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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?
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.
Yeah, about three years ago now.
Why? I mean why is it important to identify who's behind something that doesn't hurt anybody? Can't we just enjoy the art?
Unfortunately your answer is this thread itself. As I am writing this comment it is Link #1 on HN. That is to say that people love this kind of content and it drives pageviews, so media outlets are incentivized to write about it. We have only ourselves to blame :/
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.
Of course nobody in power (or who wanted to be accepted by society) would say those views were rude or ignorant. It was only after politics changed that people would look back and call the formerly dominant ideology what it was.
The question is, what beliefs does society currently enforce that are wrong? Don't answer publicly, since by definition there would be a serious social cost for you speaking what society doesn't want spoken.
Or have we maybe outdone every preceding generation and actually managed to be right about every belief we hold dear?
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 ).
Why? I mean why is it important to identify who's behind something that doesn't hurt anybody? Can't we just enjoy the art?
I hadn't seen this, good read if you haven't either.
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 nece…
@PHP_CEO is one of the funniest Twitter accounts I've seen.. example: "IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE CALLED JASON HAS BEEN ENCODING AND DECODING DATA IN OUR APP. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS"
".@sama SO I SHOULD SELL SOFTWARE… AS A SERVICE?
WOULD I DO THIS ON COMPUTERS?
PLS ADVISE
THIS SAGACITY IS SURELY WORTH 10% OF MY COMPANY"
"@sama IF YOU HAVE ANY INSIGHTS ON HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE THIS WOULD ALSO BE APPRECIATED"
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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.
Down in 3, 2, 1 .. done.