Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
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Founder @spindl_xyz . Wrote 'Chaos Monkeys' (). Wearer of many hats. גם זה יעבור 🇺🇲🇪🇸
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Our latest
@spindl_xyz
post is on
@farcaster_xyz
and their Frames product that launched Friday, which is the buzz of crypto/Web 3 right now.
Ironically, the idea dates to a massive FB product flameout from when I was there.
(Link in reply.)
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The fact the catchphrase is “tax the rich” and not “help the poor” is telling.
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Every item in this SF Walgreens is under lock and key.
There’s practically nothing you can buy without having to call an associate to unlock something.
I’ve never been in a country that lives this way.
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Once in my teen years, we were taking a family photo and someone suggested I kneel in front to fit everyone into the frame.
My flinty Cuban grandma suddenly interjected 'de rodillas nunca!'. 'On your knees, never!'
She ordered me to stand instead.
Thinking of that now.
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Accidentally ordered a bottle of wine in Portugal as I assumed the prices were by the glass because I live in an exorbitant dystopia.
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What Elon is doing is a revolt by entrepreneurial capital against the professional-managerial class regime that otherwise everywhere dominates (including and especially large tech companies), and that same PMC (which includes the media) is treating it as an act of lèse-majesté.
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The Ukrainian mechanic of a yacht owned by a Russian tycoon (who made his fortune supplying the Russian military) sabotaged and sank the yacht.
"My boss is a criminal...I don't regret anything and I'd do it again," he said, upon turning himself in.
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It will never cease to amuse me that Florida was able to build fast rail between its cities, while California—blessed with fabulous wealth and weather but cursed with smug, impotent, corrupt politics—couldn’t lay down a single rail after tens of billions spent.
Train travel between Orlando and Miami officially kicked off this morning.
@GoBrightline
trains will run nearly every hour, covering the full route in a little over 3 hours with stops in Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.
🎥
@Ananyati
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It's intriguing how the progressive left--Bernie, AOC, the 'squad', the whole crew that normally tweets 10 times per day and has opinions on everything--goes absolutely mute when confronted by some hard, inconvenient reality outside the US liberal bubble like Cuba or Afghanistan.
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How quickly the far left went from “believe all women” to “well, was the dead, stripped-naked woman with the broken pelvis who eyewitnesses saw brutalized *really* raped?”
“Believe all women” was always an absurd overreach: woman should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required. The same is true of the allegations out of Israel.
But also, this isn’t a “believe women” scenario bc no female victims have offered testimony.
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The well is owned by Pemex, a state-owned entity formed from the nationalization of private assets.
The sea is on fire but some people *still* think capitalism can be managed.
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I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy.
As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
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Every founder/CEO in Silicon Valley is looking at the purge underway at Twitter under Elon, and wondering if they can finally correct the mistake of allowing the Borg into their companies by doing the same.
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The Burning Man story is so fascinating because:
1. It's always been ridiculous to stage a drugged-out street festival for helpless city people in such a hostile climate
2. They're not even very isolated; they're barely in the desert and alongside a highway
3. Anyone could…
Over 70,000 people at Burning Man are trapped, sheltering-in-place and being told to conserve resources after rains swamped Black Rock City.
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With the Boomers joining forces with the Millennials to cancel Rogan on Spotify, can we finally all agree that GenX was The Last Good Generation?
Après nous, le déluge.
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When Elon finally takes off to Mars, they're going to have to load extra fuel to get his balls into orbit, that's how massive they are.
(That's a sitting US senator he's replying to.)
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We’ll be in power for 30 seconds between the boomers dying, their skeletal hands still clutching the levers of power, and Millenials crybullying right over us.
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Funny how fast we went from 'tech bros' to oppressed 'workers'.
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To think that without Twitter (with
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NYT just dropped this.
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Can’t think of many in the American political class who’d be able or willing to do this.
Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister of Israel, arrives for reserve duty.
He has joined Israel’s soldiers on the frontlines to defend Israel. May he and all the soldiers stay safe.
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Meta's business has been kneecapped by Apple, growth has stopped in favor of rivals like TikTok, and it's too late to build a phone.
Zuck is making an existential bet-the-company move at enormous scale. Most companies would just delude themselves and slowly die.
