tech gossip 2022-12.5? in december? well i guess

Tech Industry Gossip December.5 2022

here we go again

late breaking news

we start off this batch at the current moment when twitter is in the middle of dropping ban hammers on everybody.

so pg decides to link to an external site…

lol goobye, and still shilling for future-musk on the way out (because the VC code is “you can never say anything bad about rich people who may acquire your failed startups in the future”, also see pg’s unwavering fealty to facebook in the face of every illegal action they’ve taken because FB loves to buy failed YC startups at inflated irrational exit prices)

then it got picked up on HN as “pg quits twitter!”

this is true though. the worst image management pg ever did was commenting on HN (then twitter) in real time because it quickly outed him as “not really all that thoughtful” as he appeared through his online writing which was seemingly directly organized around manipulating young men into “becoming founders” so he could take percentages off the top as passive wealth gains for the least actual work possible.

musk is such a serial scammer our tiny human brains can’t even remember it all — at musk’s first “startup” (“the yellow pages, but ONLINE!”) he actually built a false computer to show investors how “big” they were — he took a regular computer and built a metal box 8x larger than the computer itself as a case just to look “impressive” to the investors (which is actually just outright fraud too, but it hasn’t stopped! thiel-aligned Palantir even just had tons of their friends sit in an office so they could lie to investors about how big the company was during due diligence walkthroughs)

then, mega LOL, his account got suspended outright.

notice the 1.5M followers… this will come into play shortly again!

when you’ve lost the crypto wizards you know it’s bad

then… pg’s account comes back, but look all his followers are gone lol. from 1.5M back to zero all in an hour (it was slowly climbing back up in real time which appears to be somebody at twitter manually re-populating DB entries… this account was back to 1M followers last I checked)

when you least expect it, mamma musk appears

a weird thing is mamma musk thinks she’s an online influencer an can “sic her son” on people or flag things like she’s queen of the world.
here she’s amplifying some weird “if journalists don’t do what we say, we will directly abuse them until they agree” viewpoint.

pretty sure “aim higher and do it faster” was a voice assistant mishap during a sunday bang bang

fraud, FRAUD? fraud.

remember during the 2016 and 2020 elections how combinations of russia and republicans had over a million online amplification bots (lol remember the official Tennessee GOP account which ended up being just one huge russia operation)? so yeah, if you create a block list of all online mal-actors, that’s considered “no value” because you found their secret fraud so it’s “socially illegal” to expose them now.

mmm the smell of your own farts in the morning

remember: only you can save the future of 100,000,000,000,000 humans so nothing else matters except your own power structure

speedrunnning the collapse of society one kook at a time

that “tom fitton” weirdo is a combination real world nobody but online republican wacko who is primarily infatuated with his own image (plastic surgery obsessed, steroids en masse) and is basically an embodied repub/russian bot (so of course he’s now like 20% of musk’s online interactions).

unite the right

farts smell like flowers to musk

it was also reported recently twitter will soon demand 100% real time location tracking in the app to better “serve ads related to your interests” (probably under the pretense of more “bot crackdown” or something too because nobody has ever found a way to manipulate mobile devices at scale for nefarious purposes).

a new phrase is coined

honestly, “assassination coordinates” should be the new word of the year. i’m going to use it for describing location sharing exclusively from now on. (also this likely outs musk as experiencing concrete paranoid delusions due to his years of heavy “recreational” drug use enabled by his money factories which always turns out well, right?)

good summary of the current state of the world

make gays hetero-normative again with “marriage,” ignore the dying children, capitalist destruction of everything nice.

remember when we regulated “industrialists” and monopolists and oligarchs?

“only I can save the universe”

ego + drugs + unchecked financial fraud == delusions of godhood

the dog money is off the rails

musk also spends about 20% of his twitter time reply to dog money for some reason

if you haven’t noticed, github has EEE’d git into a corner

github has turned into “repo hosting as an authoritarian service” to such an extent many companies are *required* to use the github web UI for code changes and can’t manage their development using commandline-only tools anymore (due to things like “PR approval required” or “locked branches” or integrated CI actions).

wwwoke up

fun fact: republican “flood the zone with shit” agitators intentionally manipulated meanings of academic terms like “critical race theory” and “woke” to become meaningless generic anti-left talking points as coalescing anger trigger words. All those terms have actual academic meanings nobody even tries to use anymore.

job growth opportunities in the obesiety industry

what part of “I AM GOD” do you not understand?

more “I actually live a trillion years into the future, so everything I do must have a hyper-exponential impact because only I alone can save the future from the woke mind virus creating things like ‘equality’ or ‘non-quadrillions’”

do they know we can see them?

