I miss pre-political tech so much... Or at least the time when tech politics had something to do with tech or was new and interesting in some way rather than the same left–right bs the rest of society is mired in.https://twitter.com/cyantist/status/1310822000802267138 …
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When did if start? And why?
In 2012 (when Stripe and Pinterest moved), the center of gravity shifted from the valley proper to SF. But judging from word frequency graphs, this was also when the press became a lot more PC. So maybe the same thing would have happened then regardless.
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2012 ia also a couple years after the Social Network came out and CS became a hot major again
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This is, coincidentally, around the time the first coding bootcamps opened. Is it not possible that the barriers to entry for tech were eliminated, allowing nonwhite nonmale participants in greater numbers? When I look at 2012 tech, I see a monoculture, not diversity of thoughtpic.twitter.com/6g7IW8d4mJ
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There were <100 code bootcamp grads then, so I doubt that factored in in any real way.
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I think some people believe that what’s happening is truly aberrant and requires their close attention. Basically the core values on which they were raised are being attacked... by the sitting president.
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Now that I've thought more about it, I think the cause may have been the press. I think this was roughly when the press discovered that PC = pageviews. And more specifically that indignation-inducing stories generated huge numbers of pageviews from Twitter.
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It was Cambridge Analytica - it gave journalists the long-sought breakthrough they needed to peg a right/left narrative around Facebook. The rest played out via the usual tit-for-tat tribalism/one-upmanship we've seen elsewhere.
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how can we rebuild the pre-politics tech scene? is it even possible or is it another Eternal September?
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