Ha ha Ted Kacynski what a weird modernity-hating freak. Anyway, back to this tech billionaire who killing children with his robot-car alpha tests and turning a virtual town square into a incel klan rally
@Popehat there’s much to be said about modernity, but I guess most of us can agree that his hate was very much directed towards the wrong groups of people.
@Popehat Less sarcastically, cyberpunk was not supposed to be a blueprint for the future.

@eridyn
@Popehat

Gentlemen, I must respectfully decline your proffered dystopian futures due to the distinct lack of Mad Max cars and cyberspurs, respectively. I firmly believe we are crafting a fully functional dystopia for ourselves, not some discount version. Please do better.

@Popehat Elon: "Unabomber might have been right, actually"

Also Elon: *continues doing everything the Unabomber hated*

@north_easton @Popehat You forget, for someone like him it’s always “okay for me, but not for thee”
@innuendo @north_easton @Popehat Elon seems primarily and universally opposed to the proposition that all should have equal rights.
@north_easton @Popehat I'm pretty sure Elon Musk would have been Ted's absolute worst enemy.
@Popehat im picturing, like, a 50s era retro style art deco pastel infomercial with that 50s announcer voice and delivery, talking about how hes singlehandedly carrying humanity into the future or something. "sponsored by SMOKING!"
@Popehat Gotta break a few eggs. Rule 1 of Techbro capitalism: use someone else’s eggs.

@waterluvian @Popehat We blame techbros for this, and they deserve a lot of blame here, but Harvard Business School defined entrepreneurship as "using resources that do not belong to you", framed as "entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled".
Maybe the rot goes a little deeper?

https://hbr.org/2013/01/what-is-entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Being clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise.

Harvard Business Review
@Popehat The grievous tragedy of Elon Musk lies in his being surrounded by people who have less money than he does.
https://youtu.be/TeC5-5idyzY
Lonely at the Top (Remastered)

YouTube
@Popehat Nice clever joke Mr. Hat. Once I’m done chortling I’m going to throw up and crawl into my bed and hide.

@Popehat

Me, responding from 2015:

"What the heck are you guys DOING in the 20s?!?"

@me

@Popehat has anyone checked in on Blake Masters today? He could probably use a shoulder to awkwardly mimic crying on.
@Popehat I feel like Musk is a couple years away from saving his pee in jars and wearing tissue boxes on his feet
@trekologer @Popehat Or building his own militia to take over a small African country :(
@Popehat I was actually in the room several times with the bomb that Kaczynski mailed to Boeing. The package was misplaced and not opened for some reason. When it was eventually opened, the batteries were dead. LE detonated it out in a field some time after that.
@Popehat It now turns out Kaczynski might have killed himself in prison. Has anyone checked the videotapes of his cell?
@Popehat I’m sad he was apparently motivated to & able to kill himself in that facility. That’s inhumane.

@Popehat dont forget all the animals killed for neura-link and i think i heard he still somehow got approved for human trials for it?

Even if he didnt. Still fucked up that he juet murdered so many animals

@Popehat Ted K. killed someone I know. Now Elon is killing my favorite social hub.
@Popehat If only Elon had liked cabins . . .
@Popehat @GreenFire nice to see you more active on the non-Incel plaform :)
@Popehat incel klan rally is about right
@Popehat Actually the unabomber didn't really hate modernity. He hated the usage of it by government for fascist purposes. I'm not saying that he's a good and decent human being by any stretch because innocent lives were impacted by his crusade. But in the depths of his own mental illness lay a brilliant mind. Imagine if treatment for mental illness wasn't still lingering in a 19th century modality. We might be looking at a whole different history.
@Popehat Ted needed to read some Murray Bookchin
@Popehat Musk allies with Putin, Bonesaw, and other tyrants. He's not from America and he's a spoiled rich brat. Like his buddies.
@Popehat I don’t have the numbers at hand, Unabomber deaths vs Tesla autopilot....

@Popehat
Live your life in such a way that some misanthropic crank living off-grid in a cabin doesn't see you as sufficiently briiliant that he can stave off The Dark Future by mailing you a bomb.

Or, live your life the opposite way, but don't open your mail.

@Popehat within you there are two wolves

they are both fascists lol