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Whose interests can be likened to the intersection between acoup.blog, cat-v and Annas-archive?

I have a hypothesis that 1/8 of fatherhood is treating the most interesting things about your life like a FOIA request is needed to get you to tell them.

As far as I've seen, The Free Press' major crime is not necessarily what they cover but that they are egregiously tactless and their bias doesn't convey "good faith". With that being said, this article actually isn't that bad (if bad at all).

The "diversity" training described here sounds bizarre. I've yet to find any rational defense for it aside for the fact that the the people most vocally against it are supposed to be the cause of it on paper. Oddly, I'm steadily coming across instances where this training seems to target people who likely didn't hold problematic beliefs toward other races prior to this sort of DEI training. The whole practice reeks of sabotage from a more powerful establishment and lacks the polish possessed by Black Civil Rights activists of the past.

The most glaring thing about this article to me is that I didn’t find the author having mentioned that he had any significant offline relationships prior to taking a year off. I mean, he encounters various people under an array of pretenses throughout the article, but I can’t help but wonder what his issue could have been with connecting with people without the internet with these different encounters taking place within the year. In this sense, the story as an experience raises more questions than it answers because I don’t know the guy.

But at the same time, this account fits right in with more recent ones that I’ve come across about how difficult it is for people to find social networks offline, particularly for young men (I think the author was in his late 20s when this was published?).

I understand and I agree with you for the most part. Most of what we're discussing exists in a grey area to me, one that can only be clarified if we differed to real-world norms at the expense of forfeiting some of our natural inclinations in a digital space. As much as it may be in a person's best interest to provide an explanation for their exit and expunge from an online community, I'd offer a similar argument, that it would be in the best interest for certain people to differ the responsibility of checking in on the person's well-being to those who are known to have an actual relationship with them (i.e. one that isn't predicated by the environment that the person is tearing themselves away from in drama-inducing fashion). I think that this where scale becomes an issue, like you said.

The internet is a strange place, where ceasing to care about being online occupies a performative space similar to caring about being online. The fact that instances such as Pilgrim's and _why's are referred to as a form of "death" itself is telling. Why even strike such a grave association to begin with?

The idea that these occasions violate some unwritten moral/social contract of the Web is strange to me also. I understand the inconvenience (which is proving to be short-lived with regard to the mirrors that appear afterward), but I greater empathize with the act of revolting against a medium that abstracts the social sciences beyond what humans were prepared for prior to its inception.

My impression is that you know that there's nothing "wrong with you" and that the dynamics expressed by that recruiter in part 2 explain enough (to me at least) and indicate your own awareness that there's nothing wrong with you.

It sounds like you may need an outlet to vent, not necessarily "your frustrations", but maybe you need a way to outline or give a retrospective account of the past ~40 years so that you can come to terms/appreciate your journey thus far (which sounds very interesting).

Start a blog or a newsletter or something and tell your story. Respectfully, I think that it would be a great opportunity for you to "give back" to the new crop of 20-something, motivated self-learners out there. In general, I think readers in the fields that you have done work in can benefit from real accounts such as the ones I'm sure you have to share. I'd like to read more from you.

Because I can differentiate between being upset over something, especially something that is a minor inconvenience relative to other things that can occur in a man's life, but not being upset to the extent where I dislike those responsible for it.

I mean seriously, stop for a moment and think if "I don't dislike the guy who runs the company that inconvenienced me and I think things may turn out okay" warrants the association that the person who feels like this would be sexually gratified by his wife sleeping with another man.

The most interesting part of this are the Mastodon posts underneath the initial one that insult this Vaught's integrity for not taking the handle repossession personally.

Maybe he just doesn't care that much. Inconvenienced, evidently, but to stake a personal dislike towards a human being for this seems unwarranted.

This comment is sensational, but the article here is eerily similar to one also on the front page published by the WSJ:

"It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36826335

Thank you for this. It feels like this article undermines the history of the region. To even evoke the Arab Spring, to me is an easy way to sound informed without acknowledging how/why the affected regions “sprung”. It’s an interesting supporting detail, but maybe “root causes” is a pun or something.

He was most certainly not a scholar.

This and Honk are great because they dare to be different visually and functionally. Ted’s casual criticisms of ActivityPub and the federated software that uses the standard are also informative. I think that his experience as an OpenBSD developer gives his work a different edge and appeal compared to others.

I stand corrected. Thank you!

