He’s not saying this because he has influence with Microsoft directly. He’s doing it because he’s Brian Eno and he will be heard, and because of the respect he’s earned amongst his peers, he will be heard by people with even louder voices. So Microsoft and other companies and consumers will hear. Hopefully with enough acts like this, companies are shamed enough that it affects their bottom lines enough that they stop supporting genocide.
I have a lifetime nebula. I’m probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it’s such a good service that I don’t mind.
I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.
This is a big hit to gaming. Polygon was a reliable source and employed a lot of knowledgeable and passionate writers and creators. It had its critics because it didn’t cater to gamergate, but for most of us that was a good thing.
Valnet has blown up many sites before to make unreliable content farms. They practically invented the business.
I hope the laid off writers at Polygon are able to make something like 404media.
I’m confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That’s where the blame lies.
It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.
I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic “no” vote here. But I’m not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.
I am not really in the know about Shapiro’s position on the ongoing genocide. Previously, I thought the campaign against him smelled off.
I’d like to take this article at face value, but given the publication’s track record of indirectly supporting genocide through false equivalence and whataboutism, I can’t. Unfortunately for Josh Shapiro such a defense will inevitably have the opposite effect, though I doubt he asked the Atlantic to run this piece.
I switched back to VLC a while ago after trying others. Not fancy, but it tends to just work.
They did after the great depression aside from a couple 2 year periods. Then Gingrich took out a Contract on America.
The KGB was very much around in 1987 when Trump visited Moscow and began pushing Russian interests in America and generally criticizing US alliances.
Imagine if they privatize the postal service and repeal section 230. We’ll be hard pressed to organize and communicate.
Right? Imagine being the white man chosen to go to the moon based on skin color and gender, knowing that more qualified astronauts had been passed up and that you are effectively propaganda. That would not be a great moment.
There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.
To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I’m sure you don’t intend this.
Headlines, titles, thumbs don’t really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I’d rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.
An important part of media literacy is understanding sources and context. This YouTube creator is anything but clickbait on the topic of orbital mechanics.
Yeah for sure. And regardless, I know some great security engineers who are ADHD.
Yup. Courting the Cheneys, supremely unpopular politicians, likely lost more votes than it gained.
It’s yet another systemic issue, reflective of wider systemic issues. It’s not helpful to place the blame or demands on individuals.
In 10 it was possible to turn it all off and leave it off. In 11 it’s almost impossible to do so.
This seems unfairly dismissive of someone who’s proved themselves time and again. The article might not be about what you wish it was about but it’s insightful about the topic it covers.
Doctorow has been on a roll recently. Not that he ever really stops
In that case, I suggest you stop throwing dirt at GN.
It’s like Infinite Jest, just an alternate timeline.