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no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

— America's Lounge Singer (@krang.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM

‘America’s Lounge Singer’ Krang T. Nelson is… not a polished writer. But I’m tolerant of such, when there’s rich invective to be shared, so tales like the one excerpted below have raised my spirits on some difficult days:

I am old enough to remember when our tech overlords were just a bunch of scrappy young entrepreneurs who were actually going to save the nation. I know this statement sounds straight-up laughable in 2025, but back when I was in middle school guys like Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg were actually held up as genuine societal saviors – true geniuses who were going to lead America out of our previous century of global dominance and into yet another Age of Glory. This was the era of the Unbelievably Sorkinized Facebook story, of the first iPhone, of apps themselves! Everything seemed possible (at least to my undeveloped child brain) – any problem we faced as a culture would be solved by a bit of ingenuity, coding, and gross looking guys in shitty little outfits and shitty little hairstyles who promised us they were only interested in solving those pesky problems that were holding us all back. Smash cut to now and we can see with absolute clarity that most of this so-called “innovation” or whatever was a bunch of the same Ivy League assholes finding a way to deregulate markets and destroy the world for their own enrichment. They were not interested in saving anyone, they don’t care about your problems, and they are very, very far away from being geniuses. In fact, they might be some of the dumbest people in the entire goddamn country.

Let me start out here by saying that there are many different kinds of intelligence – mathematical, spacial, linguistic, musical, artistic, etc. I myself am a Level 6 Empath with the North American Empath Guild. But most of the tech overlords in America nowadays seem to have just one specific kind of intelligence, which is How To Use Computer To Make Money. I’m not sure if any of them are full-stack developers or Java-fluent or even know how to write CSS – but they seem to understand labor law pretty well. What is so fascinating about our current crop of oligarchic computer guys is that they have literally *zero interest* in any information outside of that one, narrow field. They are so fucking incurious about the world they claim to have a superior mastery of, and they love showing their ass about it. They don’t care about art unless it can be packaged off as a piece of code and endlessly replicated for profit like NFTs. They don’t care about world politics until it threatens their ability to sell their bullshit products in country’s that actually regulate things for the safety and wellbeing of their citizens. They don’t care about labor markets or communities or families or creativity or anything really. They want you to live in the pod. They want you to eat the bugs. And they have no desire to comprehend how a bug-eating, pod-living society of AI-unemployed citizens might negatively impact them personally. It’s been said many times before, but Comp-Sci majors should be forced to take at least a full year of humanities courses. At gunpoint.

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