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How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley (2021) (thebaffler.com)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Consider also Sam Altman, who once argued that “we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics”

Good grief, I had forgotten about that.

As a queer physicist, what can I say but "suck a bag of dicks, dipshit"?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Altman's line is what you write when you have nothing novel to say about physics but really, really want to say disparaging things about gay people.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

And Altman is gay himself!