Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Robert Roskam @raiderrobert@mastodon.social

6/14/2025, 1:00:23 PM

Public

People almost never recognize the fallacy at play here:
- Softbank invested $18B in WeWork in total
- Microsoft invested $100B in Bing over the years
- Meta invested $65B in AI just in 2025

That's just the labor theory of value.

Spending a lot of money means a lot of human labor on something. And it has never meant that it's automatically good.

Sudden, large amounts of money often implies mal-investment. Or stated more bluntly, we're wasting people's lives many times with this stuff.

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