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by zweep 7y ago
That’s a rather cynical view. I think of it more like: “culture” is one of the few ways to control people at scale. If you are a product team on Apple’s Live Photo’s feature and you are thinking about what telemetry to collect, if you look
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by zweep 7y ago
The way I recommend reading it is, there is something in those ideas that you can act on, in a constructive way, in your own life, without hurting anyone.
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by zweep 7y ago
A much better piece of writing on this topic is “Industrial Society and its Future,” also known as the Unabomber’s Manifesto. You have to forget who wrote it and also ignore the worst 20% of it to get the most out of it though.
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by zweep 7y ago
Well would you use a song about the “Chancellors of Germany” to advertise the Maccabees’ next game?
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by zweep 7y ago
I don’t think you have the context. President Andrew Jackson violated a Supreme Court ruling to basically commit a genocide and expulsion of the Cherokee from land that was theirs by treaty.
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by zweep 7y ago
What's really sad is that now even children's BOOKS are now mainly a promotional channel for TV shows and toys. Book characters like Pete the Cat or whatever exist mainly to prime children to desire the Pete the Cat toys.
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by zweep 7y ago
I heard a President’s day ad for a Jeep CHEROKEE that had a song with the US Presidents in order. I don’t know if they got to Jackson shudder
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by zweep 7y ago
Someone once did do this to me on the off chance I would remember it. I did remember it. And the memory of it is now one of the proudest things I look back on in my professional life.
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by zweep 7y ago
By not naming and sharing the first company you’re doing the world a disservice. The powerful have convinced the world that being polite is more important than being truthful because politeness furthers the continuation of existing power st
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by zweep 7y ago
I believe that the allure of being in an Internet mob is that it inverts the traditional monarch-subject power structure. Normally the crowd must cower before the individual King... in an Internet mob you can take even the highest status in
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by zweep 7y ago
What works for one of the wealthiest and most famous women in the world may or may not work for a knitting blogger. It would a far riskier play for the blogger than for Rowling.
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by zweep 7y ago
Well you did see people just Tweeting the results from their precinct in all of this which managed to produce a good picture of what was going on. So you don't even need a collaborative document!
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by zweep 7y ago
Someone takes an anonymous poll or has the courage to speak in public. The classic example is the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
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by zweep 7y ago
These high profile knitting bloggers make their money from their knitting blog. My wife for example follows them on Instagram and buys their products. Being “cancelled” is like being fired from a job for them.
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by zweep 7y ago
She absolutely had the need to apologize, she was facing forces much more powerful than her who could destroy her livelihood. Don’t fault the peasant for kneeling before the King.
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by zweep 7y ago
Jeez... it almost seems like social justice warriors could be a false flag operation by virulent racists, with how effectively they can turn sensible moderates against everything that they stand for.
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by zweep 7y ago
What did Azure DevOps do for you that Asana didn’t, and what are the problems it created? At what stage / situations would you recommend it?
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by zweep 7y ago
Beautiful. And, let’s give some honest thought about whether if you added a bunch of people from low-trust societies to the mix at the office, whether such behaviors would endure.
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by zweep 7y ago
It's the infrastructure for self-hosting web apps. So, on top of Sandstorm, you could get a Dropbox-like app, or a Google Docs-like app, or a Flickr-style app, hosted on a box that's in your living room or on your own server in a
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by zweep 7y ago
But in your war criminals dialogue, the “Yes” from the leftist provides cover to compress all administrations on the dimension of war crimes, dismissing LBJ/Nixon/GWB by saying “Carter was a war criminal too.”
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by zweep 7y ago
You used to have to pay money for the NYT pre-internet too. There was an anomaly in the middle but NYT reporting costs big bucks and someone’s gotta pay for that shit, either the reader or the advertiser.
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by zweep 7y ago
Which statistics?
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by zweep 7y ago
Google Wave had this exact thing, practically to the pixel.
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by zweep 7y ago
What exactly is the pun being made here?
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by zweep 7y ago
I only speak pseudonymously now and throw out identities the way that drug dealers throw out cell phones. And even then, with the threat of future AI-assisted doxxing I don’t discuss some topics, online or IRL, that I freely discussed IRL p
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by zweep 7y ago
What's wrong with that? If the idea behind a company is worth say 10 or 20% of the company, then the idea of limiting a blogging service to 140 characters, or the idea of blurring people's smartphone pics to make them more "a
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by zweep 7y ago
And that’s why the “Hoover up all the data” approach will win. Google can snoop on everyone’s emails and locations and transaction receipts and find the location and names of businesses automatically, and even their opening hours.
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by zweep 7y ago
American suburbs are relatively high trust environments (and used to be much more so). It’s quickly fading though.
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by zweep 7y ago
I remember discovering iPad split screen more than a year into owning one. It was like magic, then I didn't know what I had done to invoke it. I started trying random stuff looking for the incantations and eventually gave up and Google
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by zweep 7y ago
Imagine rewriting Microsoft Windows in Java and making it behave like old Windows. It just isn’t ever going to happen.

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