Posted on 06/13/2021 6:14:00 PM PDT by tbw2
In Silicon Valley, 17 years later, another kind of revolution is taking shape. A handful of founders and CEOs—Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, Jason Fried of Basecamp, Shopify’s Tobias Lütke, Medium’s Ev Williams—have said the unsayable. In the face of shop-floor social-justice activism, they’ve decided, business owners should resolve to stick to business.
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In October, a pseudonymous group inspired by Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong came together under the banner “Mission Protocol,” with the aim of getting other companies to start “putting aside activities and conversations” outside the scope of their professional missions. (“Mission focus doesn’t mean being apolitical,” they note. “It means being political about the mission. This mission is what you came together to accomplish, and this mission is what you’re fighting for in your work on the project.”) Paul Graham, a famed venture capitalist and “hacker philosopher,” tweeted his support to 1.3 million followers. Melia Russell, who covers the startup beat for Business Insider, noted that startups were jumping into the Mission Protocol threads “with a hell yes.”
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Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass
https://quillette.com/2021/06/11/silicon-valleys-mission-protocol-revolution-is-beginning-to-attain-critical-mass/
This would be a great step away from the Abyss.
Perhaps the lesson Intel learned when they embraced this nonsense is coming forward.
Since this all began at Stanford, I don’t think things are going to change for the better.
bkmk
rule 190
hear everything
believe nothing
Too bad so many people fail to grasp the moral superiority of Capitalism. They cling to Socialism as fervently as any other zealot and remain deliberately blind to its evils.
Some founders, venture capitalists, and angel investors are now refusing to speak with legacy-media journalists who infuse their reporting with a social-justice slant. “What’s the point [of talking to reporters]?” a developer said. “They hate us, and we think they know nothing about the way the world works outside their woke, east-coast bubble.”
It should not be surprising that the techs are taking a dislike to wokeness internally. These companies all have very few blacks in software development. Under woke "logic", the techs are all thoroughly racist. They would destroy themselves if they internalized wokeness.
But don't hold your breath waiting for an end to censorship at the social media companies, Amazon etc. It would be typical disgusting liberal hypocrisy to be blocking wokeness internally, while foisting it on the culture.
If there are techs who are thoroughly woke internally, I expect they'll disappear eventually. Meanwhile we are hearing of a lot of woke insanity at non-tech companies (insurance, airlines, Disney). Perhaps they will eventually destroy themselves.
For these CEOs, the problem isn’t just the media and external critics: The wokeness is coming from inside the building. At dinner parties, they ask each other the same question: How do we keep woke activists off the payroll? “It’s the first thing they want to talk about these days,” a vice president at a venture-capital shop told me. “It’s the crazy, activist, political stuff. I’ve not met a founder who doesn’t think it’s a problem. There’s a state of what the f**k?”
"How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?" This is a strange question. Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll? Who is that and how do they do it?
Meanwhile, although some may be Republicans, I think most of these idiots are committed Democrats.
BTW, I own stock in Snowflake. It's taking the database software world by storm.
The enemy is inside the wire.
“The enemy is inside the wire.”
The enemy is inside the K-12 classrooms.
Now that they got their commi leader, they’re taking a holiday from all their hate but they’ll be back and just as stupid commi as ever.
“At dinner parties, they ask each other the same question: How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?”
But but but.... the mission is woke.
No one is trying to force them to do this. It's long since a done deal. The rot is everywhere.
What it means is how can we make sure we are not hiring a Social Justice Warrior. They want someone who is a coding Warrior who stays focused only on writing code.
Capitalism is a really terrible and unfair socio-econmic system except for at the others...
Likely a major factor was some wannabe-engineer Progressive (someone here can remind me) who weaseled her way into altering a major open-source license agreement, legally compelling developers to adhere to unrelated “social justice” behaviors - or forego their already-deep dependence on some major open-source code. She thought she was being clever and progressive; instead, likely started the avalanche of “stay on task”.
A society is truly flourishing when such crap can, itself, flourish - despite the obvious detriment to society.
flr
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