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.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    “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
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      9 hours ago

      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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        8 hours ago

        This is fair, but I always read these things as basically name-dropping.