Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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    1 year ago

    Free Guy is 2021.

    Mark Beaks from Disney’s 2017 Ducktales remake was ahead of its time with regards to asshole Silicon Valley type CEOs, and obviously has a few riffs on Elon Musk as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPhrnUtQ5U

    Ducktales turned out really well. You’ve got the long-running protagonist Billionaire, Scrooge McDuck and his long-time rival Billionaire Glomgold. However, as a 2017 reimagining, they added the Silicon Valley type Mark Beaks and it was chef’s kiss perfect. Old money vs new money is still a relevant subject a hundred-years after the “Gilded Age” of the 1920s / 1930s, that these characters were originally based on.

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      1 year ago

      I think Pirates of the Silicon Valley did a good job of this many years ago