Kara Swisher's tech columns have moved beyond ridiculous into some sublime pure land of drivel.pic.twitter.com/5Q5hGOim0U
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Perversely, the New York Times's high stature and extreme professional vanity make it impossible for them to just say "we hired someone who is incompetent." But select any ten columns from this list at random, and that conclusion is clear.https://www.nytimes.com/column/kara-swisher …
I'm not on jihad against Swisher because of personal animus, or because there are not other terrible writers with tenure at the NYT, but because we so badly need a writer in this space who can address the social impacts of technology in a cogent way, to a mass readership
Anyway, who's a writer people would like to see with a weekly tech-and-society column in the NYT?
How far apart are those pull quotes? Is the jist of the article is the world fucked, but at least we get a shiny credit card? That is some dystopian shit.
There's paragraphs in between on needing to design safety into our systems from the get-go, which gives her a way to segue to the credit card
Was she good before? That 2007 panel she moderated with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs was one of the most humiliating performances I've ever seen. For her sake, I hope she had a drug or alcohol problem at the time.
Do you have any recommendations for people who's work we should be following?
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