Fucking conehead should haul ass back to Remulak
Does he come from France?
Wow. His head looks like a literal egg.
My hair is thinning and people say just go bald. These people don’t know the real shape of my head
This dude founded Netscape… the predecessor to Firefox. Just speechless to be honest. You’d think the guy whose browser was destroyed by Microsoft’s anticompetitive behavior would be more progressive.
He is an accomplished investor founding the a16z venture capital fund and a tech software developer. All that other weird stuff, idk if any of that is actually true.
Took me a while but now I’m laughing and wife at the other side of the room is asking why but I can’t, I just can’t…
Zippy!
Can you believe the comic is still being drawn?
You can find an even better (worse) picture of him on his Wikipedia page.
That’s an unfortunate head shape for someone to be bald.
He’s unfortunate in general.
His wife is hot though.
And a trash like him
In 2022, Arrillaga-Andreessen and her husband advocated against the construction of 131 multifamily housing units in their affluent town, Atherton, California.
You just need to say Atherton. One of the richest of the richest cities in the US. And all of them rabid NIMBYs.
Crazy that they look like different people between the OP image and the Wiki.
Yeah I thought the same which is why I felt compelled to post the link to his wiki page. He’s a fatass in the Wikipedia page.
Read into his Wikipedia a bit, never heard of the guy. Seems he’s a cofounder of Netscape? And ning.com, which I’d never heard of. Its wiki page describes it as
a free-form platform for the development and hosting of open-source “social applications”
Sounds cool at a surface level, kinda like what we have here! But then I read on…
February 2018, Ning launched a monetization platform, enabling users to earn an income from their social websites
Oh… And sure enough, I load up ning.com itself and behold=
“Money, money, money!”
Just want to let you know because of this post I searched up the head and am watching the first episode now. Im loving it so far. Man they don’t make good old stoner shows like they used to. 90s MTV is a little before my time but early to mid 2000s adult swim shows were the shit.
This show came on alongside another one called The Maxx which is also worth checking out.
Hey… That show was fucking amazing, do not belittle The Head!
What’s funny is i can’t tell if the nickname is a joke or not
Look at his head.
Recall Trump wears a diaper.
Yeeeeeah.
Here’s the introduction (aka “Pillar I”) to the plan currently being implemented: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Some highlights:
From page 20 of the project: “Vought (officially in charge of OMB after being confirmed recently) writes that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should establish a “reputation as the keeper of ‘commander’s intent,’””
From page 21: " In Chapter 1, former deputy chief of staff to the President Rick Dearborn writes that the White House Counsel “must take seriously the duty to protect the powers and privileges of the President from encroachments by Congress, the judiciary, and the administrative components of departments and agencies.”
Page 28: “When a new President takes office, he will need to decide expeditiously how to handle any major ongoing litigation or other pending legal matters that might present a challenge to his agenda”…“, the President should hire a counsel with extensive experience with a wide range of complex legal subjects. Moreover, while a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best one will be above all loyal to the President”
Page 32, regarding the office of presidential personnel (DOGE): “Playing “bad cop” in a way that other White House offices cannot (including serving as the office that takes direct responsibility for firings and hirings).”
Remember when we were told Project 2025 wasn’t real and that we shouldn’t panic? Good times.
I don’t know if it’s better or worse that they’re so transparent with their goals… being able to watch it unfold in slow motion is agonizing.
I literally just bought a trump bible off amazon to put at the front door for gestapo repellant. That’s where I’m at with all this.
Yet again another tech nerd turned fascist. I am beginning to think that learning computer programming is inherently damaging to the human brain.
He’s not a tech nerd any more than Elon is. They’re just 80s business guys who are riding the tech wave instead of whatever the fuck the wave was in the 80s…so…cocaine?
programmers themselves usually aren’t fascist, it’s the billionaires… and none of them can code
It kind of is? If you’ve ever built a computer game, even with a software that walks you through it, it is a completely different way of thinking. It’s very black and white, the switch is either on or off. Also, you follow a direct path while trying to keep your code “clean.” No emotions, just planning it out trying to get to your destination.
