Billionaire chronicles

Another Silicon Valley Tech Bro arrives, riding the latest wave of AI mania.

I wonder if he’ll be able to convert his Tech Bro billions into real billions before ChatGPT drops faster than a Pet Rock?

He’s got the self-absorbed pseudo-profundity down pat, but then, he knows Elon Musk.

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Ooooh, “a rare interview”!

Is there some sort of ceremony I should perform prior to basking in the wisdom of this latest oracle?

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If you’re thinking along the lines of Bacchanalia I’m in.

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And other people.

Accelerator? I think they mean Accelerationist.

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ETA because I can’t post thrice in a row:

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Not long ago, inspired by a story about Twitter blocking an account that tracked and tweeted the location of CEO Elon Musk’s private jet, the tech-savvy young Seattleite set up his own website using publicly available information to track private jets—but for a different purpose.

Shendure wanted to draw attention to the climate footprints of America’s richest individuals and their outsized travel habits. His project, ClimateJets.org, calls out those people and families by name, based on his calculations of the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from their private jet excursions.

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shrek GIF

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Aw man, I really wanted to hate her, but she has some beautiful classic lines. Would love to see her under sail.

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She didn’t choose the tug life, the tug life chose her.

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“417-foot boat”

You can always hate her for being measured in Imperial units. :wink:

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Or because it’s another garish example of what a fucked-up neoliberal kleptocracy the entire world seems headed toward becoming.

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Are you implying that his dinghy is still very small, regardless of the size of his yacht?

@teknocholer How many Jai Alai arenas is that?

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Well, of course. That and the Imperial units.

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Don’t know, but it’s about 0.80 kilodildos (Roman).

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Great…now I have to convert that to Swedish

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Are you suggesting there’s a significant difference?

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Well, it’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it.

The Swedish system uses the width rather than the length

ETA: On topic

It’s pretty small

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I kind of wonder if buying yachts is the thing because they think they can leave on them if civilization collapses. I mean, they keep picking really high maitenance ships, but it wouldn’t be the first time they completed overlooked just how important society is to everything they do.

It could of course always also just be that one guy liked boats, and the rest have literally no ideas for what to do with their money except copying status symbols, like the villain in The Italian Job. :man_shrugging:

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