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Elon simply defenestrating the entire HR regime, the ESG grifters, the Skittles-hair people with mouse-clicking jobs who think themselves bold social crusaders rather than a parasitic weight around any organization’s neck, is an intolerable overturning of the social order.
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Twitter *must* fail after the purge of such a former elite. For if Twitter does not fail, if in fact it manages to emerge stronger than before, then what sort of example would this set for every other organization similarly captured by this elite? Unthinkable.
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If Elon takes over, there’ll be a slew of left-wing Gabs and Parlers as the super-woke threaten to leave Twitter, they’ll all fail like the right-wing versions did, and it’ll be glorious to watch the “just build your own” people sulk and wail.
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A mother had enough time to hear about the shooting, drive 40 miles (!), yell at the police to do something, get cuffed by them, talk herself out of the cuffs, and then jump the fence and rescue her kids...before the cops dealt with the situation.
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Worth remembering every so often how hard life used to be, not even that long ago.
A coal miner takes a bath after a shift in the mines. Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, April 1943. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
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5. Apple has issued a statement that clearly implies there was some negative behavior by me during my time at Apple. That is defamatory and categorically false.
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Everyone who isn't a complete fucking moron (or a white elite, but I repeat myself) understood this is exactly where 'defund the police' actually ends up: the wealthy and powerful afforded private security, and everyone else in a state of anarcho-tyranny.
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Back in a NATO country. Those who mercilessly criticize the liberal order should take a step outside it every now and then. They might appreciate it more.
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For the millionth time, the media is fabricating a moral panic around their belated discovery that Facebook does what they do, but better, more scalably, and more profitably.
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Canceling a popular podcaster for old episodes everyone knew about and enjoyed at the time (but which are suddenly ‘problematic’, meaning susceptible to cynical use in power games) is *almost* like a company firing an author for a bestselling book they once wrote. Almost.
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As with anti-Asian violence, the surge in anti-Semitic violence in the US will not be duly declared a real problem until it’s the ‘right’ people doing the violence.
Then it will be repurposed for ongoing political partisanship.
The morality play must be properly cast.
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Let’s see how much drama we can cause in SF.
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It's intriguing how the New Right shares the same underlying precepts of the old hippie left:
1. The US is incapable of doing good in the world, and historically has been a force for evil
2. Everything that happens in the world is the direct result or responsibility of the US
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A society and culture whose elites think 'LatinX' is real and the 1619 Project some sort of serious debate suddenly having to grapple with Eastern European power politics and a hot ethnic war.
LOL
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Walking down Bograshov Street in Tel Aviv this morning, past French bakeries, yoga studios and wine shops, alongside tattooed hipsters wearing Lululemon, it struck me how Western elites increasingly call for the destruction of the only place in the region they'd deign to live in.
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@HistoryBoomer
These people think they're the guy in the red circle.
They're actually everyone else.
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I occasionally ponder what it would take for me to feel motivated to make someone lose their livelihood, to make them suddenly unable to support themselves and their family, to make them an object of ostracism and ridicule.
It would take a lot. I don’t think it’s ever happened.
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One of the mysteries future historians will be forced to unravel is how a generation living during an historical oasis of peace and prosperity, and at the very peak of material comfort and indulgence, convinced themselves they're living in the end of days.
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Is it just me and my distorted Twitter mirror, or is the Surfside building collapse with over 150 people unaccounted for and possibly dead getting surprisingly little national attention?
.
@MiamiDadeFire
shared a video of the rescue efforts underway to find any survivors trapped under the rubble of the collapsed condo in Surfside.
LATEST:
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California is a red state with three large blue cities.
Few in the those blue cities seem to understand this.
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It’s hard to imagine a contemporary Western leader who, faced with invasion by a nation famous for its brutality, would possess the courage to stay at their post until the bitter end.
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It's fascinating the outcry at the thought of Elon buying Twitter: We don't want this guy with the wrong values running the public square!
Meanwhile one of the biggest Twitter shareholders is....Saudi Arabia.
@Alwaleed_Talal
@Twitter
@Kingdom_KHC
Interesting. Just two questions, if I may.
How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly?
What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?
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"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth. To the next generation of dreamers: if we can do this, just imagine what you can do
#Unity22
@virgingalactic
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Social media didn’t ruin society; it simply unmasked it.
