It must be exciting when you find out your startup is in the only industry that's in VCs sightlines, and it must be fucking exhausting crafting a pitch for them.

The VERA story of pet euthanasia reinforces my bias that there is nothing good to be gained at an industry conference, so I'm tempted to believe it's true. Either it's truly insane marketing copy crafted to suck up sociopathic VCs attention because these people live in hell, or it's actually real and they're happy that they've created ~~Uber~~ a killbot for dogs because these people live in hell.

Even when you luck out and somehow get a chance to win at capitalism by a coincidence of destiny, it still eats your soul.

Whew, this was brutal to read. Very well written but I need a drink

especially love how she describes how tired everyone seems

Should have ended on ‘when the man comes around’.

Bonus Jim Jones reference too. But what the fuck was the chatbot stuff about domestic abuse or putting a dog down - thats Black Mirror* tier nightmare shit. Thats a fuck no from me.

*shout out to piggate.

I've only just started in on the article, but I like the writing style. Reminds me of David Rakoff's carefully incisive voice. I loved his essays.

Maybe it's just because it's all actually real, but there's a mind-melting yet quiet horror to this article that I feel Lovecraft could only dream of imagining.

Like some sort of Ionesco's Rhinoceros mixed with a reverse Kafka's Metamorphosis, grotesquely stretched over Primo Levi's If This Is A Man.

That's probably too convoluted of a metaphor to mean much to anyone else, but, fuck, I don't have the energy or the will to unpack it further than that.

To think, when I first read the post title, that my initial reaction was "here we go, techtakes has finally gotten too edgy for me".

I need a cigarette and a scalding hot shower.