Oh, *Now* They Care About Politics?

Right. So apparently the shiny happy people of Silicon Valley are having a collective existential crisis. For decades they just sucked up government money, ignored all societal consequences while building addictive apps and data-slurping empires, and pretended to be ‘apolitical’. Now, because their precious AI toys might actually face *some* regulation – regulations that, shockingly, the rest of us have been asking for for YEARS – suddenly everyone’s a political strategist.

The article basically says these tech bros are realizing that Washington isn’t just a free ATM anymore. They’re scrambling to throw money at both sides (because *that* always works, right?), hire lobbyists like they’re going out of style, and generally try to manipulate the system they previously ignored. They’re whining about “anti-trust” and how regulation will stifle “innovation” – which is code for ‘we want to do whatever we damn well please without any accountability’.

And get this: some are even trying to look *concerned* about democracy! Like they just discovered it exists. It’s all incredibly transparent, self-serving bullshit. They’re realizing that public opinion might actually matter when you’re talking about things like AI safety and data privacy. Who could have predicted that?

Honestly, the whole thing is pathetic. They built a world on disruption and now they’re terrified of being disrupted themselves. Good. Serves ’em right.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

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You know, I once had to debug a system where the entire network crashed because some ‘innovative’ engineer decided to rewrite the routing protocol in Python… during a production release. Production! Said he was “experimenting”. Experimenting with *my* uptime. This Silicon Valley political awakening feels about as well thought-out and likely to end badly as that little fiasco. Don’t expect anything good from these people.

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