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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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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Arguably, they have ruined it.

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