I like that whoever wrote this initially had a wife in their fantasy life. The wife stops getting mentioned like two posts in. I want a full reboot of this series based on her life
OK. So, this next thing is pretty much completely out of the sneerosphere, but it pattern matches to what we’re used to looking at: a self-styled “science communicator” mansplaining a topic they only have a reductive understanding of: Hank Green gets called out for bad knitting video
I was wondering about the origins of sneerclub and discovered something kinda fun: “r/SneerClub” pre-dates “r/BlogSnark”, the first example of a “snark subreddit” listed on the wiki page! The vibe of snark subreddits seem to be very different to that of sneerclub etc. (read: toxic!!!) but I wouldn’t know the specifics as I’m not a snark participant.
how Silicon Valley’s made its money for the past 20 years
So much for silicon valley’s ability to innovate.
Aside: it sucks that SV chuds are developing a future where surveillance capitalism is operating at peak capacity and there’s no privacy by default. And it also sucks that most of them believe that this is going to be some kind of utopian, transhumanist future. Augh.
Trying to figure out if that Siskind take comes from a) a lack of criticality and/or the ability to read subtext or b) some ideological agenda to erase the role of violence (threats of violence are also violence!) in change happening, or both
Unfortunately, for me, this is sailing a little too close to the critihype line. I don't think writing these weekly really helps the bit.