At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It’s like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” …

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

  • David GerardMA
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    231 year ago

    the wonderful thing about this story is the effort Forbes went to to dox a nazi

    • @GorillasAreForEatingOP
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      1 year ago

      I highly suspect the voice analysis thing was just to confirm what they already knew, otherwise it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack.

      People on twitter have been speculating that someone who knew him simply ratted him out.

      • David GerardMA
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        141 year ago

        i mean, probably. but also, nazis are just dogshit at opsec.

        • @GorillasAreForEatingOP
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          151 year ago

          I still find it amusing that Siskind complained about being “doxxed” when he used his real first and middle name.

          • @selfMA
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            171 year ago

            posting a screenshot to preserve the cringe in its most potent form:

            yeah BasedBeffJezos is just an ironic fascist persona that has nothing to do with who I am, that’s why I’m gonna threaten anyone who associates me with BasedBeffJezos

            • @maol
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              111 year ago

              Whoever said that all twitter bluechecks talk like anime villains was spot on

              • @selfMA
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                111 year ago

                you might not like the consequences for exposing me as BasedEyesWHITEdragon yu-gi-boy!!!

            • @gerikson
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              91 year ago

              Dude doxxed protest too much.

          • @TinyTimmyTokyo
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            101 year ago

            Reading his timeline since the revelation is weird and creepy. It’s full of SV investors robotically pledging their money (and fealty) to his future efforts. If anyone still needs evidence that SV is a hive mind of distorted and dangerous group-think, this is it.

    • @Evinceo
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      121 year ago

      I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn’t dox Slatescott.