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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

      So @sonyasupposedly is explaining why VCBrags is terrible, and the more of her tweets I read, the more I kind of sympathize with the guy Like, yes, VCs do great work and create value and work with founds who create value ... but, MAN, do I hate that whole California / SV culture

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

      2/ ...and thing is, I'm barely exposed to it, and I almost never ever think about it, but on those times when I DO think about it, I see this extremely horrible cross breed between Kim Stanley Robinson 1970s California / Berkeley anti-materialist / surfer / nature lover culture

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

      3/ ...and this ruthless sharks-eating-other-sharks-and-looking-TREMENDOUS-on-Instragram-as-they-do-it culture. So you get guys who take ADHD drugs to work 19 hour days, and part of the 19 hr days is 1 hour of brand building on social media, and the brand is hippie-overachiever

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

      4/ So you get founders dressed in Patagonia taking selfies on a running trail and tweeting that "a 15km run before work helps me center myself and approach cobranding in a customer-first way"

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

      5/ or a VC applauding all of the ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL Pakistani lesbians of color who are doing such amazing work in STEAM incubators, and it was a true honor to chair the TEDx discussion session

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          6/ ...and I'm reminded WHY it is that I never see this stuff (or ALMOST never do): it's because I find it so revolting that I try to avoid it whenever I can. The style is all based around an insanely studied attempt to be "transparent" and "vulnerable" and "aware" and and and

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          7/ I guess at core what I hate most about it is the direct contradiction between the ESPOUSED values and the ACTUAL values. I am entirely OK with hippies. I am entirely OK with Gordon Gecko. I hate Gordon Gecko pretending he's a hippie.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          8/ It's false.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          9/ So, to the extent that VCBrags was mocking all of the over-the-top signalling and hypocrisy, I like it.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖

          10/ some of the VC stuff is absolutely terrible, and some is 99.99% fine. This, for example, is almost entirely fine. but ...https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1301942602980179968 …

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           🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
          VCBrags consistently misses that hyping portfolio companies is an integral part of the job. @aeyal1's tweet here is completely unobjectionable! https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1194243987437236229 … pic.twitter.com/iSbXnPKaf0
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          11/ ...what exactly is this cartoon? It's so innocent, so twee, so studiedly inoffensive. It's the visual equivalent of every single !@#-damned company posting to Hacker News about how they build their product "with love". It's Wes Anderson, without the charm.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          12/ And I have an instinctive negative reaction to people denying their fundamental drives. If you want sex, ok, admit that you want sex. If you want food, admit you want food. If you enjoy technical challenges, or making metric !@#-tons of money, or or or ...just say so.

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          13/ Founders and VCs who say that they're building a product "with love" for "the community" in an "open and transparent manner, where we're PROACTIVELY COLLABORATING on MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE with LOCALLY SOURCED CODE AND ETHICALLY HARVESTED DATA BASE TABLES" ugh

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          14/ ...it's like some beta SJW hanging around a woman, telling her that he's really impressed by her strength, and he honors her, AS A WOMAN, because she's so strong and brave to deal with the patriarchal blah blah blah... and DUDE WE ALL KNOW YOU JUST WANT TO NAIL HER

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          15/ So when I see twee, de-sexed, studiously inoffensive visuals like this...pic.twitter.com/DVzUBQUnNw

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          16/ ...what I see is some sort of repressed person who can't admit that he wants X, and X is actually OK. The word "repressed" is key here, I think. To use a stereotype on the left hand side Christians : Sex :: SV Culture : Money

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          17/ There's this really really really weird cycle where the more you deny something, the more your fetishize it, so the more you deny it, and sublimate it. Any normal person knows that it's perfectly ok to want money, bc money gives you options and leisure.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          18/ ...but silicon valley is a very weird hybrid, born of ruthless capitalism but also ruthless hippiedom, and that conflict is at the very core of its motivations. Everyone there wants a successful exit more than anything else ...BUT THEY CAN'T SAY THAT PART OUT LOUD.

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          19/ Languages have tons of fascinating features. One is that words take on tabboos, and so other words are used in their place, and then those words get some of the contamination (we've seen this with race etc in English, but it happens in other languages for other taboos)

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          20/ So in hybrid SV culture, the urge to make money is front and center, but it is filthy and grotesque, and so must be sublimated. Founder can't say "I want to be a billionaire". He has to say that he wants to work with great people and empower teams to change the world.

