Monday, February 3, 2025

quit substack if you care about BIPOC people

Jeff Bezos is a walking turd, and nobody can deny that. 


my life as a ceo is over yet it never began : r/memes


Just look at the guy. He's having a 500 million dollar wedding Amazon delivery drivers piss in water bottles. Sure, shouldn't the world's richest guy luxuriate once in a while? 5 million wedding I can understand. Have a triple chocolate mousse cake. Hire DJ Khaled. Once in a lifetime event - oh wait, dude's already divorced, well, twice in a lifetime I guess? But 500 MILLION dollars is just excessive. That's more than the GDP of Tonga. Spent in one day.


So I'm all for boycotting Amazon. Quit the Washington Post. Send some bad juju to the next Blue Origin mission. Say a prayer to whatever God that Lauren Sanchez's boob implants rupture. 


Wait - rewind - that cartoonist that quit the Washington Post in protest? She ran to Substack?? 


The Substack Nazi stuff is blowing up just now but I can't say I'm surprised. It's been known in tech circles for a while now about Substack's "approach to free speech" - people joined Substack specifically because they agreed with their mission. A queer female BIPOC friend[1] who interviewed at Substack asked about diversity on their engineering team after the interviewing panel was all white bros. "Well, depends on what you mean by diversity, I'm from Europe." Needless to say the friend did not take the offer. 


Substack is smaller than Amazon but in ethos it is no different. Its founders are sucking Elon Musk's dick and previously did a startup for pedophiles grooming underage girls, sorry, privacy-centric anonymous chatting. Cool cool cool. 


Note that I'm not arguing for or against diversity here. I'm saying that if you're a lefty AuDHD #BLM no-human-is-illegal person that claims to live according to your values, starting a Substack is not it. Like how tweeting about how your followers can donate to RAICES to support the border crisis is still tweeting, which is still lining Elon Musks' fat coffers. Do your research. The founder of Substack "doesn't regret" having a racist on his podcast. Racist, his words, not mine- "having once published extreme and racist views". 


I can hear you crying: what should I doooo? Open your eyes. Tech companies are companies. Look it up in the dictionary. Companies (n.), funnel of money from normies to the CEO's pocket. Notice how I didn't say anything about morality. Tech companies pray only to one god and that god is dollar bills. The god of "being a good person" is dead. Maybe it never existed. The only way is to start your own company. Profit off the backs of desperate writers with your leet hax0r skillz. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the enemy.


Addendum: There is one other way out that I can think of. Blog updates via carrier pigeon. Pigeons are domesticated and thrive in human captivity. This is good - you can support a pigeon rescue and give an animal a good life, while benefiting from its natural homing and flying instincts. You say the problem is that it doesn't scale? Maybe the problem is your desire for scale. 




this guy's available! isn't he cute?


Addendum 2: "But what about your blog?" I know for a fact that Blogger is a cost center, aka, losing Google money. Just look at it. It's 90% dead, the design looks like it's from 2001, they didn't even take the low hanging fruit to integrate with Google Analytics; there's too much inertia to kill it even though Google needs to fund a team of 20 engineers to maintain it (15 of which are resting and vesting). So by using this platform I am actually giving a well deserved middle finger, albeit a small and probably not noticed middle finger, to Sundar Pichai, who, despite his "mild mannered" public persona, is actually an asshole ruining Google. But that's another post.


[1] your reaction to this says more about you than it does about me


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