Balaji's movie "Technodemocracy" bombs (missionlocal.org)
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 07:23
https://awful.systems/post/1816370

initial comment: “It wasn’t even a movie … PowerPoint presentation … Very underwhelming …incoherent mess … Sales pitch for Bitcoin … more appropriate for a Tuesday at 11 a.m.”

previously: fails to put it on actually in SF

#sneerclub

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self@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 07:44 next collapse

Srinivasan, a former partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, who is allegedly based in Singapore, conducted the Q&A through a free Zoom account with a 40-minute time limit — Srinivasan left seconds before the timer hit zero.

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

froztbyte@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 09:22 collapse

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

gerikson@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 08:34 next collapse

Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can’t influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.

Soyweiser@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 09:45 next collapse

the same setting as his four-hour podcast calling for “tech Zionism”

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.

cwood@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 16:33 next collapse

People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.

saucerwizard@awful.systems on 02 Jul 2024 22:34 next collapse

Quick, throw a grey tribe pride parade!

YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 03 Jul 2024 20:15 next collapse

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.

fasterandworse@awful.systems on 05 Jul 2024 17:32 collapse

i wonder if it has nudity