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

TranscriptA 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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Construction workers built all the houses.

Why shouldn't they own it?

[–] thepenismightier@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

The guy who made the electric babysitter...

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 139 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Judging by the rate at which every commercial piece of technology that exists gets enshitified nowadays, I don't think they should be the ones building the modern world either.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 79 points 4 days 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 31 points 4 days ago

Arguably, they have ruined it.

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[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We're going to discover that "move fast and break stuff" wasn't even truly a strategy that worked to build success in Silicon Valley for anything other than extracting investor money.

I don't know, I think by their stated goals they did alright. They took investor money, yes, but they used it to move very quickly and break a lot of things. Now, we should probably have seen ahead of time that this was actually a bad thing and that breaking things is a bad goal, but it was the 2000s and we all thought touchscreen digital watches were pretty neat.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 52 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Btw, he isnt the creator, he is just the fourth engineer they hired. He is much more a content creator (and game patent asshole) than the creator: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Community:Shedletsky

E: he also created this "A Bridge Too Far is a game that was created on September 21, 2007. The objective of the game is to blow up the bridge." Which as a Dutch guy just makes a lot of alarm bells go off. (In market garden the bridges needed to be taken intact). Im not saying he is a crypto neonazi btw, it is just a dumb bad name.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That makes it somewhat worse.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, people keep repeating that he is the creator of Roblox all over the place, it is really odd. He is just the richest guy there, the Elon Musk of Roblox (Captain obvious here, this is meant mega derogatory).

E: I see what you did there :)

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thank god I deleted roblox.
Plus It doesn't work on Linux and I don't wanna use windows anymore

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 38 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The tweet before that:

Let me tell you something about Akash. During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. I panicked. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night—better than before.

This says more about you, the scale of the project, bad organisation of your group, and the lack of challenge of Berkeley (nice namedrop though) group projects, and the failure of understanding the excersize (the goal is to learn how to work as a group and notice the networking problems), and the goals of being at a university (networking, partying and learning) than anything else.

Hell I know of a project that also did this and they didnt manage to rewrite the project, as it actually took a lot of time.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Akash:

Let me tell you something about Jon. During a project at Berkeley, our group was utterly fucked because of his shitty code additions, so 2 days before the deadline we pretended that Jon had deleted our entire codebase. While Jon panicked, I substituted a version with his shit deleted and went home and got high - and told him I'd rewritten it from scratch in one night.

Edit: BTW how is it even fucking possible for one member of a team to completely delete an entire codebase, including all previous versions? Did he go to every other team member's computer and accidentally delete their working copies too? His story might make sense if it was 1981 and the whole team was sharing a single VIC-20, but he wasn't even born then.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

My thoughts exactly. Most likely a single member had a part of the code they were working on and never shared and deleted by accident.

Even then it shows little professionalism. A local git repo can do charms even if you never intend to publish.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair a couple of people at my school were so far ahead of the pack that they could do this kind of things. One of them was a really cool dude who lifted his teammates, the other a pretentious asshole who once rewrote my friends' parts of a project because it was not up to his standards, they were pissed lol.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, you are right, which is why I didnt say that, should have been more explicit and mention that it was possible. Esp if it was a first year project and someone had a decade of programming exp already (but then the lack of versioning us weird, but also not impossible, as coding vs project management are different skills).

E: But it gets weirder : https://xcancel.com/gmchariszhang/status/1886361422445138099#m they were using git. Indeed https://xcancel.com/martinmalindacz/status/1886390223141048749#m

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm with Martin on this one, smells like bullshit.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

“Hey guys, I’m cool because once I completely fucked up everything and now I’m taking credit for the work of someone else!”

What a loser, goddamn.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair - even though this asshole doesn't deserve fairness - that tweet is very obviously giving full credit to Akash (whoever that is) and not to himself. He's admitting a huge blunder but he's not taking credit for the fix.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Imagine if Akash spent the night making improvements instead of rewriting from scratch though.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

nah that is not how real coding works. we should see digital waterfall of numbers and a timer bar that goes like "Code base %55 complete..." while the guy codes.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If two people share a keyboard they'll be able to code faster.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

They did that in NCIS.

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do they not have version control or something?
Was the project stored on a flash drive they found in the back of a drawer?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah that is also what makes it strange, like was this their very first project, did he study CS in the 90s? Did their profs set them up to fail so they learned from that? Did they prank him? Did he delete it on purpose (that is how the project I knew of did it (there was this blog post (or something similar, without any proof im just going to blame ESR, hell he prob wrote something like that) at the time that told people to write a project twice, once as a draft then delete everything and do it again knowing the old pitfalls))? The very specific set of things that are needed for this to be possible is just odd. Makes me wonder if Akash just had a local copy because Jon just was that tech illiterate.

A high r/thathappend feeling.

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[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Roblox is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with capitalism

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

What? What's not to like about child slave-wage labor making tiny games for other children, whilst making the company infinite money all the time? /s

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

This has some real “Larry I work on ducktales” energy

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 79 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

I'm pretty sure that if we fed a handful of fascist billionaires to a wood chipper, the rest would be much easier to manage.

[–] orionsbelt@midwest.social 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i'd pay for tickets to that event.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Odd, because a huge part of the problem is that Silicon Valley is running too much of the modern world. Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google et al run their respective ecosystems as a de facto government. An unelected and undemocratic government.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're not running it, they're taking giant narcissistic shits all over it.

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[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

His way of saying that he wants to charge us a subscription fee for breathing

A world run by Roblox would mean worldwide child labor, getting paid in company scrip and widespread abuse. That's why you shouldn't run it, asswipe.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago
[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The world you built is proper shit. That's why.

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[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, you mean the guy who invented the thing that works on child labor, takes children’s pocket money and exposes them to predators?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

Oh, you mean the guy who invented the thing that works on child labor, takes children’s pocket money and exposes them to predators?

Oof. That doesn't narrow down who we're talking about nearly as much as it should.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago

Silicon Valley built all the worst parts of the modern world. Most of the genuinely useful discoveries and technological innovations were made in govt funded academia, and co-opted by industry into creepy ways to control whole populations

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

The development of AI came from our stolen personal data. Why shouldn't we communalise it?

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago

Didn't DARPA and University research and a shitload of public funding technically build the modern world?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You'd really think people would look at the state of the world and try to wash their hands of responsibility, not take credit. Just how out of touch is Mr child exploitation.

It's a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Because government and society are not a fucking video game you pretentious jackass.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 29 points 4 days ago

Yeah, because Roblox is the model we want to shape society after. The fucking hubris is of the charts with these arseholes.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hahaha get the guillotines out.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago

Been sniffing your own farts much?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

So that's why he lets children became nazis there? That's why he lets pedophiles roaming freely? That's why his company added predatory monetization?

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Did he donate to Trump? Would we see federal institutions paying workers robux?

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