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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Old 'Sparkling Elites'
New 'Founder Mode'
I think the suggestion that delegating is the problem is hilarious. Like, from everything I've seen, what happens when successful startups start floundering is less because anything has changed and more because the fundamental problems with the business finally catch up to the amount of money they have to burn. The problem isn't that founders are hiring liars as managers and delegating to them, it's that the founders themselves are primarily bullshit artists rather than people with good plans.
What finally got me to post this here was somebody on bsky saying "'What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?'
most tech “businesses” don’t make money. they can’t figure out what people actually will pay for, but they get huge wads of cash to fuck around with until they make something useful or threatening enough that a megacorps buy them" and "i consider working at a startup a negative signal for success in actual business (aka selling things for a profit)"
Which reminded me of this founder mode post. Which also reminded me of how the founder moders have even stranger priorities than the manager moders (Who often also just are too much number must go up). Paul just saying 'we need more bullshit artists' while running a bullshit artist factory is quite something. (Also, that Musk proofread the article is just the cherry on top).
Well, he is a founder of companies like PayPal and Tesla, legally speaking.
Yes but does he have founder spirit?
Sure Andrew Eldritch claims he is not Goth, but he certainly has Goth spirit.