My end of the year post on optimism this year has a slightly different tone, in which I explain how my tech optimism differs from Marc Andreessens, and I see his more as pessimistic cynicism, not optimism. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/29/new-years-message-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-is-the-opposite-of-tech-optimism/
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Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 14:22:35 JST Mike Masnick ✅ @ukuku fwiw, I heard Marc make fun of people calling him out of touch with poor people, because he says he grew up in a poor rural community. Even though that was decades ago.
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James (ukuku@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 14:22:36 JST James @mmasnick I wish poverty upon Andreesen in the new year.
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