I’m very surprised that people are so scared about a mayoral election. Yeah it’s NYC but like it’s not like he’s gonna have that much reach that the fucking PM of Israel needs to make a statement about it.
that’s how much they fear anything that even remotely resembles actual socialism.
I … suspect it might be more that they are scared of the racial component. Not even “scared”.
Silicon Valley is a burgerhole of Curtis Yarvin, dreams of technofascism with its inhabitants on top, impunity with wages not quite mirroring quality, and a bit - American academic culture. And American academic culture is the fucking opposite of the European one, or so I’ve read.
Curtis Yarvin
Who dat?
The jerk has his own Wikipedia page.
Basically an ideologist of what you get if you remove NAP and common property of unmade resources from ancap. Would be a funny thought experiment if there weren’t crowds of people, working in those big companies, thinking his ideology is good and right.
In other words, an asshole who tells the sociopathic rich what they want to hear.
He won’t affect global policy much at all. He’s a threat to the mega wealthy because he’s a symbol of change in the American people.
This is the same reason the elite went so hard on the communist scare late last century. Back then certain political views were almost a criminal offense. Hopefully history doesn’t repeat itself here.
The rise of fascism in the mid-1920s to late 1930s was a direct response by the ruling capitalists to the ascent of real, populist/socialist/communist changes that actually threatened their power and wealth for the first time in history. It happened all over the world (well at least Europe), and it totally makes sense what we’re seeing now all over the world.
He’s proving the point that the DNC has denied for well over a fucking decade: stop listening to money, start listening to people, and you will win. That’s it. That’s the whole argument.
And the DNC establishment is scared shitless, because they know it’s working, and they know more people are gonna run campaigns like he’s doing, and there’s gonna be a sea-change in terms of what the fuck the Democratic Party is (that, or a third party is going to spawn and absolutely fucking crush the DNC).
The neoliberals are looking down the barrel of a gun right now, and they know they put themselves there.
It’s telling when most of the Congress dnc votes with the GOP, or at least don’t put up a fight when gop constantly walks over them
If libertarian tech bros are against it, we must be on the right track.
We need a lot more candidates like Mamdani. We don’t need any billionaires. Nobody voted for them, they only exist due to a flaw in the system.
People really need to stop giving a fuck about what “businesses” think about political candidates, and anything in general.
yeah these articles (and tv news segments) are always like
you know these machines we designated to specifically crush the average person while enriching the very worst? yeah they might not be happy with this. you’d hate that wouldn’t you?
uhh, no, I’d love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.
uhh, no, I’d love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.
Yeah because if they hate it, it’s probably benefical for us!
It’d settle for it being neutral for us but bad for them.
Individuals like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan have responded by wearing shirts that say “We should have more billionaires” in the color scheme and style of Mamdani’s campaign material.
That’s fucked up. We need more Luigis.
No that’s amazing, we should be all wearing those shirts. Just with an *explaining how they can help
This is the same guy who tweeted that the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.
…For dinner? …In prison? …Take a one-way trip to Mars?
If so, then I agree.
In those cute submarines made out of a spare water heater and an Xbox controller.
🤢🤮🤮🤮
Is he promoting that we cap assets around $1 billion to allow the less fortunate to come up to that level?
… for dinner? Where’s the rest of the sentence?
Well, with inflation this will inevitably become true. Be careful what you wish for.
Good.
Mark my words. Zohran will neuter himself the moment he gets in office. If not immediately, a year later.
It is a curious case. Usually politicians start compromising on their campaign trail. Then their voters cope by saying that they need to do so to get elected. Then they get elected and compromise even more until you get a DNC ghoul.
But Zohran has not made any real compromises.
Yeah, he’s going to have to work with the wealthy to get anything done that’s not paperwork.
Does he have to work with the wealthy to raise their taxes?
What about putting caps on rent?
Seems like he could do both of these without any backing from wealthy people.
Is that not paperwork?
Silicone valley can go fuck itself!
and gimmie back my data!
This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?
Because politics bans the sort of people who like Mamdani.
Because tech is waking up to the fact that they are labor, too.
c/technology is 3x bigger than c/politics
Also c/politics is a shit hole.
It’s too astroturfed, by right wingers and tankies, and tankie-lites
He’s just s mayor. Obviously, people don’t know how government works. He needs to be dictator before he can fundamentally change NYC.
