β€œBut now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

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#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

β€œHow could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

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#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

lol, this is so true. Whatever happened to the 'Silicon Roundabout?'

#NathanBarley #SiliconRoundabout #OldStreet #London

> the lore wants it that a powerful tech executive alighted at Old Street station, commented that it smelled like piss and hightailed back to their West London office, never to come back.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/silicon-roundabout-tech-city-property

#SiliconRoundabout

How London’s Silicon Roundabout dream turned into a nightmare

Politicians thought they could create a new Silicon Valley in London’s East End. But they ended up making things bigger, not better