You can feel the tipping point in this video, the point where we stop calling it "marketing" and start calling it "user experience" and pretend it's something else. It's a gift to capitalism. (also cameo from scott adams)
it took working in there for me to understand that this is an ad company, i.e. cons upon cons, and the image they had built was just part of the long con.
Nice rant. And it sux that people would be likely to defend google against very clearly true opinions like that
turning one of the most popular sites on the internet into a cesspit of transphobia and nazis: ambivalent
this is the part that needs to be recognised as the brand. Changing the name and the logo are kind of good at this point because the blue bird was already dead. Even before musk that cute bird was doing a lot of work to make shitty people seem not-shitty. Musk can't hide his shittyness behind a blue bird like jack could. Musk is a skid mark but his lack of creativity makes him use his skid marks as logos - which is something that I hope more shit stains copy because its scary how easy it is to mask a bad smell with a pastel colour palette and a pixel-perfect design system
This is why every full-stack engineer who celebrates the chromium browser dominance because they don’t have to worry about css and js browser compatibility should be slapped. The I/O conference is the biggest ad disguised as a “we care about the web” community event of them all.
I saved this quote from an episode of the If Books Could Kill podcast
53:10 in the The 5 Love Languages episode: Michael Hobbes “This is something that is becoming a theme on this show. How these books take over the culture without anyone really noticing or caring - “Ok 30 million people bought The Secret there’s no reason for the New York Times to write a lengthy review or for anyone to publish a thorough authoritative debunking. Something like Rich Dad Poor Dad, which I could not find lengthy reviews of, the only people that have debunked it are other fucking real estate grifters, like people trying to sell their own book. If you’re someone who is looking for 101-style advice and you see this on a poster somewhere and think “oh I’m gonna check this out” there is really no authoritative source being like “Here are the reasons why it doesn’t hold up” like the elite liberal media has kind of just been like “eh, it’s just for the plebs” but these books are wildly influential”
where paul graham primed a bunch of folks to accept both Lisp and right-wing libertarianism as the same bundle of ideas
PG gets off way too lightly as a mere annoying vc most of the time. There is plenty of sneer project potential in each of his pointed, dumbly confident “essays”
They backpedaled!
https://web.archive.org/web/20230816195515/https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1691869268747628768