The Clinamenic Co-Living Diary

[luka]

he must be having a laugh.

 

[yyaldrin]

This guy rubs us the wrong way, but yeah a few of my housemates are a couple degrees removed. I'm being careful what I say about him in public.

if you are in a place where you feel you can't really say what you think then that doesn't really sound like a good place.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

 

[Mr. Tea]

“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”

Why does the left hate crypto so much?

I don't get it? I don't just mean the capitalist angle (why no vitriol over the National Lottery, though?) or the environmental side (as if Bandcamp Friday's not a colossal waste of electricity...). There's something more to this, I can tell certain people on Twitter SERIOUSLY hate crypto and...

www.dissensus.com

Good question, @martin, I mean it's totally mystifying, isn't it?

 

[Clinamenic]

💯

 

[Mr. Tea]

Ha, "Nerd Reich" is excellent.

 

[Clinamenic]

I will say, all of this makes SF an even more interesting place to live. Its such a fascinating convergence of radical (and radically different) ideologies and lifestyles.

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

The Techbro Turf War Over AI’s Most Hardcore Hacker House

Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” are fighting to unseat one another in a brutal battle for supremacy.

www.forbes.com