PG: SV cooled on Democrats due to Wokeness and Warren appointees

4 points by bickfordb 5 months ago | 20 comments
  • basementcat 5 months ago
    What’s his Venmo so I can send him £5 so his feelings won’t be hurt? https://x.com/paulg/status/1882901922686074942
    • sympil 5 months ago
      He really should stick to tweeting about programming and startups. He appears to think that his expertise in computer science makes him insightful in areas he knows nothing about. He doesn’t know the sociology of “Silicon Valley”.

      He ought not state things authoritatively without studies to back him. In his experience it is as he said but his experience is hardly normative or conclusive.

      • smgit 5 months ago
        Don't worry people will "cool" on him too.

        Its the inevitable end state when you give anyone a mic and allow them to broadcast to the entire chimp troupe forever.

        As Michael Goldhaber reminded us at the dawn of the Internet - people have limited Attention to pay to anything but unlimited capacity to receive Attention.

        So he will keep talking. Less people will pay attention. And the more the algos promote his content the more the backlash will build.

        The design principles of Who gets the Mic in a broadcast(1 to All) environment, who we pay attention too, and for how long are still a work in progress and have a long way to go.

        • PaulHoule 5 months ago
          In my building the men's bathrooms are stuffed with menstrual pads for those men who menstruate. In the next building over, the women's rooms have mxnstrual pads because "there are no men in menstruate".

          You can't find any elected politicians who are that bad. Still I wish those folks would claw each other's eyes out.

          • DemocracyFTW2 5 months ago
            Paul is that you? Still mad that that bar of soap in the bathroom was pink not blue? 30 years later?
            • PaulHoule 5 months ago
              Nah, 20 years ago there was a panic at the data center when I showed up on Halloween in drag with 4 inch high heels, fishnet stockings and a crop top. They rethought all the security policies. The microexpressions I saw on some people's faces indicated it wasn't a completely safe thing to do.

              Today I don't have the figure for it, but I think it is even less safe because of the polarization that has been driven by people's need for polarization.

            • 5 months ago
              • sympil 5 months ago
                So?
                • PaulHoule 5 months ago
                  (1) If the left had been focusing on broadly inclusive issues (speak to 5% of persuadable people, instead of 1% of extremists who'll stay home on election day anyhow) we could have 'woke' up in a different America; anti-fascists crying wolf for 20 years brought on the thing they said they were afraid of -- or were they? Is life more meaningful if it were like V for Vendetta or are they just jealous of the footwear?

                  (2) I live in one of the wokest small cities in America. My acting coach got devastated because she cast the 'wrong' person for a role in a high school play. She's trained people who have gone on to real careers in Hollywood, you wouldn't expect to find somebody like that in a small city -- they destroyed her.

                  I've seen the devastation that the current environment brought on many young men who are turning to charlatans like Joe Rogan, who are either taking anabolic steroids [1] or estrogen because they can never be enough. I can't stand glib pronouncements for the good of 2 or 3 people when so many young men are failing or being failed.

                  (3) I am not fan of PG's essay on wokeness, it's the same glib register as the signs they put in the bathroom. Woke isn't bad just because it's bad, it's bad because it's turned the left from something that should be majoritarian (we are the 99%, talk about pissing off PG!) into something that's minoritarian.

                  [1] ... but not as part of a program of athletic or bodybuilding training

            • scarface_74 5 months ago
              It had nothing to do with wokeness

              https://www.vox.com/politics/397525/trump-big-tech-musk-bezo...

              • davidw 5 months ago
                I am really disappointed in PG. He seemed a bit detached from the worst of the 'tech bro' scene.

                And then, recently, he goes and posts that essay about how 'woke' is this huge problem just as a bunch of flagrant racists come to power.

                • minimaxir 5 months ago
                  "Seemed" being the key word here.
                • DemocracyFTW2 5 months ago
                  ...another one bites the dust...