trying & failing to wrap my mind around the idea of the same tech people who complain about "witch hunts" enthusiastically supporting a thread singling out individual journalists for comments they made on twitter
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the thing where vcs in control of millions of dollars bitch endlessly to their 150k twitter followers about how they're victimized by the tech press is so stupid it's insane
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It’s almost as if people who have a platform and their main directive is to write true words... Are held to a high standard and criticized when their words are wildly untrue Crazy how that works
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i think it's absolutely correct to criticize reporters when they incorrectly report facts but if i were gonna take that platform, i wouldn't post equally wildly untrue things like "reporter called everyone who advocated for prep a racist" when the screenshot literally says "he"pic.twitter.com/Rgyu5FMbLa
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People worth less than $1e7 don’t really feel pain
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The myth of the devil’s bargain is most likely rooted in the common trade of your sense of humor(needed for not taking yourself so seriously) for a really large and powerful ego.
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