https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmXghC9WAAAfbrU.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 2 July 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
http://toyworth.com/browse/Knight/2000/Crash/Set/action/figure//1983//Knight/Rider/Accessories/100/lrg-packaged-front.jpg
― salthigh, Saturday, 2 July 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
Rex: I was still young enough that I wanted to have a, like, a party hangout kind of life, and Seattle…seemed interesting at the time, but man, I just kept meeting people that — I always say it’s a city that has product managers who want to be vice presidents.
Paul: Ooof.
Rex: Like it’s a lot of, just…
Rich: Wow.
Paul: [wounded noise]
Rex: A lot of Amazon people…
Rich: That’s a rough tagline for Seattle tourism right there.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
they're easy to spot and avoid tho
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
caek, what is that from
― ejemplo (crĂĽt), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
sorry https://trackchanges.postlight.com/podcast-20-rex-sorgatz-the-other-side-of-fate-2151da51f998#.ivs4e4udy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
hey I know that Paul Ford guy, was at his wedding and everything
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
what?!
― mh, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm surprised at the connection, but mostly surprised you aren't commenting on a thread about his wedding saying that you didn't go but heard it was a bad ceremony
― mh, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
he married the woman who officiated my own wedding. we aren't best buds or anything, but his wife is an old college friend of mine
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnCBn18VMAAfqhw.jpg
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 July 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZeqyR0o.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
Benioff is one of the least terrible though
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Like, he actually uses some of his money & influence on actual progressive political causes in the real world, he's not trying to invent Utopia in a west coast bunker and export it to the rest of us dummies
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:33 (eight years ago) link
Yeah he's ok w me
Tweet was inappropriate but its undeniable social media has been crucial un bringing this issue wide attention
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
he is sorry
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Source?
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it
― goole, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah idk look at LBI's image
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnXjMNOUsAAztY1.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 July 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
idk what 'expensify' is but they do realize the Lord of the Flies was a rotting pig's head on a stick, right?
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
oddly enough, so is the ceo of expensify
― mh, Friday, 15 July 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
should we have a thread for Sourpuss Valley techno-dystopianism?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/pokemon-go-invasion-oliver-stone-snowden-surveillance/
It manipulates your behaviour. It has happened already quite a bit on the Internet, but you’ll see it everywhere—you'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society, where they will know how you want to behave and they will make the mockup that matches how you behave and feed you. It’s what they call totalitarianism.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 July 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
lol the promos for that oliver stone snowden film look horrible
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
I enjoy the work of Joseph Gordon-Levitt but hearing him do that monotone "I do very important work" voice made me shake my head
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Seems relevant, in terms of mocking SV shit:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/magazine/the-oppressive-gospel-of-minimalism.html
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
the author retweeted this which is definitely an early stage homeware startup look right now
https://twitter.com/333333333433333/status/759038739951788032
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
I think that's the shade of pink that BUTT uses
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
He now carries nothing but a bag of clothes and a backpack containing a computer, an iPad and a smartphone. “I have zero other possessions,” he writes
Other than clothing and all of the world's knowledge, information, communications channels and entertainment at my fingertips, I have no possessions.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
that's all I took on vacation and while I was surviving, I really missed my shit
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
scratch that, I just had the iPad and phone in one bag and clothes in another. even then, I kept accumulating magazines and books and more shit. I am an expert shit-acquirer
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
all of the world's knowledge, information, communications channels and entertainment
vast amounts of this are not on the internet but sure
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
no, it's all there. you just haven't found it yet.
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
so how about that Peter Thiel, living off the blood of youth? what a guy
“I don’t hold onto all the things society tells me to hold onto.”
deal_with_it.gif
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 1 August 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
"i want to live on a barge in the ocean, with other libertarians.""huh ok.""forever. i need blood."
― goole, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
wait was is this blood thing about
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
Google it.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 1 August 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
surprised the Soylent guy's escapades in "experimental housing" didn't make it to this thread yet
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Peter Thiel is Dracula
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, August 1, 2016 3:59 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Obv did not mean that literally, just kind of lol @ people who are like "I only travel with clothing and an iphone and ipad" when that's the equivalent of traveling with many libraries' worth of books and periodicals, maps, directories, music and movies, etc.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
yeah if you can get any fuckin' wifi that doesn't suck
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
I only travel with a sock to hide my genitals and a CB radio
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 1 August 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
and a bigass antenna for the CB
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
I guess you could put that in the sock, too
idk if this is the right thread but the combination of start-up / new tech and complete gullibility around Theranos is fascinating and points to a wider issue around disruptive technology that sounds amazing but doesn't actually work.
Elizabeth Holmes' chutzpah is remarkable:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/elizabeth-holmes-presentation-theranos-data
From a paywalled FT article:
“It is a bait and switch,” said Dr Geoffrey Baird, an associate professor of laboratory medicine at the University of Washington. “We were told we were going to hear about the science of Theranos, but this is a new speculative prototype idea.”“What we just saw was BS,” he added. “It is not the device they used clinically, and we saw nothing that tells us that these assays are valid or even safe for patients.”John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, Ms Holmes’ alma mater, said the presentation was “better than nothing” but bemoaned the fact that the company still had not produced any peer-reviewed research.
“What we just saw was BS,” he added. “It is not the device they used clinically, and we saw nothing that tells us that these assays are valid or even safe for patients.”
John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, Ms Holmes’ alma mater, said the presentation was “better than nothing” but bemoaned the fact that the company still had not produced any peer-reviewed research.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 08:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler?currentPage=all
What exactly happens in the machines is treated as a state secret, and Holmes’s description of the process was comically vague: “A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.” She added that, thanks to “miniaturization and automation, we are able to handle these tiny samples.”
Board members are clearly charmed by Holmes. She is a careful listener, and she is unnervingly serene; employees say that they can’t remember an instance when she raised her voice. “She has sometimes been called another Steve Jobs, but I think that’s an inadequate comparison,” Perry, who knew Jobs, said. “She has a social consciousness that Steve never had. He was a genius; she’s one with a big heart.”
Kissinger advised Holmes to concentrate on building up Theranos in the U.S. before launching it in developing nations, he said, so that “it would not look like we were experimenting on them.”
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
Theranos has been a busted flush for a while - there's a great article from Vanity Fair from May (and one from Wired from last year) excoriating the expansion of silicon valley tech press breathlessness to medical matters (I thought I read about it on here, but I guess not?)
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/05/theranos-silicon-valley-media
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/theranos-scandal-exposes-the-problem-with-techs-hype-cycle/
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
iirc theranos had some licensing revoked and it's valued lower than their outstanding debts
― mh, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Yep, went from being valued at $9bn to practically zero within a few weeks and Holmes has a two year ban on operating a lab pending.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 12:51 (eight years ago) link