camdenlock

Many HN posters have been pointing this out, yes. It’s getting a bit tiring, but I will once again repeat my multi-decade observational summary:

This aesthetic is the norm for the tiny (but rapidly growing) sliver of humanity who, like the author, favors their constructed Internet identities instead of the less-mutable shared reality that we all inhabit together.

Such persons tend to be impressively talented with respect to the tiniest minutiae of information systems, somewhat emotionally volatile, obnoxiously socialist in political alignment, and somewhere on the autism spectrum.

(Source: am a trans woman who is perfectly content with her identity and form here in our shared reality as a human male. There are more of us than you might think, because it really isn’t a difficult thing to reconcile.)

> Some Veeps will be redeployed to other teams

I really hope this ultra-cringe trend of referring to our employees and colleagues by twee corporate demonyms comes to a swift and timely end, especially in serious contexts like this one where the CEO is announcing that a bunch of people are being booted out.

I’ve never been more sure.

You’ll want to avoid Metafilter unless you’re interested in narrow discussions hemmed in by a very specific and limited ideology (think: Foucault, Marx, academia, etc): https://www.metafilter.com/guidelines.mefi

I mean it in the sense of rejecting the “constraints” of our nature and seeking to move beyond them as far as possible.

Had the same thought while reading. Kept checking to make sure I wasn’t reading BuzzFeed by mistake.

I continue to be terrified that some day in the future, in a moment of weakness, Valve will allow itself to be swallowed by Microsoft…

Reading this article, I got a vague vision of an elementary school student chosen by the administrators to be a hall monitor, gleefully tattling on his fellow students…

Yes.

What a dreadful Marxist way of viewing something so dynamic and interesting, something that has and continues to delight many of us, not to mention provide us with the means of living incredibly lavish lives by the standards of our forebears.

Software deserves much better than this myopic nonsense.

It sounds like a lot of people are encouraged by this work. I’m taken aback by the name, though. I looked around their site and couldn’t find an explanation.

“No suspects have been named in the shootings, and investigators have yet to announce a potential motive.”

Why is it seen as acceptable for a government to tax people for the privilege of transacting in their (the government’s) markets, but it’s seen as bad form for a corporation to do the same?

The character of this hysteria reminds me a lot of how the mainstream media obsessed over Trump in the 2015-2020 era.

> All that said, this person was likely more suited to a platform of hot-takes, rather than deep thinking.

As, of course, is jwz.

Smart people who we admire for their thinking and writing on technology can be embarrassingly shallow when it comes to other domains, and (as I’ve reluctantly learned over the decades) can be safely ignored when they opine obviously way out of their depth.

Maybe some of us have no particular opinion on Musk either way, but rather are shocked by the narrow-mindedness of the response to Twitter opening up and not being so ideologically captured.

In this case, it’s a way to signal one’s fealty to a very specific ideology.

oh god no please don’t put this idea out into the universe

I’m broadly referring to the project of modern progressivism, a tidy summary of which could be: ”We will have an ideal society when we rid ourselves of the unintelligent in our way.”

Suspect how?

Unelected bureaus of experts imposing their own enlightened social vision on a captive citizenry. Doesn’t get much more authoritarian than that.

This is so one-sided, it’s practically propaganda.

The author rails against but ONE of the major threats we face in our economic & political systems, while actively embracing the evil authoritarian beast just across the way.

I have a hard time respecting anyone who so easily sacrifices individual liberty in order to chase out the bogeymen of the moment.

Make sure to check out the rest of his site. Amazing. Pay careful attention to the recursive box on the “works” page.

Yeah, it couldn’t be possible that a person is capable of making and owning decisions for their own life…

This is the typical mode of expression for these post-human / trans-human types.

Aggressive ranting language, extreme emotional volatility, narrow collectivist vision, and very deep technical analysis & know-how.

Been this way for decades, at least as long as I’ve been paying attention. It’s a culture.

Yep, this person nails the primary issue. Distributed or federated social networking won’t take off until we have a worthwhile self-sovereign identity solution, aka BYOID (Bring Your Own Identity), where the sole controller of the identity is the individual with the private key.

It’s a very difficult problem to solve and to turn into something easy to use for the masses… but it’s required for such applications as Mastodon to truly be enticing.

As-is, we should not expect Mastodon (or similar systems) to gain much traction outside of a few niches.

“Responsible” according to whom? As if everyone agrees. Hint: we all have our own opinions.

You’re free to give away your money as you see fit, but man, such sanctimonious and collectivizing language is lame.

This is utterly ridiculous. Even if the generated content is repulsive, it’s still generated; no one is being harmed. Stop this babysitting nonsense.

What’s stopping Ethereum from gaining zkapp support?

Is “scientist” some sort of sacred occupation? Are you a scientist? Can anyone be a scientist? Are credentials required? Which credentials do you accept? Is Derek Lowe sufficiently credentialed such that his statements should be treated as sacred?