Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn’t we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    1394 days ago

    Judging by the rate at which every commercial piece of technology that exists gets enshitified nowadays, I don’t think they should be the ones building the modern world either.

    • @Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      794 days ago

      Silicon Valley built the modern world.

      Why shouldn’t we ruin it?

      I think it was a typo. I put the “i” back in.

      • @bitofhope
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        154 days ago

        Someone ask if those fucks wanna see how much of the modern world was actually built by China? Wanna let them run it instead?

    • ObstreperousCanadian
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      104 days ago

      We’re going to discover that “move fast and break stuff” wasn’t even truly a strategy that worked to build success in Silicon Valley for anything other than extracting investor money.

      • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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        42 days ago

        I don’t know, I think by their stated goals they did alright. They took investor money, yes, but they used it to move very quickly and break a lot of things. Now, we should probably have seen ahead of time that this was actually a bad thing and that breaking things is a bad goal, but it was the 2000s and we all thought touchscreen digital watches were pretty neat.