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          21/ And if you're FROM that culture, it all makes perfect sense. ...but if you're outside, it looks like so many epicycles of hypocrisy piled atop each other, and it's hilariously stupid, and everyone involved in it is a loser.

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wilbur Hassenfus & the Idle Speculators

          22/https://twitter.com/lbsasquatch/status/1301945259476295681 …

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          Wilbur Hassenfus & the Idle Speculators @lbsasquatch
          Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
          The twee cartoon shit is the same as Woke HR. It’s goofy millennials who’ve been coopted by shark capital. They’re permitted to add a little New Beetle flower vase to the death train to reassure the victims, and they think that means they’ve coopted the beast.
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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

          23/https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1301945669159194626 …

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          Eric Richards @EricRichards22
          Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
          The thing is, the vc_brags criticism is very weak-sauce, most of the time. VC-related stuff just has so much sycophantry orbiting it at all times that criticism hits hard. And then there's always this stuff: https://twitter.com/illex/status/1300928708400693248 …
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖

          24/ Sonya is part of that culture. She lives near it, and she's young, so she's been steeped in it all of her life. So she says things like thishttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1301945685852352513 …

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           🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
          Yet another example of shitting on someone's personal growth and accomplishments, this time featuring @jarridvtingle https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1212730910673641473 …
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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          25/ Her complain: "Yet another example of shitting on someone's personal growth and accomplishments, " But the tweet ISN'T saying that the accomplishments and growth are bad. The tweet is saying that the guy is a braggart, crass, and his SV culture is cringey.

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          26/ ...and I agree. This is cringey AF.pic.twitter.com/XxV9bOTjyW

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          27/ Paul Graham has an essay on the culture of certain cities, and I think it's Boston where he mentions that there are millionaires who drive dumpy cars, because it's crass to flaunt you wealth Who puts "scale myself" on a list of goals, checks it off, and then tells everyone?

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          28/ It's marketing copy posing as 1970s EST / self improvement / eastern mysticism.

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted th esla yerbo b

          29/ I don't see capitalists, VCs, or founders as "parasites", Chris. I see them as generating value.https://twitter.com/spiderfoods/status/1301946044041826304 …

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          th esla yerbo b @spiderfoods
          Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
          So.... you hate the *aesthetics* of globalized parasites, but naked globalized parasitism is totally okay. Interesting.
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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          30/ this https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1301947109034188800 …

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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          31/ so anyway, the core disagreement that Sonya and I have is that she sees VC Brags as crapping on the accomplishments, and I think that's bc she's a fish in water and can't see the culture, and I assert it's the CULTURE that is being mocked, not the accomplishments exeunt

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          32/ Ron LaFlamme, yes. But also Gavin Belson's guru. So perfect. https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1301947636635906048 …

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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted th esla yerbo b

          33/ /shrug I believe in consenting adults, and I stand by the "Wilt Chamberlain" argument in Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia. I have seen no arguments that make me question that.https://twitter.com/spiderfoods/status/1301948087951294464 …

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          th esla yerbo b @spiderfoods
          Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
          Well, we still seem stuck on the idea that "generating money == value", because of the inherent magical nature of "equal transactions" and the belief in this mythical construct of "consenting adults" 😂
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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wilbur Hassenfus & the Idle Speculators

          34/ "capital" is just "tools, accumulated over time". I don't "forge an alliance" with a hammer, I use it. A factory doesn't "forge an alliance" with me, it hires me. /shrughttps://twitter.com/lbsasquatch/status/1301948117332484096 …

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          Wilbur Hassenfus & the Idle Speculators @lbsasquatch
          Replying to @lbsasquatch @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
          When you forge an alliance with capital, you’re not forging an alliance. You’re just selling your soul. That’s no consolation to me, because you can do a hell of a lot of damage before you outlive your usefulness.
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        31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2020

          35/ Here's another one Sonya criticizes. I think this is on-target mockery. What is Chetan praising? THE UNDERSTATED NATURE OF THE EXITS. UNDERSTATED!!!pic.twitter.com/IPrx0tIU4b

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