Fun Fact: I was going to write about the deeply-troubling ethos of Ready Player One and its ugly connection to silicon valley / geek culture / tech bro thinking, but thank god someone much smarter did it much better. https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/986951429175656448 …
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I'm not being flip here. I think these attitudes might be the most ridiculously harmful bullshit precisely because they seem innocuous, but they're incredibly insidious. Again, people like Laura went through the worst of Gamergate and it was horrific.
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But people shrugged it off and didn't see exactly the kinds of problems that these philosophies create. They're a really big fucking deal. And we don't see it, cause often, we're not on the receiving end of the fallout.
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