The author's website is designed to look like the OpenBSD manual's web page. This is a blogpost about mandoc/markdown in the form of a man page...for mandoc...very clever.

http://schwarze.bsd.lv/mandoc.7

Also apparently the submission title needs (2017).

I'd be interested in KeenWrite if it supported MacOS. Your pandoc/ConTeXt guide is top notch. ConTeXt is very underrated.

Good choices. If I may join.

Unica77: https://lineto.com/typefaces/unica77

GT America: https://www.grillitype.com/typeface/gt-america

Atlas Grotesk: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/atlas/atlas_grotesk

Tiempos: https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/tiempos-text/

Sohne: https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/soehne/

LL Medium: https://lineto.com/typefaces/medium

Replica Mono LL: https://lineto.com/typefaces/replica/

Canela: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/canela

Druk: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/druk

My guess is that their interests lie somewhere near the advocacy of something like a techno-democracy. Where "tech" is used dually to refer to "technocracy" in the traditional sense and as alluded to in this article, "technology", as an extension of government.

https://www.noemamag.com/approaching-the-infopocalypse/

https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t...

An interesting NYT profile from last year on Nicolas Berggruen:

https://archive.is/ScoBe

The fact that he publishes informative pieces at such a steady rate is remarkable as well. And the fact that he resisted to use the phrase "deep dive" in this particular one is indicative of a high level of discipline with his prose.

That has to be a mistake.

The tone of some of these entries are…poignant, to say the least.

Is it the notion that people identify journals and diaries as repositories for a certain kind of self-reflection? Or the relationship between sadness and nostalgia (the nostalgia being held in the platform)? Or both? I think both.

Interesting website.

Unless you don’t have anything indicative of a community already in place then this isn’t a sound enough motive.

There is no obvious counter-cultural movement in the West because there is nothing deemed subversive enough by major institutions that hasn't been commercialized to some extent. If we are viewing things on a political spectrum, the right and the left each claim to be bucking the values and traditions of "the establishment" with the approval and encouragement of both sides of the "establishment" one way or the other.

This reaction isn't targeted toward all UX blogs...but some of the one's that I've come across go a little too far with their rhetoric. Some of them have this overt "romanticist" bend to them that can come across as overblown from a user's perspective. The constant appeals toward aesthetic ("beauty, elegance") and emotion ("sparking joy") put me off.

I don't mean to downplay the effects that good and bad UX design have on people. It matters, but where it matters most (rental property portals, banks, healthcare industry, etc.) is where things like "beauty" and "joy" matter the least. This leads me to question the type of software, web pages, etc. that these sort of designers/bloggers are speaking on behalf of and how these kind of blogs run parallel to other hand-wavy bodies of writing authored in the tech industry, or any other industry for that matter.

Granted, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic appeals and the like, but if you're going to make one it shouldn't sound like a Steve Jobs WWDC keynote speech generated by Bard. I feel like there's an intangible quality to expressions on aesthetics in a way (although most of the time there are identifiable reasons for their appeal if you think hard enough). Some UX blogs lack that.

I felt like this was one of them.

I’m seeing the same thing. Sorts Mill Goudy also comes in a single weight and it looks like the author is forcing CSS font-weight values beyond 400 for their headings.

Off-topic: I think UX blogs give me the heebie jeebies.

Windows do not have URLs.

> In the world of Almost Famous, Instagram would be the social network for the Stillwaters, the Russell Hammonds, the Penny Lanes. Beautiful people, cool people. Twitter was for the uncool, the geeks, the wonks, the wits, the misfits.

Dichotomies like this are becoming trite in my opinion, even more so because this representation of "cool/not cool" doesn't ring true to my experience on either platform. Who/what falls in line with either category is largely subjective to the subcultures on the platform itself, among other things¹.

> Twitter was the closest we’ve come to bottling oral culture in written form.

This is nice.

1. With the exception of Tumblr, in my experience at least, Tumblr seemed (entertainingly) hostile to the kind of people who probably went on to launch glowing Instagram personas.

This is nuts. I can understand the appeal of “legacy” articles (ones that spring up from time to time across months/years) being valuable as individual records. But there should be a way for articles/threads like this one that cover current events and are reposted from multiple sources multiple times throughout the initial news cycle to be consolidated; sources, comments, etc somehow rolled onto a single page. Or something.

Cc: dan(g)

> It's like saying rape victims are too close to rape and therefore their opinions on rape legislation are skewed.

No...no.