That time Shatner owned a smartass sound engineer:
(No, this is not tooted because I heard he passed today or anything! He's getting up there, obvs, but I believe still hanging in strong for us. 94+ birthdays?)
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The hostility of digital elites to expertise
From Jacob Silverman’s Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley loc 999:
They were smart and loyal. Silicon Valley elites tended to dismiss expertise. “Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people,’” according to Marc Andreessen. That attitude provided broad rhetorical and ideological cover for tech moguls to refashion any industry in their image, from taxis to healthcare to real estate to the entire federal government. Their worldview upheld the pretense that creative destruction and technological innovation were synonymous with progress. If expertise was worthless—because the experts themselves represented the corruption of the ancien régime—then tech was a salvific force. And the people leading the tech vanguard were the ones doing the saving.
It took me years to be to write this. That's because it took me years to understand why this is happening. Save yourself the time and let's start figuring out how to deal with this problem.
https://itfossil.com/posts/2025/10/greed-cut-the-throat-of-our-respect-for-expertise/
So its a lazy Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting here in my recliner, a bit stoned, and I have finally decided to write the post that I’ve been dancing around on this blog for awhile now. It won’t be as angry because I’m writing while listening to the Simon and Garfunkel “The Concert in Central Park” LP I picked up while out of town last month. You can’t really be angry while listening to that kind of wonderful harmony.
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