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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 66 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Silicon Valley built the modern world.

Why shouldn't we ruin it?

I think it was a typo. I put the “i” back in.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 17 hours ago

Arguably, they have ruined it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 17 hours ago

Someone ask if those fucks wanna see how much of the modern world was actually built by China? Wanna let them run it instead?