it’s like watching an episode of rugrats where toddlers plan to take over the house. also *how dare you* use the precious word *voluminous!* that’s our word you aren’t allowed to use it!

there’s some snow in your ears

remember the whole snowden leaks where it proved every tech company was required to provide real time user data to the NSA? nah, everything must fit into the FOX NEWS WOKE FBI MIND VIRUS situation box now.

russia russia russia

the hyper-right reality disconnected people love to ignore the million russia-trump aligned amplification bots. you’d have fully anonymous accounts like “MAGA_KING_8383298191” grow to 300,000 twitter followers in 2 weeks due to “bot follower brigades” directly coordinated on twitter (whereas accounts of *actual* humans existing would take years to reach even 1k followers unless they were either niche or mega celebs).

inside baseball

typical high society fraud speak: “my friends are pure of heart, my enemies are 100% evil and should all just die.”

the cruciatus tweet

this is just unforgivable and there’s no excuse for supporting anything tech-hitler-lite touches anymore.

what’s the collective noun for a summoning of dumbasses?

this is an interesting historical artifact because everybody communicating in this thread is a known fraud (okay, i’m not sure lex is a fraud, but he’s 100% fraud-adjacent via his penchant to be gazing up the colon of every tech fascist out there plus people generally watch his videos on like 8x speed just to make him sound even remotely alive).

a greatness is formed

okay, this is one of the greatest self-owns i’ve seen in a while.

pg is always obsessed with ideas of “the singular great man” whose success requires no other attribution other than your own genetic greatness (yc is basically just a huge “economic eugenics” machine), but sometimes he rake steps so hard everybody dunks on him until he cries (just kidding, he’s not capable of actual introspective judgment, he only expresses disagreement through “essays” because clearly if you write something on a webpage, you can never be wrong).

LIMIT CASE — gotta get that patented “excessive technical math/physics/computer terms into casual conversations” condescension going.

pg calvinball: pg is never wrong, so if you disagree, you “don’t understand” or “aren’t smart” or are an “angry fool” or are “bad faith” commenting.

this line of questioning has been going around for years: VCs continually say “AI can’t replace VCs because VCs are the smartest divergent opportunity-finding people on the planet! no computer can do what we do!” … don’t worry, the FTX section is next.

in the industry, we call this a “dunkaroo”

the trillion year timeframe continues

tons of low information tech people truly believe in the whole “we must destroy the world today to ensure a better future for our millions of billions of future children”

apple music karaoke

it’s almost like they aren’t ashamed of being frauds

what’s the point in work and ethics when all the rich people got there illegally anyway?

Sapir–Whorf explaining why nobody can imagine better cities

“it’s impossible to put housing next to services! housing must be a 3 hour walk away from all shops! it’s just how the world was made!”

kill it with fire

the “dumbification” of developers has been going on for 20+ years and shows no signs of slowing down. If you don’t care about the actual underlying technology, just leave the industry — you’re only causing damage by expanding your sphere of willful ignorance into the future.
everytime someone online says “i’m a developer, not a sysadmin! i don’t care about networks or operating systems or storage!” just look and see how their companies are overpaying AWS by a couple million a year because they don’t know how anything actually works.

finally a solution: stop talking to everybody

we hear you and we see you (even when you’re sleeping)

how not to openai

you’ll never get hired at a trillion dollar AI incubator with that mindset!

spoilers

these are reverse-chronology snapshots, so this will be relevant further down the page when we encounter RANDO TWITTER MUSK SYCOPHANT TWEETER

cmake man vs ai man who wins nobody knows

it da tru tru if you’ve ever tried to build all of llvm directly

you do tha hacks? YOU GETS THE CLAMPS

it’s both comedy and tragedy how people show they are working around systems in public combined with not realizing the people owning the systems are reading all the workarounds and restricting them in real time

housing crisis? who cares! just make all buildings 1-story and throw an ikea in the middle.

who needs thought when you can just repeat lies

if anything, the NYT is a republican psyop masquerading as “liberal” because they do basically 100% hit pieces towards democrats while also promoting the image rehab of as many republicans as possible, but sure, LIBERAL NYTIMES meme triggers the right so it’s a manipulation shortcut.

more people to ban from development

who cares about ethics and privacy? EVERYBODY LIES AND STEALS AND TRACKS! if we don’t LIE AND STEAL AND TRACK we can’t keep up!

they literally can’t understand why global user non-informed-consent tracking is unethical if not outright illegal.

if you fraud a fraudster, who was the victim?

