Paul BiggarDec 14, 2023

I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children crying, pulling

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Show threadPaul BiggarDec 14, 2023
In it, I call out my investors who are whitewashing the genocide and promoting Israeli talking points while Israel bombs and murders innocent civilians.
Show threadPaul BiggarDec 14, 2023

Please read and share - I don't want to have torched my career for nothing

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children crying, pulling

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Show threadAnil DashDec 15, 2023
@paulbiggar appreciate you speaking up. Also, I fear you’ll find out what I have — it’s even worse than it seems. You *won’t* have torched your career, because they were already dismissing your sincerely-held beliefs. But speaking your truth is its own reward, and I hope you find peace in it.
Show threadAnil Dash
@paulbiggar like, I called out Andreessen publicly for endorsing colonialism, while sitting on a board with A16Z folks, and…nobody there cared. They see all of the rest of us as either trifles to be ignored or enemies to be destroyed, but they certainly don’t care what we say.
Dec 15, 2023 at 2:22pmWeb
Show threadJeff CraigDec 15, 2023

@anildash @paulbiggar People like that don't really care what you think, as long as they think you can still make them money.

Andreesen and his ilk will have power as long as the Tech Heterodoxy requires that the rest of us beg them for money so we can try and build.

Show threadPaul BiggarDec 15, 2023
@anildash fascinating perspective. Yeah I think this explains a lot of lack of pushback. We're just monkeys to make them money, who really care what the monkeys are saying
Show threadEvan LightDec 24, 2023
@paulbiggar @anildash Seems that is how the richest of the rich live. After all, how many bodies did they have to climb over and up to so elevate themselves? At a minimum, willful ignorance must have been a powerful component (a.k.a. Ignoring and self-deluding when faced by the suffering they cause) in their ascent.
Show threadEvan LightDec 24, 2023

@anildash @paulbiggar I have my own biases here (raised Jewish and living my whole life looking for signs of the next Shoah). And yet I look my ignorance in the face, when supplied contradictory information.

Intellectual honesty seems all too rare these days. It's small wonder that the world is so fucked.

Show threadEvan LightDec 24, 2023

@anildash @paulbiggar For so few to acquire so much, many, somehow, must pay for it.

Statistically, some number of those must pay in blood. Some number do not pay by choice.

Wealth should never be granted at such a cost.