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Captivating, well-written piece. But who is the author of this? No credits, no info: very intriguing! I'd be interested to see what else they've written. [Edit

Captivating, well-written piece. But who is the author of this? No credits, no info: very intriguing! I'd be interested to see what else they've written. [Edit: looking at submissions from that domain, I think the writing in a couple of the other articles seem very similar.]

ryukafalz 8y ago
>looking at submissions from that domain, I think the writing in a couple of the other articles seem very similar. It's a quick webpage creator, akin to pastebin with formatting[0], so that won't tell you much about the author. [0] http://txti.es/about http://txti.es/about
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Alex3917 8y ago
> But who is the author of this? The writing style is very early 2000s, which kind of narrows it down. Based on the content alone there is no obvious reason to publish this anonymously, so maybe someone caught up in #MeToo or similar? Based on the writing style though it sounds clearly like it's from someone associated either with Technorealism, the Cluetrain Manifesto, the Berkman Klein center folks, the Data & Society folks, or the handful of other prominent early bloggers who aren't closely associated with any of those. No one less than 30 or older than 70 writes like this though.
mc32 8y ago
It's probably best its authorship is (for now) unknown, this way people can make judgements on their own rather than thinking is right or wrong based on how they perceive the author(s).
- shanghaiaway 8y ago
  Why?
  - edoceo 8y ago
    Because humans judge the quality of the message by the messenger. If the messenger is unknown, we (likely) just focus on the message
    - Alex3917 8y ago
      Especially since the first sentence alone is enough to tell it was probably written by someone well known.
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Barrin92 8y ago
It reads like one of these Nick Land / Yarvin neocreactionary blog posts so my money is on one of them.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
  There's a whiff of unqualified reservations to the style, yes.

ryukafalz 8y ago

>looking at submissions from that domain, I think the writing in a couple of the other articles seem very similar. It's a quick webpage creator, akin to pastebin with formatting[0], so that won't tell you much about the author. [0] http://txti.es/about http://txti.es/about

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Alex3917 8y ago

> But who is the author of this? The writing style is very early 2000s, which kind of narrows it down. Based on the content alone there is no obvious reason to publish this anonymously, so maybe someone caught up in #MeToo or similar? Based on the writing style though it sounds clearly like it's from someone associated either with Technorealism, the Cluetrain Manifesto, the Berkman Klein center folks, the Data & Society folks, or the handful of other prominent early bloggers who aren't closely associated with any of those. No one less than 30 or older than 70 writes like this though.

mc32 8y ago

It's probably best its authorship is (for now) unknown, this way people can make judgements on their own rather than thinking is right or wrong based on how they perceive the author(s).

shanghaiaway 8y ago
Why?
- edoceo 8y ago
  Because humans judge the quality of the message by the messenger. If the messenger is unknown, we (likely) just focus on the message
  - Alex3917 8y ago
    Especially since the first sentence alone is enough to tell it was probably written by someone well known.
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Barrin92 8y ago

It reads like one of these Nick Land / Yarvin neocreactionary blog posts so my money is on one of them.

B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
There's a whiff of unqualified reservations to the style, yes.