Has he done anything but blog, microblog and lispturbate since he sold his E Commerce site?
Evinceo
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Techbro was originally used to describe the type of men who made it difficult for women in tech, then somewhere along the line the general public realized the same dudes were also making it difficult for lots if people in lots of places.
If tech folks never actually acted like frat bros, the bro appellation never would have happened. I've worked in offices with Kegs cor crissakes.
Least annoying A/B test.
This guy's idea of thermodynamics is basically... he thinks that speed running universal heat death is... the highest calling of life?
Kinda the slowest and least exciting way to annihilate the universe, but it seems to exist mostly to justify irresponsible energy use.
Be careful, one us might escape the confines your imagination.
Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
I genuinely wonder if years of training one's self to be "rational" makes you forget how fundamental stories are to the human experience. Journalists write stories about real life, for good or ill. If something happens in real life but isn't a story, it doesn't get printed. "Random lady plagiarized her thesis" is not a story, but "lady related to major plagiarism story also plagiarized her thesis" is a story.
His observation that EA suddenly got piled on is missing a more subtile point: lots of the coverage of EA was probably an extension of the tech beat and thus benefitted from the access journalism and rosey-glasses'd that was rampant in the early aughts before a more critical eye was cast in the last few years. Tech Won't Save Us does a good job explaining the phenomenon (ctrl+f "access" in the transcript) in part of its Musk series.
Scott is to Journalists as other Scott is to Women.
I actually didn't recognize the name (or I would have made a big deal out of it in the OP) but this being the CRT guy tracks.
I can't believe you targeted him 🎯 by googling his name and finding out he's eugenicist scum.
(Seriously, thanks for slogging through the comments to find gems like this.)
<Captioned image of Miyazaki: Computer was a mistake -- Alan Turing>