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At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” ...

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” ...

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

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[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

imagine huffing your own farts this hard cause you came up with BasedBeffJezos and posted garbage on Twitter that was so out of touch that monstrous every billionaire instantly agreed with it

[-] self@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago

oh also, meta-ironic cult is also a term used by Remilia and some of the other Thiel death cults to describe themselves

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

"to any feds reading my feed: jk jk"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

A fart-huff that hard qualifies as an Alvistime miracle.

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