Swan Oat posted:

Wanamingo posted:

Soylent, just so we're all on the same page, is a food slurry with vitamins randomly thrown in that was invented by a maladjusted techie because he hated having to take time off from work to eat.

Wanamingo posted:

Again, just so we're all on the same page.

Swan Oat posted:

edited to add a few more screenshots

Wanamingo posted:

Again, just so we're all on the same page.

SedanChair posted:

I think we can get this woman fired.

Pando posted:

Just in case she’d been quietly let go, I asked Tunney on Twitter whether she was still employed by Google.

“Why would I quit?” she responded.

Well, yes.

Justine Tunney posted:

Take for instance Silicon Valley and geeks in general. We desperately need an exit from this awful society. But that’s only because:

1. Geeks are diasporic nation that’s been unified by the Internet.
2. We've grown powerful thanks to the tech industry.
3. America is in a uncontrolled nosedive decline.
4. Every nation that currently exists, treats us like garbage.

We don’t fit into this society and we never will. We’re placed in public schools that bore us—when we’re not being assaulted and ridiculed by bullies. We have trouble procreating because society finds us sexually repulsive. We’re ridiculed in the press. We’re unwanted in our communities. Angry kids throw bricks at our buses when we go to work. We’re denied a voice in our government.

Swan Oat posted:

lmaoing

Swan Oat posted:

lmaoing

Forgall posted:

I wonder if Schmidt is even aware she exists?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It's worth having a look at that essay, since the website is loving unreadable by design.

Forgall posted:

I wonder if Schmidt is even aware she exists?

DrProsek posted:

I'd imagine he has to by now, but probably either a) is up his own rear end enough to agree with her and wish he could talk about his plans to enslave the untermensch too, or b) she developed something important 15 years ago and now he can't fire her unless he can train someone else in something only her and two other people know or c) some combination of the previous two, but is also terrified what she will do if he so much as tells her to tone it down.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Do they still have "Don't be evil" as a motto?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It's worth having a look at that essay, since the website is loving unreadable by design.

Justine Tunney posted:

As engineers, we’ve done little other than feed this monster with the social media and communications technologies we create. Plug that feedback loop into Metcalfe’s Law and you end up with a combinatorial explosion of obnoxious ideas, incessant whining, and the bitter politicisation of all parts of life that permeates every crevice of our culture.

Justine Tunney posted:

Come on guys; we’re better than this. There is absolutely no reason why we should have a comparatively poor standard of living when we’re the most productive members of society. In many ways it’s our own fault, since we’ve shown remarkably little initiative in utilising the tremendous power that we wield. Most of us don’t care about power. We want to just sit around writing code all day. We don’t care so much about all the games people play, vying for social rank. We’re eager to ignore all the disrespectful aggressions we experience from other members of society.

Justine Tunney posted:

Normal people love being aggressive and cruel. They love it so much, that they commit microaggressions against others constantly in their everyday social interactions. They do this just to probe others and see if they can get away with even more cruelty. I’m honestly not even sure if half of them are consciously aware of their enactment of this peculiar behavior. It’s as if their brains are hardwired with an algorithm to maximise being a sadistic rotten louse while minimising potential consequences. And what’s worse, is that they lie. They’ll do all those things and then sanctimoniously assert their moral supremacy, just so they can gain more power over you and act crueler yet.

This is seriously what most people are like. Most human beings are completely sick and depraved. Now many of you might be laughing at me for taking the time to demonstrate such an obvious point. But for much of my life, this wasn’t so obvious. The truth about humanity took me 29 years to finally accept. I kept trying to love people, but it only led to me to learning these awful sorts of life lessons over and over again. I clung for so many years to my faith in the goodness of man. I’d interact with all sorts of people, against my better judgement, and pray for more cheerful outcomes. But people just never seemed to stop disappointing me. Eventually I finally accepted the fact that the most men are worthless with souls no better than a clod.

Justine Tunney posted:

Now my dear reader, people like you and me, we probably don’t need powerful authority figures telling us what to do.

Justine Tunney posted:

In many ways, I feel that geeks already rule the world, we just haven’t figured out how to reign. So we need to up our game, get smart, and start asking ourselves what we can do to put the fear in all these people. We need to start retaliating against their aggressions. We must not tolerate their gestures of disrespect. They ought to be kept under our thumb at all times. Eventually their impertinent chicanery will be worn down into obsequious submission. Once that happens, we’ll be able to resume our innately benevolent disposition and be the kind, friendly geeks we always were. Except this time we’ll be deified rather than derided for the exact same behavior.