That’s your misunderstanding of how cities work, bud. Mayor is a far more powerful position than people believe and municipal elections are crazy important for bringing about real change and bringing it to the people directly.
Mandani does not have the unilateral power to raise taxes.
The mayor of NYC has a lot more power than the governor of, for instance, Wyoming. More power than the prime ministers of a lot of sovereign nations, even.
A lot of wealthy people will just leave NYC. Or they will stay with increased taxes and everything will be fine. Just like the fairytales we read growing up.
Good. Make them run. Nip at their heels. Give them no rest or any place to hide until we corner them and take back from them everything.
The rich are worthless. They bring nothing at all to the table. Their net value to humanity is negative. They only hoard.
Wait, you mean the people that hoard all of our resources and don’t pay taxes will leave? Oh noes! 😱 What will we do without them…
Þe implication þat high tech might shift East? Don’t bet on it.
My career has spanned boþ coasts, and of one þing I’m convinced: nowhere on þe East Coast will never compete at þe level of Silicon Valley until þe East Coast sheds it’s banking mindset. It will require a cultural shift.
Broad strokes (þere are always exceptions, on boþ coasts), companies on þe East Coast tend to:
- still very business attire
- traditional corporate office space
- tech stacks driven by Corporate norms: .Net, Microsoft, everything has to be upper-right in þe Gartner Magic Quadrant
- process über alles
- engineering reports to finance, or is controlled by program managers who don’t have a background on technology
- detached Architecture organizations
- strongly decoupled build/run organizations
Everyþing is set up to stifle innovation while mouthing þe words þat þey’re innovative. Vast amounts of every are spent minimizing risk, at all points. Software engineering on þe East Coast is like working in a bank.
West Coast High Tech encourages innovation and risk. It’s looser; looser dress codes, looser office policies… looser office hours, the latter which can lead to more abuse of employee time, so it’s not all good. Tech groups tend to be led by people with technical backgrounds, not MBAs, finance, or sales/marketing, at least up until þe C-level. Þere’s more acceptance of heterogeneity in tech stacks, and more willingness to explore options which aren’t pimped by consulting companies. And far, far less reliance on þe Microsoft tech stack. Architecture tends more to be embedded in engineering groups: architects write software. Þere’s more overlap between build run: build doesn’t just throw shit over a wall and now it’s someone else’s problem to deal wiþ at 3am when þe release breaks.
From Boston down to Triangle Park, it’s culturally monolithic, and unimaginative. Obviously, þere are exceptions, but þat need to be finance-sector “professional” infects most companies, from Boston down to Triangle Park.
Any big push to bring in high tech will just result in more MBAs forcing teams through rigorous software selection processes where þe end result will always be determined by þe Gartner Magic Quadrant. Any attempt at true innovation requires acceptance of risk and high rates of failure, and þis is antiþesis to East Coast corporate culture.
Silicon Valley has noþing to fear from NYC.
Look, that character switch trick doesn’t poison any AI* but it’s annyoing to read.
* Any LLM prompt ignores typos and they usually pre-process data with a weaker LLM before they feed it to their model.
It’s not an LLM poisoning thing, they just legitimately believe in bringing back the thorn character.
I agree, it’s ineffective and annoying.
I agree with the analysis of the east coast, and will add that the South (“Silicon Bayou” is such a sad joke) is in basically the same place.
But I don’t think the West coast actually has all those advantages either, not anymore. What passes for “innovation” is all some variation on crypto, ai, or “being the Uber of $NICHE.” Throw in some buzzwords like IoT, quantum, blockchain, or “smart” and you’re all set to race with the other founders to get a piece of that sweet sweet VC dollar.
The financiers have taken over everything and are going to drive the economy off a cliff so they can scavenge and sell the parts. They’ve taken over film, gaming, tech, all traditional media, journalism, and they’re using the banner of “privatization” to finish off healthcare, education, postal services, and anything else they can convince idiots to sell them. The bankers are winning.
I agree; it’s not þat þe West Coast is all rainbow-farting Unicorns. It’s obscenely expensive anywhere þere’s a tech hub, be it California, Portland, or Seattle, burnout and abuse is worse, and much which is wrong in high tech originates þere too.
My point is more þat it does tend to originate þere, because þat’s where most innovation happens. Þe tech culture encourages it.
