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Need a bookmark feature @bsky.app
May 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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from my upcoming "Era of the Business Idiot" newsletter going out in the next day or two wheresyoured.at
These people are powerful, and have big platforms. They’re people like Derek Thompson, famed co-author of the “abundance” agenda, who celebrates the idea of a fictitious version of ChatGPT that can entirely plan and execute a 5-year-old’s birthday party, or his co-author Ezra Klein, who, while recording a podcast where his researchers likely listened, talked proudly about replacing their work with OpenAI’s broken Deep Research product, because anything that can be outsourced must be, and all research is “looking at stuff that is relevant.” And really, that’s the most grotesque part about Business Idiots. They see every part of our lives as a series of inputs and outputs - they boast about how many books they’ve read rather than the content of said books, about how many hours they work (even though they never, ever work that many), about high level they are in a video game they clearly don’t play, about the money they’ve raised and the scale they’ve raised it at, about how expensive and fancy their kitchen gadgets are - everything is dominance, acquisition, growth and possession over any lived experience, because their world is one where the journey doesn’t matter, because their journeys are riddled with privilege and the persecution of others in the pursuit of success. These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence. They fantasize about hitting a button and something happening, because experiencing - living! - is beneath them, or at least your lives and your wants and your joy are. They don’t want to plan their kids’ birthday parties, they don’t want to research things - they want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy. When you are steeped in privilege and/or have earned everything through a mixture of stolen labor and office pantomime, the idea of “effort” is always negative. The process of creation - or affection, of love, of kindness, of using time not just for an action o…
May 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
kikiscrewedup.bsky.social
Sitting in a Tommy bahama beach chair in the living room right now
May 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
The key to so many of these dudes' reactionary politics is that they can never stop believing that the sorting mechanisms of meritocracy put them on top because they deserved it
moiradonegan.bsky.social Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · May 15
Matt Yglesias endorses the theory that men are naturally more inclined toward extreme intelligence over on the other site.
May 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
kikiscrewedup.bsky.social
Fuck Israel
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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josiahhughes.bsky.social
we need kanye on bluesky!
February 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
kikiscrewedup.bsky.social
I’m getting closer and closer to making the switch the psychic damage inflicted by blue checks on twitter is weighing down my spirit
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 AM
kikiscrewedup.bsky.social
peter griffin from family guy is driving a car and saying long nasal exhale
ALT: peter griffin from family guy is driving a car and saying long nasal exhale
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November 15, 2024 at 12:24 PM