alt Hacker NewsWho Killed Paulina Borsook's Career?
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Apparently, there's also an illustrated childrens' book by another author Sandra Peterson based on cyberselfish by Paulina [1]
[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HF8QPPLS
edit: update to mention the new book's author.
This is a pretty interesting article. Firefox shows the first paragraph for a second and then blanks it, but lynx -dump manages to get the text. There's an audio too but I ignored that.
Firefox reader mode displays the full article perfectly.
God I hate this writing style. And the title. The reality is probably more bland.
In the 80s and 90s, tech was magic. Lots of computer magazines, cyberpunk novels. Tech fact and fiction sold in huge quantities. Mainstream tech publications depended on tech ad dollars, so editors preferred tech sycophants. There were doom-scarers but it was mostly a utopian thing. It's what got me into tech as a kid.
After the dot-com bubble burst, this imploded. Investment in tech dropped across the board, including advertising tech publications. I'd love to get a count of cyber/tech fiction novels published through the 80s,90s and early dot-com burst.
> Ok, but first I have to tell you about Dick Pick. Literally his name. Richard A. Pick. Went by Dick.
How Americans keep straight face in such situations?
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There was about a paragraph and then nothing but ads. Don't bother clicking.
The story itself, or the lady it was about, was interesting, but for fucks sake
> In a way, the happy turn of events in the past few months had left her even more discombobulated.
> The work was impenetrably abstruse.
> … but neither did they go in for gooey panegyrics to the likes of Newt Gingrich…
When did it become a thing amongst American journalists that knowing how to use thesaurus on your word processor makes you both a really amazing writer as well as super-duper cool smart person?! For fucks sake, Orwell and Hemingway wrote the way 11-year-old could understand every word, they were still masterful in the depth of their stories. I hate this jargony thesaurus-wanking in today’s journalism and I don’t think I am only one.
Please stop.