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weasel_wordson Ben Barbersmith: Cryptocurrency is bad. For the planet, for consumers

Link to the actual article the twitter post is about: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...

weasel_wordson Yayagram

Agreed! Give it a killer steampunk look and you've got yourself a win!

weasel_wordson Researchers Take Down Botnet Pretending to Be Millions of People Watching TV

I'm just sad it wasn't a botnet to bump ratings.

I was hoping that society was saved and that "The Kardashians" was, perhaps, only so "popular" due to this botnet.

weasel_wordson The culture war is killing us [video]

"As technologists, how can we work to rebuild regional and local political and economic sovereignty?"

I always thought it fascinating how "technologists" thought themselves somehow able to solve social issues. SV is a glaring example of this - Mark Zuckerberg anyone?

Anecdotally, I know many people in the MMO game industry. Wonderful people, but none have more than average EQ. Most are extremely awkward and/or have social anxiety (which, in part, is what drove them to become gamers in the first place). It is really interesting to watch them struggle with trying to figure out what "social" features to add, but cannot grok what actually makes something social. Trying and failing over and over -- sometimes on the most obvious things.

Why would you think you could solve social problems when you, yourself, aren't a social animal?