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@ Eric FJ
2025-05-22 16:59:10
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“This photo is Silicon Valley self-mythology at its most indulgent. It’s not just awkward—it’s a carefully manufactured image meant to evoke reverence, intimacy, and legacy, but ends up exposing a deep insecurity: the desperate need to be seen as important.
Jony Ive, once the voice of minimalist transcendence, now leans his head on Sam Altman like a weary oracle whispering aesthetic blessings onto a new tech messiah. And Altman, the boy-king of AI, stares out like he’s already been cast in marble, despite having built a product that’s barely out of its chaotic adolescence.
This isn’t about design or innovation. It’s about myth-making. Two men, posturing as cultural architects, frozen in a grayscale tableau that screams, “We are the moment.” But the truth? It looks more like a eulogy for authenticity—a soft-focus monument to the ego rituals of the tech elite.”