you should also be required to have a % allocated for low-income people who have access to the same dope wi-fi and snacks as yr techpals
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
this is good
https://pycnocline.substack.com/p/tech-brain
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
Desperately searching for guidance, on TWITTER, is where this guy went wrong. Everything in that article is about Twitter.
― DJI, Saturday, 8 August 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
There seems to be a whole ecosystem of journalism around how shitty the discourse is on Twitter. Cancel culture, decontextualizing, dunking, phony aphorisms and vapid bits of received wisdom. Then don't read Twitter, Stephanie, like the other 78% of Americans who don't use it. I'm pretty sure you'll feel better, even if you miss out on some hilarious dunks.
― DJI, Saturday, 8 August 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
it's by a woman.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 August 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
Figured that out by my second post 😜
― DJI, Saturday, 8 August 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
ime it's definitely too twitter-focused but I think she is decribing a real thing
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 8 August 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
In the 17th century version of twitter (c'est-à-dire, Les pensées), Pascal put it like this:
The difference between the mathematical mind [esprit de géométrie] and the perceptive mind [esprit de finesse]: the reason that mathematicians are not perceptive is that they do not see what is before them, and that, accustomed to the exact and plain principles of mathematics, and not reasoning till they have well inspected and arranged their principles, they are lost in matters of perception where the principles do not allow for such arrangement.... These principles are so fine and so numerous that a very delicate and very clear sense is needed to perceive them, and to judge rightly and justly when they are perceived, without for the most part being able to demonstrate them in order as in mathematics; because the principles are not known to us in the same way, and because it would be an endless matter to undertake it. We must see the matter at once, at one glance, and not by a process of reasoning, at least to a certain degree.... Mathematicians wish to treat matters of perception mathematically, and make themselves ridiculous...the mind...does it tacitly, naturally, and without technical rules.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
hueg if treu/booming post. Pascal OTMFM
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
ha. it really is Pascal, I was gonna write Bob Marley but I don't feel like fucking around with this
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
she's right tho i remember that tweet and it's irritating af
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 August 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
That specific tweet reminds me more of Willy Loman than anything else.
― lukas, Saturday, 8 August 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
The worst thing about that tweet, and the reason she’s right to talk about two things, one of which is more benign and facile, is that the author is actually one of the smarter and more interesting Silicon Valley billionaires. He’s a major character in uncanny valley. But that flattening broetry voice is so contagious.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 9 August 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
idk if this is exactly the right thread but
sincerely the worst thing ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/O1HRvfVFSK— jack wagner (@jackdwagner) September 6, 2020
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Yeah to be honest that's the kind of stuff that makes me despair for humanity the most.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 6 September 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
adult tiktok house
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
'adult' tiktok house
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Tbh the mindfulness coach stuff. Like Sharon, if you knew so much about mindfulness, you wouldn't be living in a TikTok house
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 6 September 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
it makes me want to look up planning/zoning code regulations and see if they are in violation of any. ... there was one place similar to this in San Francisco that got in trouble because they were living in a single family home, and they did not qualify as a family according to SF code.
― sarahell, Monday, 7 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Elizabeth Holmes may attempt to claim 'mental disease' in Theranos criminal case
― DJI, Friday, 11 September 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
this is the true story *TRUUUUUUEE STOOOORAY* (xp)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, September 6, 2020 11:53 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
this made me lol more i would have expected
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 11 September 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
We watched The Social Dilemma tonight, wasn’t half bad. Didn’t necessarily tell me anything I didn’t already know.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/bRLZAQcXU8 pic.twitter.com/WAwaVtRlbB— Quantian (@quantian1) October 15, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 15 October 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
IDK if this is the most apt thread, but funnyhttps://twitter.com/i/events/1319027700753784832
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Quibi founders confirm app’s shutdown just six months after launchThe entertainment startup, which created short-form, mobile-based streaming content, is shutting down just six months after launching, founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman confirmed. In an open letter, they said: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we’ve considered and exhausted every option available to us.” Quibi famously raised over $1.75 billion (USD) in capital ahead of its launch.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link