alt Hacker NewsCan we please stop paying attention to what celebrity developers and HN darlings like simonw have to say?
Listening to influencers is in large part what got us into the (social, political, technofascist) mess we're currently in. At the very least listening to alternative voices has the chance of getting us out. I'm tired of influencers, no matter how benign their message sounds. But I'm especially tired of those who speak positively of this technology and where it's taking us.
No, this viral thing that's barely 2 months old is certainly not the most interesting place on the internet. Get out of your bubble.
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Of course it isn't. Internet comedy was set in stone with Zombocom and Homstar, and we all know the Internet moves very slowly, so "the most interesting place" would have to be something old, like the Space Jam Website from '97 still being up. That bubble is at the very front of a very frothy wave, at the bleeding edge of art and technology. That makes it more interesting than all the other shit on the Internet because we've that shit already. This is what FORUM 3000 dreamed of being!
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You gotta learn to read past the headline.