Marc Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto… (web.archive.org)

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I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though

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[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

He literally cites one of the authors of the Fascist Manifesto lmao

Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism

In lieu of detailed endnotes and citations, read the work of these people, and you too will become a Techno-Optimist.

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

[-] self@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

I’d throw a printed copy of A Brief Primer on Technofascism attached to a brick through Marc’s window, but he’d take it as an aggressive complement

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

idea: cover image of the book is a stack-of-boxes of character faces layout featuring ever-so-slightly-not-theirs faces that look legally dissimilar enough to each of the relevant fash clowns

all faces generated by use of genai, of course. because if they want to argue likeness...

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