Justine Tunney posted:

If the patriots were smart, they would have simply demanded their own king. They could have said, “Screw you George! We don’t want to want to be ruled by a dude on the other side of the ocean; America should be ruled by an American.” Had they done that, George Washington could have been crowned, and maybe he could have avoided a war by pledging fealty to King George. Then King George III gets a promotion to Emperor George III. It would have been awesome because the western world would become more powerful, Americans could roll their own government, and no one has to die. Everyone wins.

Justine Tunney posted:

This is something we’ve known since antiquity—democratic systems are always ruled by powerful hidden actors who pull all the strings. I know this to be true, because I myself was the invisible dictator of Occupy.

Justine Tunney posted:

One thing I learned after years of organising within the Occupy Movement, is that when no formal channels exist, everyone starts aggressively vying for power. There wasn’t any cooperation, because every two-bit loser with a sense of entitlement would come down to the park, organise a group of people to sit around in a circle arguing, and then start telling reporters they were the one in charge. Then when they realised that I controlled all the media channels, they’d start fighting me for control! It was awful. I had to spend at least half my time putting down all these micro-rebellions. Time I’d’ve preferred to spend working.

Justine Tunney posted:

But you’d be a fool if you thought they were going after me personally. I’m nobody important. But notice how in every single one of those headlines, there’s the name of a certain company that does nothing but build cool new technologies that they give away for free? Why on earth would reporters want to attack such a happy and benevolent corporation? Why do reporters want money out of politics?

If the productive members of our society who earn money can’t use their money to gain influence in Washington, then it’s the people whose power isn’t derived from money that will rule. That is of course: reporters, social-“science” professors (theologians), NGOs, etc. They’re the clerics of America who tell us what to think. Mencius Moldbug calls them “The Cathedral”. If corporations should ever lose the ability to assert their will upon the people, then The Cathedral will be the only institution of power left standing.

So the answer to these riddles is that reporters are a collective that wants to rule the world. The key word here is collective, since individual reporters don’t actually benefit from exerting power. Most of them are paid a pittance and are lucky if they can afford rent in Brooklyn. Reporters at Vice Media make a salary of $20k/year while working in a freezing office. Huffington Post contributors don’t make anything at all. But money isn’t everything. An austere and impecunious lifestyle didn’t discourage the Catholic clerics of yore. Why should it discourage our modern clergy?

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McPartments will be a global enterprise with an abundance of apartments in every major city around the world. Only six different models of apartments will be offered, and they’ll be built exactly the same everywhere around the world. This is essential for breaking down the cultural barriers which hitherto hath hindered economic development. If you’re an American flying to Shanghai to work for six months, you won’t have to be afraid when you walk outside the airport and see a strange, terrifying, and unfamiliar world. You can rest assured that a comfy McPartment will be waiting for you and it’ll be exactly as you’d expect.

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McPartments will also have a website that makes your apartment a few clicks away. You won’t be forced to go through the corrupt broker cartels that charge $15,000 to show you around Manhattan for six hours. You won’t have to fly across the world just to pick a place. You just click and go to your new home.

So what happens when the cost of relocation asymptotically approaches zero? Corporations become more productive and social relationships become more ephemeral. Production flourishes, the singularity gets nearer, and civilisation decays.

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Why does civilisation decay? It’s because in a globalised world of McPartments, you won’t be able to find a job unless you’re willing to leave your friends, family, and everything you’ve ever loved behind. Sure, they could move with you rather cheaply. But they might like it where they currently live. But don’t worry, you’ll still be able to get plenty of face-time on Google Hangouts.

Shifty Pony posted:

Well she is twittering those abhorrent opinions on company time so that would be a nice cause for termination. Alternatively tech workers aren't unionized so Google could just fire her due to at will employment laws.

Stupid Incarnate posted:

Sure, they could move with you rather cheaply.

blowfish posted:

Revolting.

Munkeymon posted:

I tried a co-worker's and it's really not bad - it's just like the most bland protein shake you've ever had/can imagine. I'd probably get something to flavor it if I had to use it.

Pornographic Memory posted:

Tunney should be paraded around for an anti-bullying campaign. Just let her talk and afterward go, "look, if you bully people, you're gonna make more assholes like this. Be cool to other people so they grow to become cool people and not Justine Tunneys." Somebody made fun of her for being a nerd in high school and she never got over it even though she works for Google and has pretty much Made It in life now.