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There's a Jewish folktale about King Solomon asking a counselor for an adage that would make the happy man sad, and the sad man happy. Said counselor, perplexed, asked a jeweler in the bazaar for advice. The jeweler inscribed on a ring: 'This too shall pass.'
שבת שלום
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The keffiyeh is the new Che t-shirt, and “from the river to the sea” the new “hasta la victoria siempre.”
Spoiled Western kids spouting the rhetoric of violent conflicts they don’t understand (with parental approval), before prancing off to comfortable secular capitalist lives.
And here's a video from Balboa High School students in San Francisco...
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Going back to SF from Singapore is...a transition.
Having dinner in a neighborhood spot, and there was someone clearly having a mental health episode inside while loitering.
Nobody, not clients or staff, do anything. Wild to live in a place where social norms are just gone.
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When the wealthy laundered their guilt through Catholic indulgences instead of NGOs, we at least got Michelangelo and gorgeous cathedrals out of it.
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What tremendous historical irony.
The Arch of Titus commemorates the Roman triumph over the Jewish rebellion in Judea, resulting in the destruction of the temple and the Jewish state, and sparking 2,000 years of exile that ended with the founding of the state of Israel.
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Free speech means he won't boot your ass off Twitter.
Doesn't mean he has to listen to you.
FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk.
So much for being “committed” to free speech.
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Trying to explain to a left-wing Israeli how it is the Western left aligns itself with a genocidal theocratic death cult instead of the Israeli left, which is an absolutely crunchy old-school collectivist kibbutz left, is an intellectual journey, let me tell you.
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X is not happening, you conspiracy theorist!
(Incontrovertible proof of X emerges)
We always knew this was happening and it’s good actually!
Is the hack around the inability of narrative-shapers to delete things from the Internet mind (as censors once did).
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Full self-driving in the Tesla is incredible.
You enter a destination, and the car just drives you there, including lane changes, veering, offramps, traffic lights, turns, the works.
Nobody will routinely drive again. We’ll refer to the manual driving era as the Dark Ages.
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Fascinating to watch as otherwise smart, worldly people parrot Hamas statistics and talking points as if they were real.
It's like when intellectuals would repeat the Soviet party line during the Cold War, but in the present day.
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90% of the disconnect between the West and Israel is Israel still living in the capital 'H' History of ethno-nationalist struggle and war, and the West having resigned itself to the Fukuyaman End of History: life as virtue-signaling LARP, and the UN/US/EU as the global HR dept.
unclear what israel is trying to accomplish planting flags in gaza
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Wartime Lviv is cleaner and more orderly than SF on a good day.
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The irresistible male urge to walk across the entire city alone after a night out rather than take any form of transport.
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Autonomous vehicle technology is really out of control.
This is almost Terminator levels.
Waukesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores of others.
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Turns out that peak happiness as a tech entrepreneur is running a bootstrapped software company in Tulsa, OK which has a monopoly on funeral accounting software and a $20M top line, while most everyone in Silicon Valley is a fool chasing expensive dreams.
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Bootlicker.
John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9
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Those citing “Oppenheimer” as a cautionary tale for AI about the need to regulate dangerous technology may wish to consider that, after years of nuclear activism and regulation, we’ve kept its murderous uses and have essentially banned its unique promise: clean, limitless energy.
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Two security guys with Level 2 armor, pistols, and tactical gear in front of the SF Target, because that’s how it is now. Place packed with families.
This is what you see in parts of Latin America. Still jarring here.
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4. I did not 'part ways' with Apple. I was fired by Apple in a snap decision.
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I suspect much of Top Gun’s success was merely due to it not being some unwatchable woke bullshit or a childish superhero story, a miraculous occurrence in our current mediascape.
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It's amazing to me how even relatively worldly and educated people in SF think FL is some sort of jackbooted fascist state, a state whose largest city is perhaps the most riotously diverse and lively metro area of the US. It's just incredible to watch the fantasy eat their minds.
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My 6-yo, loudly on a flight, with zero warning:
"Mommy says you're turning into a Jew."
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I might be taking this remote work thing too far.
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Going to tell my kids these were the Houthis.
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@medeabenjamin
Aw…such a shame you couldn’t have your little white savior experience with Cubans. Is this what you were expecting?
