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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
"The long-term goal is to reinvent the Internet of 25 years ago, but worse."
what do you mean you don’t want a search engine but much less efficient and much, much worse? you don’t like progress?
I'm starting to think tech wants us to hate tech so we'll stop having hopes for tech so they can just sell tech to military in multiple countries. I get the strong feeling that all these people in tech viscerally hate that average users use things they created like email, SMS, RSS feeds, etc etc etc. @self @blakestacey
Military contracting comes with actual requirements and product has to be up to spec, can't have that