Balaji's movie "Technodemocracy" bombs
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from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 07:23
https://awful.systems/post/1816370
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 07:23
https://awful.systems/post/1816370
previously: fails to put it on actually in SF
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oh that’s fucking embarrassing
e: wait, people paid to attend this shit and they couldn’t allocate the price of even one ticket to pay for zoom? that’s worse
should’ve used some of that networked state technology so they didn’t have to be reliant on such tawdry oldworld dead weight as mere webrtc
Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can’t influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.
such edge much oof.
E: slightly annoyed at that site for making scrolling with the keyboard impossible because the picture thing takes the focus so when one shows up the keyboard commands flips the pictures instead of scrolling.
People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.
Quick, throw a grey tribe pride parade!
Glad to see that Srinivasan is doing the good lord’s work of convincing the world that VCs like Balaji Srinivasan are fundamentally unserious people with more money than sense and that the government should tax it away from them before the next round of grifters inevitably do.
i wonder if it has nudity