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Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by ska »

kelukelugames wrote: post #5
tosseraccount wrote: post #3

https://twitter.com/startupljackson is the twitter site. We need a list of sometimes anonymous, poignant and politically incorrect twitter feeds for other industries. For Finance, check out https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker ("Downtown" Josh Brown) and "gselevator" https://twitter.com/GSElevator ) (author was also eventually unmasked) "Teach the coal miners and frackers Python and Ruby." classic.

Why do you think SLJ was politically incorrect? He never said anything rude or ignorant. He often tweeted about diversity and inclusion and coined the term "culture debt" for startups. update: okay I think the words pc and un un pc have become meaningless because they mean too many different things.

For that matter it is not clear that the term "politically incorrect" has any useful meaning anymore, now that it has been a rhetorical football for so long.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by elcapitan »

potatolicious wrote: post #9
kelukelugames wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think SLJ was politically incorrect? He never said anything rude or ignorant. He often tweeted about diversity and inclusion and coined the term "culture debt" for startups. update: okay I think the words pc and un un pc have become meaningless because they mean too many different things.

I think OP was using "politically incorrect" in its original definition - i.e., speaking in a way counter to what's politically popular/accepted by the elite. Which in Startup L. Jackson's case was definitely true - he called out a lot of the Valley's cultural myopia, excesses, and failures in a way that he would have been unable to do without the pseudonymity or pretense of satire. Unfortunately the word has also be…

> speaking in a way counter to what's politically popular/accepted by the elite

> Unfortunately the word has also been co-opted by some to mean "liberal" or "progressive"

Because what is tolerated by the elite and what is called "liberal" or "progressive" are two completely separate things, in particular with respect to academic elites, right.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by m52go »

tosseraccount wrote: post #3

https://twitter.com/startupljackson is the twitter site. We need a list of sometimes anonymous, poignant and politically incorrect twitter feeds for other industries. For Finance, check out https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker ("Downtown" Josh Brown) and "gselevator" https://twitter.com/GSElevator ) (author was also eventually unmasked) "Teach the coal miners and frackers Python and Ruby." classic.

I like @Wu_Tang_Finance (https://twitter.com/Wu_Tang_Finance).

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by vox_mollis »

potatolicious wrote: post #9
kelukelugames wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think SLJ was politically incorrect? He never said anything rude or ignorant. He often tweeted about diversity and inclusion and coined the term "culture debt" for startups. update: okay I think the words pc and un un pc have become meaningless because they mean too many different things.

I think OP was using "politically incorrect" in its original definition - i.e., speaking in a way counter to what's politically popular/accepted by the elite. Which in Startup L. Jackson's case was definitely true - he called out a lot of the Valley's cultural myopia, excesses, and failures in a way that he would have been unable to do without the pseudonymity or pretense of satire. Unfortunately the word has also be…

The word has been co-opted as such because the dominant groupthink of the boomers now in power is decidedly progressive.

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Post by tosseraccount »

khc wrote: post #7
tosseraccount wrote: post #3

https://twitter.com/startupljackson is the twitter site. We need a list of sometimes anonymous, poignant and politically incorrect twitter feeds for other industries. For Finance, check out https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker ("Downtown" Josh Brown) and "gselevator" https://twitter.com/GSElevator ) (author was also eventually unmasked) "Teach the coal miners and frackers Python and Ruby." classic.

I've been following @SarcasticRover for a while, do robots count?

"Celebrate 'Pi Day' by being irrational and going on forever."

good! thanks.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by cronjobber »

potatolicious wrote: post #9
kelukelugames wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think SLJ was politically incorrect? He never said anything rude or ignorant. He often tweeted about diversity and inclusion and coined the term "culture debt" for startups. update: okay I think the words pc and un un pc have become meaningless because they mean too many different things.

I think OP was using "politically incorrect" in its original definition - i.e., speaking in a way counter to what's politically popular/accepted by the elite. Which in Startup L. Jackson's case was definitely true - he called out a lot of the Valley's cultural myopia, excesses, and failures in a way that he would have been unable to do without the pseudonymity or pretense of satire. Unfortunately the word has also be…

Wikipedia: In the early-to-mid 20th century, the phrase "politically correct" was associated with the dogmatic application of Stalinist doctrine [...] In the 1970s, the New Left began using the term "politically correct."

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by smcl »

vram22 wrote: post #4

I've found @DEVOPS_BORAT to be funny too. Kept seeing his tweets for over a year or two; humorous ones about devops, from an imaginary Armenian devops guy with broken English. Seems to have stopped tweeting a while ago.

When it comes to devops on twitter I've found @fart's stuff to be pretty great. Particularly this: https://medium.com/weird/why-i-am-the-most-important-devops-... - a little sample below:

"This data is encapsulated in what are called “Data Beans” which are stored on the hard drive as zeroes (Optimal bean or “prime bean”) and ones (Flatbean or “bad bean”). These Data Beans are stored magnetically and retrieved as necessary. If a user requests too much data at one time they can suffer from data poisoning.

The computer’s RAM also stores Data Beans in the cloud. No one knows how this is done or why "

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