{"id":447178,"date":"2026-01-30T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:49:26","slug":"grindcore-culture-turns-tech-workers-from-flabby-nerds-to-warrior-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447178\/","title":{"rendered":"Grindcore culture turns tech workers from flabby nerds to warrior monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 28 last year, just a day after Thanksgiving, an engineer at xAI earned gushing praise from his colleagues online after posting a photograph of his Tesla Cybertruck with the caption: \u201cLast night I left the @xai office after ~36 hours of working with no sleep. Although I was dead, I was also super energised \u2026 Happy Thanksgiving!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley has for years embraced hustle culture, initially spoiling employees with free meals, laundry services and playful office spaces in order to cheerfully smooth the way for long office hours.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On November 28 last year, just a day after Thanksgiving, an engineer at xAI earned gushing praise from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-447178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}