i think this is right! and there’s definitely a literalization of this old concept that we see now (and tons of people who *love* to watch people use their “fuck you money” to own their ideological enemies)
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Tech Companies Compromising Ethics for Financial Gain
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not saying there’s some golden age of business or anything but i think the last decade has been a real rise of this mentality – this platform being a v small example of when the $ is just too good & you cant say no so you have to get in bed with somebody who has disdained for you
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Corporate Shamelessness and Outrage Fatigue in Modern Economics
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the ‘late stage capitalism’ line is kinda unhelpful now in articulating the context of our lives but if there’s 1 quality of it i think it’s just emboldening actors to be as shameless as they want who cares? ppl will move on to the next outrage & also it’s fun to own your enemies
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Tech industry shamelessness about money and power dynamics
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part of me feels like a dipshit for tweeting this bc this has always been the case with money and power (and glossing it over isn’t exactly better) but the shift in the packaging of it all feels notable. there’s just a shamelessness – who cares about seeming craven/hypocritical?!
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Google DeepMind Announces New AI System for Computing Efficiency
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Mega-Cap Tech Stocks Sell-Off After Massive Rally
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Mega-Cap sells off: What did you expect? $4 trillion in market cap added in less than six months. https://
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Copilot Enhanced with GPT-4 and Web Browsing
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Copilot gives you higher quality answers by browsing a lot more and also using GPT 4. Turn it on and try the same search!
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Sarah Tariq Rises to VP of Autonomous Driving at NVIDIA
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Sarah Tariq is living life in the fast lane. Her NVIDIA career journey spans from intern to vice president of autonomous driving software, and she now leads a team of several hundred engineers. #NVIDIAlife https://
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MongoDB Q1 FY24 Revenue Growth and Cloud Market Expansion
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And the company is doing great: – Q1 FY24 revenue of $368.3 million, up 29% YoY (Our cloud service MongoDB Atlas $$ was up 40% YoY and is now 65% of revenue
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MongoDB Hiring: Developer Productivity Roles in AI/ML
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I'm hiring at @MongoDB
, and would love to have you join. We're focused on enabling developers to be dramatically more productive, faster, with MongoDB. Some open roles: – https://
mongodb.com/careers/jobs/5
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– https://
mongodb.com/careers/jobs/4
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… But there are others in community, AI/ML advocacy