Post #4382930

2026-08-04 20:52 UTC

Clammy Sammy acknowledges Ed Zitron for the first time! xcancel.com/sama/status/2084663673570971990 His response is the Live Laugh Love of 2015 Silicon Valley platitudes: i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won’t work. it’s much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don’t try. no amount of “it will never work” essays will drive society forward. Of course, building data centers that use untold amounts of rare earth metals, electricity, and water while spewing out tons of pollution and scraping every last bit of human content in order to remove people from their jobs by doing them badly is what drives society forward. Profits fail if oligarchs don’t try.

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@samvines@awful.systems 2026-08-04 21:22

“Everything’s going great actually. We’re doing really important work that’s really hard. I’m I’m really happy, optimistic guy and I’m very trustworthy. Disregard the smog coming from that data centre over there. Also disregard all those angry looking bankers staring at me.”

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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-08-04 21:44

i still can’t find the shift key on my keyboard.* i think it may just be a greybeard myth. no big deal, posting messages like this really bolsters my public image by making me seem relaxed and approachable. *Unless I am publicly accused of fraud, trade secret theft, mass copyright infringement, etc. in which case my PR team tells me I need to temporarily drop the act.

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