I don’t think anything is black or white in programming (except booleans). And I’d say it can be very much emotional, it just depends on your goal and how you reach it. For me, I’d say programming is like painting or wood carving. It’s a tool that can be used to create art.
You’re right, I can say that’s fair that it’s a tool. But there are craftsman that build something useful and artists that make worlds. While programming can be both types of artists, they lean heavily towards craftsman that have rules.
if you dig deep into hardware you’ll learn that theres no such thing as a pure 1 or 0. check out an eye diagram of a bit error rate test.
It’s not the programming. It’s the power and financial success. Back in the day it was the oil buisnessmen.
This is the reality. Not these pseudo-psych takes. Learning to program made me more socialist, as I realised the entire internet, and success of modern computing and information systems, was mostly the result of FOSS (socialist) software. Walled gardens and proprietary software are now the bane of my existence.
If you look deeper into every tech billionaire/oligarch, most of them were already born into the richest 1%; all born on 3rd base and believing they hit a home run.
I am now nearly certain that extreme wealth and power create the mental illness of narcissism (or at least surfaces/activates these tendencies, suppresses empathy, etc). Add in the fact that capitalism actively rewards narcissistic and criminal actions, and you end up with nothing but criminally corrupt narcissists.
Broke: Capitalism made your iPhone!
Woke: Socialism made your iPhone
Social Darwinism is the term fo your concept!
Very well reasoned!
As an IT guy i think I may have a theory.
I would consider technology to be inheirantly fascist, everything is utilitarian, superflous data is bloat.
You have an admin class that set the rules for the programs to enforce for the user.
In a well organized system, everything is very neat and tidy, names/types that don’t fit are quickly and easily corrected.
This is why tech-bros go fascist, they are replicating the idea of computer order onto hummans, where is absolutely idiotc
This can be - and has been - generalized to all industrualization.
Tolkien wrote Isengard the way he did for a reason.
The history of Brutalist architecture is closely associated with fascism as it promotes societal ideals of a neatly segmented and ordered life.
Henry Ford. Just, Henry Ford.
Elon’s technocratic nazi grandfather.
I would also like to remind everyone that fascism is simultaneously extremely dangerous but doomed to fail. That obsession for finding rigid rules where there aren’t any, of constraining the real world to simplified models, makes fascists eventually lose touch with reality because they can’t account for the messiness and human factor. At first they destroy everything they touch, kill anyone that doesn’t fit the model. They then make fatal, obviously irrational mistakes like opening an Eastern front in Europe before tidying up the Western one because the Ideology says Bolsheviks are weak. Attacking the US in Hawaii. Not installing Lidar in supposedly self-driving cars. Invading Ukraine with an incompetent army and cardboard supplies against a dug-in western-supplied army.
It’s not particularly helpful to the tens of millions killed by fascism yet, but at least we can rest assured that the fascist technosolutionists will lose and that plants will grow out of their corpse.
set the rules for the programs to enforce for the user.
Stallman was uhhh, correct, or something.
I think you’re overlooking all of the free and open source software and people like me who work in the industry and are radical leftists.
The more likely connection here is that these are all rich CEOs…
Self sorting?
Idealistic ones open source their software.
Greedy pigs try making billions.
Fair take, and applies in every industry. Basically what I’m trying to say is it’s all about capitalism baby. The shit floats
Yep, this. Thanks for saying it!
Some of us want to use technology to do all those nice lofty things like send cat memes and connect with our friends with only as much “administration” is necessary to protect it.
Ok, that is a good point, I can absolutely see that I may be wrong to call is fascist, but it is definitely authoritarian, where the coders decide the rules and the program enforces them, I can see that applying a left/right political bias can be wrong.
Code is a language that can describe all sorts of systems, some of those systems have rigid hierarchies and some of those systems are distributed.
Software development teams also tend to work in collaborative ways, as much as Agile and Scrum development practices are bastardized in many large companies the core philosophies are very worker-empowering.
