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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

ugh.

went down a rabbit-hole about Marc Andreesen that took a detour into Jeffrey Epstein's MIT bribe-money, his rape ranch in New Mexico, and his dreams of a bespoke master race with his DNA. stories of bespoke billionaire futures brought me back to Andreessen and this 2014 effort to peddle his transhuman eugenics bullshit before he called it #techOptimism

"The tech industry's God complex is getting out of control | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2014/06/13/the_tech_industrys_god_complex_is_getting_out_of_control/

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

BTW
welcome to dystopia 2023

"How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality | Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

"There are two schools of thought about this that interest me: the transhumanists waiting for the coming technological Rapture, broadly represented by Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil; and an offshoot represented by Marc Andreessen and other venture capitalists burning capital to develop and reign over the infrastructure, markets, and regulations that could constrain their innovations."

"Silicon Valley’s Quest to Build God and Control Humanity | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence/

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

"...libertarians of the type attached to Flannery have labored under the delusion that private enterprise is better at providing public services and infrastructure than the government. There’s pretty much zero evidence to support this belief, but Bay Area billionaires—many of whom have spent their entire lives benefiting from government subsidies and handouts—still persist in perpetuating it just the same"

Silicon Valley Tech Moguls Want to Build a New City in California
https://gizmodo.com/michael-moritz-reid-hoffman-flannery-associates-land-bu-1850780238

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

"This putative titan of industry has spent the past week tweeting about how he and some of his fellow billionaires are less powerful than one might think [...] “The elite ruling class in our society is based on power, way more than money,” Andreessen tweeted over the weekend, perhaps from one of his several mansions. “Our oligarchic elite ruling class freaks out about Elon precisely to the degree they think he’s not onboard with their program.”

"Pity the Billionaire"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/pity-the-billionaire-marc-andreessen-edition.html

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