I too was and am horrified at Gas Town, but now I see multiple submissions to lobste.rs and HN not ridiculing it, but actually engaging, and reluctanly concludes that Yegge's Still Got It.
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure he got some tongue-bathing from rich connected overseas Iranians.
still kinda low-key horrified at Xhitter's attempt to meme regime change in Iran into existence
https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-expected-to-update-its-iranian-flag-emoji-design/
Look, I fully support the right of the Iranian people to freely decide how to run their country. But assuming that protests that ultimately seem to have ended with over 30,000 dead protestors would succeed and that the flag of the new Iranian government would be the same as the one that was deposed in 1979 is pretty ghoulish.
I'm starting to think that the trend started by Sarbanes-Oxley - making it relatively harder to launch an IPO - pushed way too much financing on to private capital, which is basically run by dudes with a very similar outlook. In public markets, you can bet against a company by short-selling, and make money. I believe a lot of the current crop of VC funded companies would have withered a long time ago if they'd been submitted to the scrutiny of public markets.
"We don't hate ourselves. We hate Scott".
"Which Scott?"
"All the Scotts"
what race, motherfucker??
Apparently if you're a self-hating nerd, you're here in Sneerclub's spiritual successor.
Also, here's a quote from a ~~comment~~Xhit non-dead Scott A feels compelled to reprint:
[Coffee With Scott Adams] made it acceptable to be an American, someone who was proud of the country, unashamed of their race; proud of the culture, and proud of the heritage which built the country.
unsurprisingly the Xhitter in question is a rabid anti vaxxer
Belarus is one of the most repressive countries in the world and are rapidly running out of scapegoats for the regimes shitty handling of everything from the economy to foreign relations. It sucks that hams are now that scapegoat.
JFC Roger Ver is still around? I had forgotten about him.
[...] Daniel purchased a pair of AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — the AI-infused eyeglasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made central to his vision for the future of AI and computing — which he says opened the door to a six-month delusional spiral that played out across Meta platforms through extensive interactions with the company’s AI, culminating in him making dangerous journeys into the desert to await alien visitors and believing he was tasked with ushering forth a “new dawn” for humanity.
And though his delusions have since faded, his journey into a Meta AI-powered reality left his life in shambles — deep in debt, reeling from job loss, isolated from his family, and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
“I’ve lost everything,” Daniel, now 52, told Futurism, his voice dripping with fatigue. “Everything.”
all the parallel comments flagged as offtopic lol
Yeah it's very quiet now that the media (and Musk) isn't getting the story they hoped for.
Edit again, I really really wish it hadn't come to this.