The Origins of ~~Totalitarianism~~ Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

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Guttural@jlai.lu · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why is it that the californian tech bros have all embraced conservative talking points so quickly? Weren't they supposed to be "shitlibs"?

Soyweiser@awful.systems · 8 pts · 1y

Welcome to the dropping the crypto, going openly neoreactionary (*) californian tech bro era.

(*: I don't know if they are neoreactionary, but that is the dumbest ideology I could easily link them too)

blakestacey@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)
flizzo@awful.systems · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

thought I checked it, my bad T_T

dgerard@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y

as it says at the top, always feel free to spin a post out, there's no quota

blakestacey@awful.systems · 4 pts · 1y

No worries

Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

My younger son likes to imitate voices, and at one point when he was about seven I had to explain which accents it was currently safe to imitate publicly and which not. It took about ten minutes, and I still hadn't covered all the cases.

mawhrin@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y

“don't imitate other people's accents, it's rude”. less than 10 words.

TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems · 8 pts · 1y

As someone who also went to university in the late 80s and early 90s, I didn't share his experiences. This reads like one of those silly shaggy-dog stories where everyone says sarcastically afterwards: "yeah that happened".

arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems · 8 pts · 1y

god damn couldn't even get past the first paragraph where he describes himself, while trying to attribute it to others

istewart@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Come now, he was always about consing chodes into lists... Given his excessive self-seriousness, I doubt he's taken the time to pick up the skill of juggling them in the years since

flizzo@awful.systems · 4 pts · 1y

normally I'd say that's true but he wanted to impart the juggling in particular to his progeny

o7___o7@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How did pg get stuck in write-only mode?

flizzo@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y

maybe his endgame is proving the halting problem