At some point it has to stop being possible to blackmail people over the heinous crime of "liking sex" but it really seems like humanity might boil the oceans first. Insane
Elon Musk purchasing twitter, saddling it with debt, and driving away the employees may appear irrational and wasteful - but this is precisely the point! He has flown free of the sphere of profane rationality and into a mode of antiproduction, akin to potlatch or ritual sacrifice
Levels of male friendship:
Just met —> “Seem like a cool guy…”
Hung out twice —> “I got a buddy who…”
Go out on weekends —> “I got a buddy who…”
Literally best friends —> “I got a buddy who…”
Known each other for life —> “I got a buddy who…”
7/ Everyone I met was sincere and I do think there is a genuine desire of many of these innovators to do good.
But today, it feels like we work for technology, instead of technology working for us. This needs to change. Fast.
Me: What kind of work do you do?
Patient: I work at a homeless youth shelter.
Me: That’s cool. Remind me to tell you something awesome when we’re done.
(Later.)
Me: You’re doing important work. And sometimes, those youth grow up and become docs.
Patient: 😭
Me: 😭
every couple months a tech company will re-invent something we already have like a bus or a sailboat but more evil. congrats to these dopes for somehow doing that for the concept of Gorillaz
blockchain people not realizing git is already decentralized is funny but also incredibly sad and an indictment of their entire movement. they don't know anything about decentralization unless it's attached to a bitcoin fork they can try to profit off of
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