honestly kind of floored at the prevelence and virulence of incel panic, biggest collective journo meltdown since summer before the election
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this is the future tho, it's going to be like this until this thing is destroyed, the internet is conquering reality
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I don't encounter very many non-"internet people" anymore...
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I still know many but I never seem to meet new ones. Perhaps they are fading out like Shakers, passenger pigeons, and jazz fans
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imo everyone uses the internet, few *inhabit* the internet
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Long ago I was an engineer intern for a state highway department. Everyone drove on their roads but those engineers lived there. Is that what you're getting at or is my understanding being attacked by an antiquated metaphor?
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I'm not sure it's the same thing. Network engineers or web devs are not necessarily "from the internet" in the relevant sense, for example.
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yea I am referring to people whose primary socialization/acculturation experience was on the dregs of the net rather than offline
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for us none of what's emerging into mainstream discourse is at all new or strange, it's mundane, what we grew up on
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what's novel is watching all the people for whom it is totally alien suddenly have to scramble and try to cope with it
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i'm going to hell for this but maybe it's good that journos are driven insane by the internet
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do you think I'm defending democracy
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flawless my mistake
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That would put the responsibility on the end user. That would also imply people need be a certain level of media literate. Neither of which are good ways to retain an audience.
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