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Threw me off too. Like why???

danpalmer 18d ago
It's a tech bro thing. Altman does it too, and I've worked with people in the past who do it. I read it as "I'll take literally any conscience for myself no matter how minor, at any cost for you no matter how big".
- mackeye 18d ago
  why take the least charitable possible reading D; i've always read and intended it as inviting informality. i also don't find it harder to read at all (most people don't know some find it harder to read: i didn't)
  - _superposition_ 18d ago
    I didn't take it any particular way besides maybe a hint of informality. Regardless it definitely threw off my reading in an unpleasant way. Anecdata point for the poster maybe. I would read again.
  - danpalmer 18d ago
    I don't read it as informal. Childish or lazy perhaps, at best. When you intend it as "inviting informality", you're implicitly doing this because "formality" is too much effort. The thing is you're not inviting, but rather demanding. You have decided the conversation is informal and low effort, and that's how you'll treat it, without considering the person you're communicating with. This is of course all a lot of strong statements and these things don't matter as much as this sounds. I don't feel _that_ strongly about these things, but the lowercase thing always strikes me as just plain weird, and deconstructing why I feel that way this is where I get to.
- thousand_nights 18d ago
  it's an internet thing. people were typing lowercase on IRC in the 90s.
  - krastanov 18d ago
    there is a very big difference between starting an ephemeral instant message without capitalization, and lacking capitalization throughout a more "persistent" long-term medium
  - xdennis 18d ago
    It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentence. So typing in all lowercase is a choice. I think it's a way to signal "I don't follow norms". It signals membership in a group.
- neutronicus 18d ago
  I actually think of it as a tumblr thing. Like my first thought whenI see it is that the person who wrote this runs in queer or activist circles. Not my read on OP, but “tech bro” is not my first thought associated with the style
zeroonetwothree 18d ago
Reverse signaling

It's a tech bro thing. Altman does it too, and I've worked with people in the past who do it. I read it as "I'll take literally any conscience for myself no matter how minor, at any cost for you no matter how big".

mackeye 18d ago
why take the least charitable possible reading D; i've always read and intended it as inviting informality. i also don't find it harder to read at all (most people don't know some find it harder to read: i didn't)
- _superposition_ 18d ago
  I didn't take it any particular way besides maybe a hint of informality. Regardless it definitely threw off my reading in an unpleasant way. Anecdata point for the poster maybe. I would read again.
- danpalmer 18d ago
  I don't read it as informal. Childish or lazy perhaps, at best. When you intend it as "inviting informality", you're implicitly doing this because "formality" is too much effort. The thing is you're not inviting, but rather demanding. You have decided the conversation is informal and low effort, and that's how you'll treat it, without considering the person you're communicating with. This is of course all a lot of strong statements and these things don't matter as much as this sounds. I don't feel _that_ strongly about these things, but the lowercase thing always strikes me as just plain weird, and deconstructing why I feel that way this is where I get to.
thousand_nights 18d ago
it's an internet thing. people were typing lowercase on IRC in the 90s.
- krastanov 18d ago
  there is a very big difference between starting an ephemeral instant message without capitalization, and lacking capitalization throughout a more "persistent" long-term medium
- xdennis 18d ago
  It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentence. So typing in all lowercase is a choice. I think it's a way to signal "I don't follow norms". It signals membership in a group.
neutronicus 18d ago
I actually think of it as a tumblr thing. Like my first thought whenI see it is that the person who wrote this runs in queer or activist circles. Not my read on OP, but “tech bro” is not my first thought associated with the style

zeroonetwothree 18d ago

Reverse signaling