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  • Sep 3, 2026, 11:15 PM

    The real villain of the #tech sector, and capitalism in general, is self-awareness. Marc Andreessen blurted it out openly: he refuses to have any second thoughts, any reflection, any introspection. He wishes to act solely upon his basest impulses and appetites—that is surely a common sentiment among the technological elite. They have been conditioned into regarding all their impulses as freedom itself: to stand in the way of Elon Musk's or Marc Andreessen's impulses is to be a hater and saboteur of greatness. Second thoughts are obstacles to acting on pure impulse, hence Andreessen and the others attempt to banish them from their lives by any possible means. They strive to purge their existence of "negativity".

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  • Sep 3, 2026, 11:19 PM

    Hence it's not really possible any longer for them to grasp that the people have gotten wise to computers, skeptical of the magical claims, and very weary of decades of inflated promises from one #tech sector hype-master or another. They cannot go back to the time when the general public was so easy to bamboozle with #software. Any such acknowledgement of the changed circumstances would be "negativity" or "FUD".

    But they can try. They can try real hard, with the help of their Republican friends in government, to bring the dead past back to a ghastly simulacrum of renewed life.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen

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