Discussion

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  Marc Andreessen is on a historic posting streak: “Over the last two weeks, the co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has tweeted a startling 350 or so times” https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @chafkin Max Chafkin on x

  i support @bradstone's current thing https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @ryanlawler Ryan Lawler on x

  Give me a billion dollars and I will never shitpost again https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @markmilian Mark Milian on x

  “Here are three high-profile, exorbitantly wealthy technologists, apparently finding midlife satisfaction in shitposting” https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  .@BradStone zeroes in on the sometimes-bizarre spectacles on Twitter from tech billionaires Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  The current thing is truth. Arguments against the current thing are misinformation.

• @spakhm Slava Akhmechet on x

  This is an excellent essay. Structurally, maybe PG's best. I can usually spot a few bugs, but this one is logically airtight. (I don't think I'm saying this because I temperamentally agree with every word, but can't be 100% sure) https://paulgraham.com/...

• @jesslivingston Jessica Livingston on x

  “My hope is that this essay will help form social antibodies not just against current efforts to suppress ideas, but against the concept of heresy in general.” https://twitter.com/...

• @quasimondo Mario Klingemann on x

  Unfortunately those who need to read this most might already be so deep inside their ideological filter bubble that they'll see this essay itself as a heresy. https://twitter.com/...

• @ldrogen Leigh Drogen on x

  I think this essay should be judged based on whether you can swap out Paul's intentionally generic “heresies” for “fascism” or “naziism” What he's basically saying is that there is no line ever below which there should just be full stop “this is a no don't say it” I disagree http…

• @crypto @crypto on x

  At last week's Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Peter Thiel unloaded on the perceived enemies of Bitcoin. Here's what he had to say https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @technology @technology on x

  The current thing: Tech billionaires are talking and tweeting with unusual fervor https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @tvietor08 Tommy Vietor on x

  The hottest new hobby for tech billionaires in the midst of a midlife crisis is...shitposting! (Or whatever it takes to pump up and prop up their crypto investments) https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @retalk_network Peter Zaborszky on x

  @paulg What's going on with old school Silicon Valley people suddenly coming out as fundamentally against current progressive/woke behaviour? Is this a sign of a shift in silicon valley, or an exit by these people from Silicon Valley?

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  @lastridgely One encouraging sign is that intolerance seems to peak among millennials. Younger generations are not as bad. Judging from memes, teenagers are completely over it.

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  @retalk_network They've always been against it. Practically all successful founders are accidental moderates ( https://paulgraham.com/...). But most keep quiet most of the time, because they have companies to run.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @wowsuchcurrency True, I do support the current thing haha!

• @bradstone Brad Stone on x

  At least one current thing: Tech billionaires sh*t-posting and stirring up drama. My @technology Fully Charged newsletter this am: https://t.co/FWAkI3nV1U via @technology

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Billionaire shitposters from ⁦@BradStone⁩: What Is ‘I Support the Current Thing’ Meme? Ask Elon Musk, Andreessen - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  Heresy: https://paulgraham.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  To support the current thing is to bask in the sun-lit warmth of the universities and the press, the foundations and NGOs, the Fortune 500 corporations, the government bureaucracies and administrative state, the grant-making agencies, the singers and athletes, Davos and Aspen.

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Supporting the current thing combines the rush of rebellion with the safety of the status quo. What better feeling can there be than that?

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Old money supports the current thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  The Laptop Class supports the current thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Email job holders almost always support the current thing, which they carefully exhibit via their email headers and footers. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  The current thing kills. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  When health food stopped being the current thing, it merged seamlessly into the super-toxic sugar/carb overload food-industrial complex, and nobody cared. https://twitter.com/...