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‘You’ll hold out for a while’: Silicon Valley now pushing to implant chip in your brain, knows you’ll give in eventually (wegotthiscovered.com)
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[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's much worse now. Some of these people actually did impressive things earlier in the 21st century. Now they're 90% grifters

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It’s always been 90% grifters. Survivorship bias

[–] iglou@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Well, yes, but there was also a lot of bullshit that we simply dont remember because it disappeared after the great purge that was the internet bubble pop

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

90% is very generous.