This is something I want to write at length about, but I can start with this. I'm not the same person I was last year, five years - shit, a decade ago. I was posing in front of a Tesla after going to a Thiel Fellowship meeting because from what I was told, these people were "changing the world".

Then I got more causally involved in what this industry does, with the same people around me then. There's quite a few of them left - and I'm not too torn up about it (it's always hard to disconnect from people) because the constant reminder that wealth and misogyny is _way more_ to maintain than giving half of a shit about people — even those who show directly how this shit affects them is irrelevant because "it makes them uncomfortable to think about bad things" told me enough.

I do not trust the genre of people who nod in saying "damn, shit is bad" and then continue to shovel said shit on top of people, suffocating them with even more stress. And this was across backgrounds. The most common thing was the class of said folks. Growing up around not that many white folks and… jacky.wtf/2023/2/JsbO