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.”

  • @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.