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I’m seeing a weird amount of Elon/Tesla simping in my feed. Feels like it’s probably intended as white supremicist dog whistles so I’m gonna start blocking everyone who posts pro Elon shit from now on.

writing stuff about tech + decentralization

Why are crypto people such musk lovers? It truly boggles my mind.

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Masculinity... Dude town around here and dudes love techno-positivism, cars, rockets and all that jazz, like my little nephew loves trucks.

Working on Nosh, a decentralized delivery protocol.

Cooperatives and ownership.

I’m a man. I would describe myself as a tech enthusiast. Rockets are impressive, and electric cars are fun to drive. But, somehow, I don’t find myself wanting to be a sycophant for an openly fascist megabillionaire.

Point being, I’m not sure this can be hand washed away as “boys will be boys”

I am the same, but I do think that masculinity and patriarchy are at the heart of many of the problems we are having at the moment. And crypto culture is hyper masculine.

Understood. And I agree. But we are dealing with an acute case of the problem (nerd fascism)
NY Times interviewed Andreessen the other week. He is mad that young people don't think that a16z is good or relevant. "What do you mean we are not relevant!!??" And now we all suffer cause their worldview is challenged.

Fair point. I’m just saying I hope they don’t try to use that as an excuse. There’s being masculine and there’s enabling the rise of nazism in America. There are other car manufacturers is all I’m saying.