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

TranscriptA 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.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 128 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours 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.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 73 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Silicon Valley built the modern world.

Why shouldn't we ruin it?

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

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 23 hours ago

Arguably, they have ruined it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 22 hours 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?