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Freelance journalists, adjunct professors, and anonymous posters are not a unique threat. They are one of many threats. Nearly every person on Earth has their o
by biophysboy 1y ago
Freelance journalists, adjunct professors, and anonymous posters are not a unique threat. They are one of many threats. Nearly every person on Earth has their own tailored infinite black mirror. The mechanisms of the medium encourage it. The idea that social media was ever not sectarian is silly.
- ARandomerDude 1y agoWhen I hear "freelance journalists, adjunct professors, and anonymous posters" the first word I think of is "democracy", not "threat". The idea that anybody gets to say whatever they want is how you have a free society. Treat those people like threats and you have authoritarianism. Whether the end result is left tyranny or right tyranny, I don't want it.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoI used to think that when the internet wasn't what it is today. Now I hear 'unearned appeals to authority and randos whose opinion/thoughts I wouldn't care about in real life'.
- biophysboy 1y agoI like journalists and professors personally, much more than the avg HN poster. I'm being provocative: we edit our own feeds, and so our collection of follows threatens our sense of the world.