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tech people need to find more ways to get money than from a bunch of coked up fascists who think they're going to live forever on mars. could you imagine how much cool shit we could be working on

@chrisisgr8 You say "hire me" but casually looking I can't find any info for what.

Like, if you're serious put a link to a cv or skillset or something?

@chrisisgr8 “fraud” is already on the list

@chrisisgr8 NFTs qualify as “fraud”

@chrisisgr8 thats not rhe fraud listing?

@chrisisgr8 isn't that just 'fraud' ?

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@chrisisgr8 isn't that just fraud?

@chrisisgr8 I assumed that was included in “fraud”

@chrisisgr8 don't worry, nobody else remembers them as well

@chrisisgr8 wasn't the wrongness generator 3000?

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@chrisisgr8 Give yourself more credit, you mentioned fraud.

@chrisisgr8 NFTs comfortably fit in a niche of "wrongness generator 3000" + "fraud".

@chrisisgr8 it’d help if so many tech people’s goals weren’t secretly to join the coked up fascists.

I wish more people wanted to become thousandaires instead.

@chrisisgr8 I think the central allure of "look you could be lesser nobility if we, the actual nobility, think you have something we want" is quite strong for most people. It's basically what everyone calls the american dream, which is extra ironic because a lot of folks in the US hate nobility (even though their entire upper class *is* nobility in all but name)

Edit: You are absolutely right. Should have led with that

@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?

@chrisisgr8 @Matt5sean3 you know that was just to justify creating ICBMs right?

@chrisisgr8 This would be so much easier if anyone but the coked up fascists had any money

@chrisisgr8 I am already working on cool shit but the problem is only one person gives me money because of it and he's broke too.

@chrisisgr8 i wish more tech people got funding from arts departments

@chrisisgr8 you could also just... make stuff. Retvrn to the days of making stuff in your garage, the tools are more accessible than ever.

@chrisisgr8 I read a thing somewhere once about how our greatest minds are just working on how to get people to click ads. That really put things in perspective.

@chrisisgr8 was at a session at a conference with @pahlkadot today where she mentioned shes not too concerned about govt not being able to attract digital talent. There is so much important, impactful work to be done in the public sector.

@chrisisgr8 this is litearlly my life and it burns how hard it is to get people to realise (a) most people spend almost all day on the computer (b) the charity/community sector spends almost no money or energy working on how to make this somewhat better, its so grim

@chrisisgr8 Most of the good apps have already been written. They aren't looking for apps to help people, they're looking for large demographics to disrupt and take the money that's there. It's a morality-free act of domestic imperialism that makes the railroad land barons seem merely opportunistic.

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- Bus, but shitty.

@chrisisgr8 subway but for cars

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VC itself is the problem. The only things that make sense for this entire pump and dump industry of hucksters is stupid bullshit that sounds cool and hypable, but is ultimately useless and unmeasurable in real return on investment terms. Forget making real stuff that would actually benefit the world because then who could they screw over and leave holding the bag?

@chrisisgr8 In the age of greed stagnation of ideas and creativity is everywhere.

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-push wrongness generator 3000 bots to every possible service and job ever made (whether or not it's actually useful or necessary)
-get people to buy and promote (functionally worthless) nft's for (hopefully) a massive profit!!

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if "wrongness generator" is LLMs,

bear in mind government is looking at facilitating regulatory capture for that.

*someone* thinks they have enough potential not to let citizens finetune & run their own.

@chrisisgr8 oh come on, dont be like this, they still have 6 more full years to best themself. This is just the tip, if it hurt already, get ready for the shaft

@chrisisgr8 -a "seastead", but it's actually just a rubber dinghy full of crypto miner rigs and a diesel generator

@chrisisgr8 Geniuses, everyone of them. I mean they’re so rich and so white and so male and…

@chrisisgr8 I'm old as fuck and tech layoffs were around in the 80s so that's nothing new. Also the whole "thing is bad because it uses more energy than a small country" is getting old. Data centers and the internet exceed that power consumption metric, nobody says anything about that. Also technologies start out power intensive and then innovation reduces the power load. .e.g. CPUs. The Gartner hype chart is great for plotting out how technologies go from cool ideas to being over hyped.

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Teens

-you pay us to give us your genetics and we sell it to some semi reputable people. When we go bankrupt it's anyone's for 5 cents on the dollar

-vid chat to a random new "friend" who may (probably) or may not be masturbating

-concentrated shelf-safe juice

-a watch that can tell you if you're still breathing and have a heartbeat. Can't diagnose or predict cardiopulmonary conditions.

-every electrical appliance can tell you the weather forecast, stock quote, or sports score

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@chrisisgr8 I want to make [random selection from the list above], this time with micropayments.

@chrisisgr8 innovation that excites

@chrisisgr8 Disrupters gotta Disrupt.