The Cringeocracy.
I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down -- I just didn't expect them to be such losers. I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men,...
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@jwz We live in a Wannabe-Bond-Villain-ocracy. Not enough fluffy white Persian cats or Nehru suits, but they've got the rest (island bases? Rockets? Electric cars? Insane plans to take over or destroy the world? Etc.)
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@cstross @jwz I know it's a typo, but I think I'd prefer the insane plants.
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@cstross Would any of the bond villains even read as villains in today's "business climate"?
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@jwz @cstross this was a pointed comment in Austin Powers already, and it’s only gotten worse :(
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@adriano @cstross I remain unconvinced that there was a single concept or gag in Austin Powers (1997) that wasn't lifted directly from Our Man Flint (1966). That movie was straight-up plagiarism.
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@jwz @cstross poor misunderstood job creators being bullied by the poors
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@jwz Well, in the Afterword to "The Jennifer Morgue" I dropped in on and interviewed Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 2005, and he seemed like a perfectly ordinary private equity dude to me …
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@cstross @jwz Still one of my favorite bits.
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@jwz @cstross surely they're all just successful business men. They only wanted to hold the world to ransom - the current lot want to see it burn
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@jwz @cstross Peter Thiel is just a low-rent Stromberg with not enough will to power.
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@cstross @jwz I just think that the Bond villains were smarter than our current batch of broligarchs.
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@jwz Revenge of the nerds.
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@slyborg @jwz No, don’t play their game! They are not the way they are because they’re nerds or men or whatever; they are literally just assholes, and the rest of us are unbelievably embarrassed by any association. https://findthethread.blog/Sad-Masculinity/
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@jwz Idiocracy prepared me well.
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@jwz very strong incoming divorce vibes on that whole situation
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@codinghorror @jwz While Priscilla appears deeply ambivalent about that Statue that Musk commissioned of her last year (like the huge Ancient Rome dork that he is), I also don't think she's so unaware of who he's always been that she's on her way out the door.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/14/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-sculpture
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@jwz translation: divorced angry guy vibe losers. Oh and trust me that's coming for Zuck from the whisper networks
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