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All In on Selling Out

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All In on Selling Out

Collage time. I took an image from the most recent Wired politics issue from a Steven Levy article about the decidedly traitorous Silicon Valley denizens whom people like me used to look up to and thought were disruptors and fearless resisters to the status quo.

Turns out they were all just bootlickers.

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←Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
MP Daily Telegraph: October 14, 2025→

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