Re: the recent Wired magazine piece "Inside the Gay Tech Mafia"

from Sad Francisco · host Toshio Meronek

Friends Stab and Trung both texted me when about a recent, very Sad Francisco-coded feature in Wired magazine. Here's a little response, inspired partially by an impromptu reading group a few friends did around the piece. Mentioned: Alexandr Wang Barry's Bootcamp Gawker.com Melania's box office Peter Thiel Sam Altman Tim Cook TW for brief mention of Sam Altman sexually assaulting his sister, and the US war assault on Iran including the AI-assisted murder of kids there. Zoë Bernard, Wired: Inside the Gay Tech Mafia https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-gay-tech-mafia/ Ryan Grim, The Intercept: The Death of Peter Thiel's "Kept" Romantic Partner is Being Investigated as a Suicide https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/ Owen Thomas, Valleywag: Peter Thiel is totally gay, people Blog post that Peter Thiel didn't really love https://www.gawkerarchives.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press: documentary on Netflix following Peter Thiel's successful quest to bankrupt Gawker.com by funding a lawsuit related to a Hulk Hogan sex tape https://www.netflix.com/title/80168227 Episode: Aesthetics of the New Rightwing Tech Intelligentsia with Jimmy Wu https://www.patreon.com/posts/aesthetics-of-wu-148707467

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