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The machine has no mouth and it must scream | UZPG

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I’m in a coworking space on the 25th floor of a building in the bay. In the corner of my eyes, the red figure of the golden gate shimmers. Good morning America. I look down and see the people on the street walking into their offices, cafés, and autonomous Waymos. I stare onto San Francisco and feel its striking energy. I have been drawn to this place ever since my family left when I was a child, off to France. This is the gathering place for those who have the courage to uproot their lives to do something big. Do things that scale. Reach billions. Change the world. When people drop out and go somewhere with a dream, they go to SF. Because they want to make the world a better place. Or at least that’s what the twitter dudes say. As I walk through the streets, past the drugged and the homeless, in the shadows of the biggest companies of the world, I feel the inane scale and contradiction of the American dream. San Francisco – with its ads for programmer tools and AI chatbots, its crazy p

The machine has no mouth and it must scream | uzpg The machine has no mouth and it must scream 07 Mar 2025 11 minute read Also on Substack I’m in a coworking space on the 25th floor of a building in the bay. In the corner of my eyes, the red figure of the golden gate shimmers. Good morning America. I look down and see the people on the street walking into their offices, cafés, and autonomous Waymos. I stare onto San Francisco and feel its striking energy. I have been drawn to this place ever since my family left when I was a child, off to France. This is the gathering place for those who have

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