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.
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.