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Alrite, first let's separate the issue. Gus is conflating the two things I brought up and adding a third which I didn't. So 1) longtermism 2) tech connections to far right and/or reactionary thought 3) a whataboutism argument about all the bad things corporations outside tech do and whether...

^the Chicago two are the Tribune Tower and Marina Towers. Been in both many times. Tribune Tower is being converted to luxury condos like every other thing, now that physical newspapers are no longer really a thing. Marina Towers is surprisingly grody on the inside, very 70s (like the outside)...

you're wrong here, tho longtermism is the computer engineer's optimize everything approach applied to 19th-20th C type utopian impulses. it's a tiny clique of self-appointed philospher-kings deciding what the ideal future is for everyone and acting to impose that future on everyone. one of...

it's not tech culture == fascism it's that, ca 2022, you don't see any other American industry where people openly advocate for something like monarchism, or where CEOs or other prominent figures are so openly in bed with actual fascists

it doesn't surprise me at all in fascism. one of fascism's cornerstones is reconciling seemingly irreconcilable, incoherent contradictions, what Eco refers to as its fuzziness. it surprises me in tech, how strongly and widely - if not unanimously or even majority, certainly a strong and vocal...

The destructive impulse of fascism I fully understand in tech - disrupt, move fast break things, build the new world on the ashes of the old What I understand less is the other side of fascism - the appeal to traditionalism, return to a mythical golden age - which would seem to be totally at...

That is unfortunately true Case in point, Filippo Marinetti, author of both the Futurist and Fascist Manifestos

Tesla was insanely overvalued even by tech standards, so much so that even after losing half its peak value its p/e still at 56, 2.5x the S+P 500 average (its peak was something wild like 75 iirc), so the bubble was always going to burst at some point. Tbf the decline started well before he...

He's brought back Trump (who just had dinner with avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes and [sighs] Kanye), Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc and now he's banning - personally, it seems in some cases - high-profile anti-fascist accounts, under the guise of "restoring an even playing field". I'll be...

he brought back Marjorie Taylor Greene the other day and she immediately started throwing homophobic slurs https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/marjorie-taylor-greene-hurls-homophobic-slur-at-bay-area-rep/ so yeah definitely something worth talking about I don't think it's hyperbole to say that...

see also: imagine thinking the world's richest man doing something that seriously effects many, many lives - all the fired/driven out employees, anyone who depends on Twitter for a significant portion of their income, etc - and destroying probably the most important social network in the world...

I do agree with this. by and large the only thing that has been enough to cause popular revolutions (i.e. discounting revolutions that are primarily about displacing one ruling class with another, like the American Revolution) is serious enough material privation and to a lesser extent political...

it's probably fading now as that generation of Kennedys recedes into history but when I was growing up the Kennedy Curse - Rosemary (the lobotomized one), Chappaquiddick, etc in addition to JFK and RFK, and eventually JFK Jr.'s plane crash - was something probably a great majority of Americans...

@version deleted the post but this tweet is actually a great example of how conspiracy theorists selectively use information to bolster their cases and ignore it when it contradicts them there was a third reporter present, Willie Allen. he was still alive and well and talking about the...

idk how serious you're being but yeah it's very difficult to imagine that 60 years from now there will still be an entire cottage industry devoted to untangling the Tory PPE conspiracy. ofc it's good that it's receiving the attention it is, and hopefully some of the funds can be recovered/the...

no worries and we had the Green Scare here in the U.S. so I'm well familiar with undercovers, provacateurs, etc I meant ignorant more in the sense of having a very narrow, and passionate, worldivew. people tend to know a lot and care deeply about what they know about, which certainly imparts a...

of course it's not proof of there not being a conspiracy. it's impossible to prove a negative. but one of the central pillars of any JFK conspiracy theory is that the people who did it were powerful and competent enough to secretly assassinate a sitting President and get away with zero...

mostly I think that stuff like JFK or jet fuel can't melt steel beams or whatever distracts people from all those actual non-sexy conspiracies Ponzi schemes, price-fixing, fraud - these things make average peoples' lives more difficult. they ruin lives. they happen all the time. one recent...

I don't disagree more broadly that antiauthoritarian leftists have been put in something of a cleft stick over the last decade or so a big part of that is intentional - the deliberation and quite successful cooptation of culture and tactics by the alt-right etc but it's also about a lack of...