ai blockchain from 2016 wants their memes back

we need space probes to kill alien dinos

it’s an interesting thought i also had for a while: the dinosaurs had to die for humans to evolve. what if there are billions of planets in the universe covered in kinda dumb megafauna in a long term 100+ million year steady state, but the smarter smaller species can’t exploit their niches because of the size oppression?
we basically need space probes to detect alien worlds with megafauna and extinct-ify them, then check back in another 60 million years to see what changed.

what’s up with all the fake accounts

musk also spends about 20% of his twitter time replying to this “Whole Mars Catalog” account which, for what I can tell, is just an alt account for Musk or his direct interests he runs himself?

death to landlords

a recent investigation showed thousands of apartment owners are using “RealPage” as a centralized market-manipulation clearing house where they all coordinate their rate hikes in addition to *encouraging extended rental vacancy* to keep rents high on more attractive units.
also this “RealPage” acts as a backdoor social credit system where apartments can report you to a private centralized (but non-credit-reporting) database, then all other large apartments will check your “shadow references” against the private company records when you apply.

we need to destroy private equity / REIT / corporate landlord monopolies soon. they found a way to treat millions of humans as investment vehicles as a primary goal instead of providing quality living spaces as a primary goal (so their actual primary goal is always “reduce services” combined with “maximizing rental prices” which also includes advocating for low or zero growth polices as much as possible too)

turn in your developer card

another entry in the “technical people don’t care about anything technical except their own egos” collection

the sleepy mind virus

exponential growth until the last star burns out

doomed: doooooooooooooooooomed

it’s really not in the common social shared reality how far beyond the “last survivable climate cutoff” we are living these days. there’s no saving the planet, there’s only minimizing impact from 5 billion people dying to maybe 3 billion eventually.

police ticketing as a service

driving around a school bus stop sign is both illegal and potentially deadly. it’s not a game.

when you see post, repost

always love the cult list. it applies to so many things in modern monopolist-ego-bound life cycles.

of course

there’s law, LAW, then you get the polonium soup (obligatory: in soviet russia, soup delivers you)

hadn’t noticed my building had a “NO TOURS AFTER DARK” rule. they are so paranoid about people murdering their leasing agents. nobody cares about you, carl, you’re not important enough to even have your name remembered, chuck. (so apparently this means in december, even though the office is open until 6pm, they just stop working at 4pm when it gets dark?)

we (heart) cox

one of my favorite personal web capacity stories: i wanted to check the weather before going out to class in the morning, so i try to load weather.cnn.com and it just doesn’t respond. i try to reload it a couple times, but it just doesn’t work. maybe the internet is down? so i just wear a jacket anyway. then i get to class and hear people talking about the pentagon? and something about new york? yeah, cnn was down because it was the morning of 9/11 and this was 2001 so web servers ran off improperly load balanced 90 MHz servers with no caches running live java renders for each page.
still, to this day, if a news site doesn’t respond, i start to get a little paranoid and begin loading as many other news sites as i can just to verify the world isn’t ending.

oh, did you mean ASSASSINATION COORDINATES?

lol what a bunch of losers who think IPs matter or even mobile devices can’t spoof their locations either

we’ve all been there

only staff engineers know about the *cyberhex*

imagine being “the main guy” with a fractured mind you can’t even see

we do love long form youtube content from passionate people
also this one is basically 100% about what elon musk if he were a video game guy — toxic compulsive liar narcissist syndrome en masse

be gay, do crimes

post-cloud, pre-enlightenment

one of the highest value tech consulting opportunities these days is un-fucking “cloud native” companies who think they don’t need operations departments. these companies have no idea how security/networking/storage/latency/throughput/upgrades/compliance/logging/capacity planning all work together in optimized computational harmony.
you can bill over $100k/month by saving companies $200k/year then move on to the next bundle of “cloud native” unfuckery. slurp slurp.

i want to go to there

living the dream. nanoseconds can suck it.

pre-hair-transplant elon always the best elon

musk is concerned with his genetic superiority by running shadow “breed all the musk genes” operations (in reality he likely plans to have upwards of a million descendants in less than 100 years), but he couldn’t even deal with his own broken lineage without plastic surgery to satisfy his own ego.
but this a QT of the NEXT SECTION so look down for more sycophantic drivel!

as promised: MORE SYCOPHANTIC DRIVEL

here’s a weird thread by an ex-musk acolyte who got exited from “the inner circle” but they want to sniff his duodenum so much they are writing their own little Sequoia-inspired -graphy here.

Nothing really new in these, but it’s amazing to watch unhinged people debase themselves at the expense of others because they think it’ll give them better chances at doing an end-run around having to build out their own life/career if they can just suckle billionaire teats a little longer.