Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I genuinely wonder if years of training one's self to be "rational" makes you forget how fundamental stories are to the human experience. Journalists write stories about real life, for good or ill. If something happens in real life but isn't a story, it doesn't get printed. "Random lady plagiarized her thesis" is not a story, but "lady related to major plagiarism story also plagiarized her thesis" is a story.

His observation that EA suddenly got piled on is missing a more subtile point: lots of the coverage of EA was probably an extension of the tech beat and thus benefitted from the access journalism and rosey-glasses'd that was rampant in the early aughts before a more critical eye was cast in the last few years. Tech Won't Save Us does a good job explaining the phenomenon (ctrl+f "access" in the transcript) in part of its Musk series.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Scott is to Journalists as other Scott is to Women.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

I actually didn't recognize the name (or I would have made a big deal out of it in the OP) but this being the CRT guy tracks.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago

I can't believe you targeted him 🎯 by googling his name and finding out he's eugenicist scum.

(Seriously, thanks for slogging through the comments to find gems like this.)

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

Sometimes the author includes images that are just a pun. A better illustration for this article might be a man angrly flinging a newspaper into a trash can.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Also notable because I don’t think it’s very often that eugenics grievances breach the surface in such an obvious way in a public siskind post

This one comes to mind.. Like EY's recent endeavor it's written as a roleplay so as to be nigh-unreadable by anyone without extreme tolerance for not getting to the fucking point.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

I'm here for it.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I can’t understand people who watch streams of other people playing D&D but I know those are wildly popular.

I suppose people also watch other people play video games which is about the point where I started to feel like a confused out of touch elder.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

When I tried to read it I felt like I was illiterate.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

glowfic enjoyers

A real category?

Seems like a write-only medium.

But then, LitRPG also exists, much to my confusion and dismay.

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