With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
I miss UT, but mostly because he was the only one close enough to the burning centre of the tech bro cult to actually be aware of the same things as me. Ah well at least everyone can mock Big Yud with me now.
I really need to write my “people’s history of transhumanism” one day
Really? Cause he only ever talked about tech and tech culture like he’d heard about it in passing from an old hippie that was actively tripping on shrooms, his tech bro cult rants were always so off-the-mark they struck me as pure hallucination
They seemed very specific to a certain part of silicon valley, all I can say is that if you’ve encountered that very niche set of ideas within the niche of silicon valley culture itself, it made some sense.
But I wasn’t really around for peak Ulysses T posting anyways. I only started posting regularly a few months ago. So maybe I’m wrong.
I had issues with the specifics but he definitely had close contact with Big Yud and the proto rationalist set, as well as 90s-early 2000s transhumanist silicon valley types.
If you were more closely aligned with the softer Doctorow style tech types it might come off as strange vibes though.