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Andreessen saying the quiet part out loud here. Tech oligarch’s shift to the right was out of fear of their own employees.

Which, how can you think that anything other than collusion happened with the mass tech layoffs? Not just to lower wages, but to kneecap morale.
You can hear this in the interview Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder who has emerged as a major Trump adviser, did with my colleague Ross Douthat. “Companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution,” he said. “The employee base is going feral. There were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies I know felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses by their own employees.” The biggest vibe shift Cowen misses in his list is the anger C.E.O.s — particularly tech C.E.O.s — came to feel toward their own workers and their desire to take back control.
January 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
pittma.bsky.social
I was sick of the guy the first time someone sent me a link to “Arvo”.
Arvo is a purely functional, non-preemptive OS, written in Hoon, that serves as the event manager of your urbit. It can upgrade itself
January 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
pittma.bsky.social
Ahh, yes—playing exactly into the schizo-right conspiracy that all natural disasters are deep-state actions whose teleology is “smart cities”

open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
The future is sustainability. The future is density. The future is managed retreat away from flood zones and wildfire zones, and the movement of all of those people into denser, more compact, urbanized, sustainable neighborhoods. That means more mass transit and fewer cars. More bike lanes and fewer highways. More apartment buildings and fewer lawns.
January 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
pittma.bsky.social
I once stayed at a compound outside of Boise with my wife’s family that had a book by Felix Guattari’s daughter: mitpress.mit.edu/978158435137...

I read it cover-to-cover. The next night I started The Crying of Lot 49. I say this to say that maybe this version of America does exist?
oh to live in Pedro Almodóvar's America, where an AirBnB might just casually have a copy of John Huston's "The Dead" on DVD.
December 2, 2024 at 4:20 AM
pittma.bsky.social
This is the correct take. Millennial scene boys were the original incels.
angry disaffected young men have always been a problem but they used to put on eyeliner and start bands
November 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM