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This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further billions down the drain over what will eventually be the Humane Pin 2.0.

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Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s

Wow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars

That’s a brave look

Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...

That was a style then. It may not be your thing or mine, but it's not puzzling that someone was caught up in a fashion style of the times.

If you watch any 2000s comedy film, or just do a high level skim of 2000s pop culture, that was a very standard trendy attire back then. My parents were into me looking like that in school at the time as well + for photos.

I am quite sure long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt will eventually make a come back, given all the nostalgia wave from Gen Z, experiencing their grandfathers teenage years.

long sleeve layered under a band tee is one of my favorite things actually

It was a preppy frat bro look of the mid-aughts.

It got pretty ridiculous. I had a few people in my classes that would do 4+ layers and show up looking like an artichoke.

https://www.verdalina.com/blogs/journal/the-popped-collar

It was a thing for a while in the early 2000s, mostly as a preppy status symbol. It was pretty much iconic SV founder uniform for a short time.

I like it actually :)

No comment about Loopt or his work since then however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt#SMS_invitation_issues

Just happy to see anything other than grey on dark-grey. The colors are very Apple/SONY too.

2000s Silicon Valley chic

"You'll never have to eat lunch alone--or at a bad place--again"

Classic SV

Funnier when you consider what Loopt amounted to.

Altman is such a shyster

Wow, unbelievable find

what a find

incredible

whoa

God, I still cringe every time I see that.

Looks like a wedding invitation

To a degree that feels intentional.

Becoming more vertically integrated would also just be profitable.

I wonder why so many ex apple followed this particular path of Kool Aid? or maybe this says more about how the rank and file are just as susceptible to kool aid as any average Silicon Valley schmuck

I don't think it's Kool-Aid, I think it's "Apple has notoriously low salaries for a FAANG and OpenAI will probably have a trillion-dollar IPO". You can see right through Altman's charade and still want to work for him for equity.

The slurping of the kool-aid is not limited to SV. I've seen it at a couple of companies I've worked at in the past. Both were media/post type of studios where one you've probably heard of before and the other probably not. They both had employees that had their tongues stained the color of the kool-aid they drank. Seeing people wearing the SWAG shirts and hats of the company they work for in the office is just so cringe to me.

I'm not a huge fan of my old company, but they had great fitted & soft T-shirts. I wish I had more...

You like advertising for something you're not a huge fan of for free? The logic fails me

Comfy shirt to wear during yard work, working on the car, painting a wall, or laundry day around the house. It's reasonable to me.

Some people just don't like buying shirts.

Time will tell.

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