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Guy who owes his fortune to public funding of research wants to tear it all down.

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                • electricboots 1y ago
                  kneecapping corps for being racist seems like a reasonable use of the legal system all things considered, no?
                • dzhiurgis 1y ago
                  touche
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        • 123yawaworht456 1y ago
          >white folks wanted Black characters, but not actual Black people. based
    • gjsman-1000 1y ago
      … by reverse discrimination in many companies. Changing words doesn’t change practice. Inventing words like “unhoused” doesn’t fix “homeless.”
  • UncleMeat 1y ago
    Andreesen says that its been 60 years of "discrimination" against white people. My alma mater didn't even admit women in 1965. He says that immigration is "discrimination." The world he pines for is a world of explicit and massive discrimination against women and non-whites. Andreesen is calling for the NSF to be destroyed. What does that have to do with DEI? The Trump administration is demanding that universities expressly hire conservatives as faculty and admit conservatives as students. Where's Andreesen's concern about this? If Andreesen gives a shit about merit, why'd a16z hire Daniel Penny when his entire "qualification" is killing somebody on the subway?
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  • DoctorOW 1y ago
    A friend of mine involved with the Coast Guard lemented someone who was fired in Trump's DEI purge. She was hard working, and well respected by those who worked for her, but she was a woman so she was deemed "without merit". The problem I have with the anti-DEI stuff is that they have no means of proving merit. They're just seeing someone who is a minority and imagining a more qualified white guy.
    • ethbr1 1y ago
      The truth here is that bureaucracies are shit at implementing nuance -- they'll do DEI poorly; they'll do anti-DEI poorly. The original point of merit exams wasn't that they were objective, but that they were outside bureaucratic control, which ended up producing better results than the status quo. Anti-DEI especially is being implemented in such a rapid manner that it's no surprise incompetent people are making bad calls, because nobody will question them if it's "anti-DEI". Such is the great harm of strong beliefs + groupthink: they justify bad decisions by covering them as compliant decisions.
• davidw 1y ago
  And it's all for some really ugly reasons https://bsky.app/profile/sifill.bsky.social/post/3ltrkbtyam22c https://bsky.app/profile/sifill.bsky.social/post/3ltrkbtyam2...
  • arp242 1y ago
    I remember when the video first came out and EVERYONE was up in arms about it. Left, right, centre, far-right. People normally ranting about Deep State Democratic Nazi Communist Satan cult led by extreme-left Muslim Barrack HUSSEIN Obama were up in arms about it. Everyone. That's because it showed, at best, a wilful shocking disregard for someone in clear distress not just in the heat of the moment, but calmly for ten long minutes. It's absolutely unreal how politicised it became.
    • davidw 1y ago
      Yeah, to your point, Mitt Romney marched in a George Floyd protest.
• cameldrv 1y ago
  Yeah specifically NCSA where he and Eric Bina developed Mosaic was created by an NSF grant.