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Long Now promoting NFTs, lost my respect. https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054 https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054
by mattl 5y ago
Long Now promoting NFTs, lost my respect.
https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054 https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054
- tomjakubowski 5y agoDang, that's too bad. Never follow your heroes on Twitter, I guess.
- kragen 5y agoIt's really unfortunate that the top-voted reply to my comment is some kind of partisan struggle applause light that has no relationship whatever to anything I said, to me, or to the topic at hand. (Edit: fortunately no longer the top-voted reply.)
- mattl 5y ago
- sequoia 5y agoYou chose to make a statement by using a method of formatting dates almost no one recognizes, and is therefor predictably confusing and distracting. If you didn't want to start a conversation about this topic, why did you make this statement in the first place? If you'd your conversations not be derailed by discussion of esoteric date formats, that can achieved very simply: use the typical date formats everyone is familiar with.
- kragen 5y agoYou've implicitly glossed mattl's comment as "discussion of esoteric date formats". But it didn't discuss any date formats; instead, it launched into an unprovoked and irrelevant attack on an organization that date formats reminded them of, presumably in hopes that I was somehow associated with them. The problem is that there are bullies posting personal attacks, not that I'm the one being attacked. It's true that when griefers and bullies are around, it's the tall poppies that get cut down. But locating the problem in the poppies rather than the scythe-wielder is obvious nonsense. Someone looking hard enough for an excuse to attack others, Twitter-style, can always find a victim.
- mattl 5y agoI don’t care if you’re associated with them. I do want people to see them for what they’re doing. But you also brought this on by using their propaganda, perhaps in an attempt to promote them or perhaps not.
- kragen 5y agoI'm not responsible for your antisocial behavior. Knock it off.
- mattl 5y agoIt’s anti-social to call out an organization for their bullshit? Knock off posting 5 digit dates and people won’t call out their bullshit. Or yours.
- kragen 5y agoHN isn't here to give you a platform for callouts, particularly irrelevant and content-free callouts. It exists for the sake of curious exploration, not chimpanzee dominance games. Offering me ultimatums in this way because you are unable to control yourself at the sight of a five-digit date is a particularly egregious violation of these norms. Knock it off.
- astrange 5y agoAnd here I thought they were just a weird coffee shop in Fort Mason.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y agoAlso, when you start claiming to be gods, you better be real sure that there really aren't any other gods. Mythology and literature is full of really bad things that happen to people when they claim to be gods.
- debo_ 5y agoI was entertained to see jwz as the second tweet on that thread; a voice and tone that hasn't changed in 20 years of reading his stuff. It's comforting.
- mattl 5y agoHe’s the best. I figured this too late.