You condescending fool, presuming to lecture those who’ve experienced the Cuban reality with your clueless views on the matter.
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Once you internalize that modern liberalism is about freeing the individual from unchosen obligations, but that a well-lived life--according to any tradition, faith, or psychology--is about living within the limits and duties of a higher calling, our current insanity makes sense.
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If your entire political philosophy is simply being against “the current thing” you’re still just a fucking NPC, hate to break it to you.
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BREAKING: Convoy of black vehicles fill SF streets as ousted Open AI leader attempts coup to reseize power.
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3. Apple was well aware of my writing before hiring me. My references were questioned extensively about my bestselling book and my real professional persona (rather than literary one).
This set of prominent Valley VCs and execs are all willing to assert as much under oath.
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1. Apple actively recruited me for my role on the ads team, reaching out via a former colleague to convince me to join. Apple found my experience in the ads space, specifically around data and privacy, highly relevant to their efforts and persuaded me to leave my then role.
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People reacting to what Israel does almost always demonstrates why Israel needs to exist.
Insane footage on Russian social media from Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region, where there have been several anti-Semitic protests this weekend.
A crowd of people, some with Palestinian flags, broke into the airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.
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It's amusing to watch the very caste whose entire status rides on that little checkmark swearing up and down that they'd never be such losers as to pay for it.
You're going to fork out for it (or your employer will). Who are you kidding? You'd pay more than $20 even. LMAO.
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The eternal mystery of how an Indian Chipotle-style franchise hasn't taken off yet.
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2. I upended my life for Apple. I sold my WA residence which I built with my own hands, relocated myself, shut down any public media presence and future writing aspirations, and resolved to build my career at Apple for years to come.
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I guess the way to get positive coverage in the NYT as a tech founder is to steal $10B.
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I don’t know about you, but the Afghanistan thing has me utterly bent out of shape. Rare these days to feel that giddy rush of History happening before your eyes, but this was it.
Something has clicked in the cosmic order, an era is over, and matters will be forever different.
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My last time in Paris, I visited one of the few remaining Jewish delis in Le Marais. There was a squad of Legionnaires in front protecting it.
I thought: This would be like the 82nd Airborne protecting Katz's Deli in New York. Thank God the US is different.
Well, here we are.
Jews being attacked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Can’t say I didn’t see this coming 😞
@jews_of_ny
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Struggling within the most ruthless capitalism to make the fortune necessary to insulate you and your family from leftist social experiments while paying public lip service to them is kind of the new American upper-middle-class vibe.
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Hungary is to the American right what Denmark is to the American left: a tiny European ethno-state improbably held up as fetishistic example, either for the magic choo-choo trains or pro-family tax policies, and both utterly irrelevant to a pluralistic nation-empire of 330M.
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Ozempic was invented in Denmark.
The Danes are making so much money off Americans, it's impacting their interest rates.
Americans spend 2x more of their GDP on healthcare than Europe: they're not subsidizing, they're getting price-gouged.
Americans are 2x fatter than…
do Americans ever get tired of subsidizing the rest of the world
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Someone just passed the 4M mile mark on United, and the whole crew including pilots has come out to thank them and give them a card.
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In Burnham’s formulation, this new managerial class would supplant the former business-owning bourgeois and even capital itself as the elite ruling class.
Most woke ‘labor’ scandals in tech are an entitled middle-management class at odds with founders.
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Future historians are going to have an absolute blast writing us up.
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The most misunderstood intellectual in modern times is Francis Fukuyama (
@FukuyamaFrancis
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In the latest Pull Request, I summarize this essential work.
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It's admittedly somewhat ironic that I'm beating Steve Jobs at the moment.
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I'll be afraid of the right when I lose my job over writing something that runs counter to their politics.
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It’s noteworthy that during the tumultuous Cuban Revolution, when the state came for the children and was going to send them to education camps is when everyone freaked out and put their kids on flights out in a panic (my parents among them).
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In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes.
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California is like a gorgeous, psychotic, drug-addicted woman you know will ruin your life but you can’t quit.
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The modern American progressive: I know nothing about the region or the issues at play, but I reserve the right to have strong (and influential) opinions about it.
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All this Elon Man of the Year hate from people who've never built a thing: obviously if you were to pick one prominent person who's mostly likely to be remembered a century from now, it's him.
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