In the cases where companies use “waterfall” or misuse Agile the culprit seems to be managerial interference or very rigid and important requirements (e.g. a plane software system that must not fail)
I see your point, but per the above I would say it’s not universal and I would also counter that software architects have very open-ended solutions to choose from and are used to thinking about a system as a whole, which in my case at least leads me to questioning how our political and social systems can change for the better.
in my case at least leads me to questioning how our political and social systems can change for the better.
Glad to see like-minded people here! I actually just finished a manifesto on this exact topic:
https://arendjr.nl/blog/2025/02/new-monarchy/
It’s quite the read, but I’d be happy to hear your feedback.
Not like minded… I’m not opposed to the principles you lay out in your abstract but the monarchy power structure isn’t what I’m interested in.
Socialism, communism, and ultimately anarchism are the way forward in my opinion.
You may be on to something an it kills me these asshats made all their money by taking from Government funded programs like Basic and from community free and open source projects.
Breathe. Punctuate.
I don’t like Nazi’s in my government nor in grammar.
Also many techbros think they are incredibly intelligent and good at all the smart things when many are like the surgeon who is good at their specialty but are fucking morons in all other regards.
You want to know what makes Elon so great? He can buy things.
He bought Tesla, he didn’t invent electric cars.
You and me can buy stock in companies like Tesla too. But we can’t buy a 50% stake.
He is also willing to take risks. But it is so much easier to take a 1 million dollar risk on a few start ups if you have 250 million.
These techbros may very well be competent at some things but their number one qualification is their immense wealth.
If ben carson could read he would downvote this comment
Honestly, even that is being too generous.
Programming has this crazy mystique of being something that only “smart” people do, but it’s not. Software development is much, much more like a more conventional ‘trades’ job. I’ve been writing software for 15 years, and I feel like I have more in common with plumbers and electricians than I do with doctors or engineers.
The problem is these people solved some novel problem in the world with their programming skills and it made them really rich. They have been lavished with praise, money, and attention their entire lives. They think they’re smart and that gives them license to invite themselves into other areas that they have no experience in. An example is obviously Elon Musk wading in to government, but even back during Covid he was making predictions about the spread of the disease, even when he had no background in medical science. His predictions were wildly wrong.
Nah it’s not.
Been doing it for 3 decades now, I’m still a normal human being who hates fascism and billionaires bect both make a large group stuff just to make a tiny group feel special
In my opinion, it’s mainly the money.
And then a couple thousand years from now we have the butlerian jihad, thanks.
Technology generally does whatever you tell it to and the surveillance options are nuts. Any tech is gonna be used by shitbags if they can benefit from it. The problem is when someone is connected or has money they can be a literal sociopath and gain positions of power where they attempt to control people like they would devices, and sometimes no one stops them for a long time.
That’s not how this works. That dude basically stumbled into running a multi billion company when he was barely more than a kid. And quickly ran it into the ground, I might add. Yet he somehow thinks he is a genius and smarter than everyone else. Plus the isolation from the real world that being rich brings makes these people lose touch with reality.
Pretty sure I’ve seen the video
Oh I know the one. Like a hotdog in a tunnel.
My god, the shape of his head will make Dr.Robotnik jealous.
Americans have a thing for pedophiles.
Conservatives do, but I wouldn’t call the American, they hate this place and everything it is.
Pedophiles - driving the P in the GOP
Clinton and Gates also associated with Epstein… so did Chomsky.
We can drop the left right circle jerk… They all partied together because they rule US.
Hurp durp both sides! Shut up.
Just remember is that “voting” is how we got here, dear;)
They miss the USA from before the 60s. The 1860s.
Maybe America was never great.
It was great before the settlers came and stole the Land, killed the owners, killed the animals and exploited nature.
I think during and after World War 2, we did some really great things.
It’s a shame most of those things were funded by tax dollars and now we have been conditioned to hate taxing those richer than us.
Conmen have pretty much had free reign in the US since the 70s. It’s an indicator of success because they’ve been so successful at conning us.
The last time America was great, they were busy killing Nazis
