James GleickFeb 8

I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.

Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.

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@gleick

The Bill Gates reality-distortion field is a persistent one, his PR people are very good at what they do.

I keep getting warm fuzzies about him every now and again. He keeps recreating himself, like a rock-star re-styling.

Then a memory or new fact drops, and I remember he's a greedy, ruthless, devious, self-serving thug.

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@megatronicthronbanks @gleick Back in the last century there was a little documentary comparing him to STeve JObs and ... they were both manipulative greedy thiieves but Steve Jobs was a little crazier with wanting to take over the world.
The damage he's done to education is the part I feel directly.
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@geonz @gleick Oh hang on, was that the docudrama 'Pirates Of Silicon Valley' ? - that was a really good movie.
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@megatronicthronbanks @gleick I don't remember!!! Perhaps!