the whole tech vs press twitter dynamic is just if you took the fallacy where you think everyone who agrees w you does so for diverse & principled reasons and everyone who disagrees does so monolithically and for extrinsic motivations and turned it into a perpetual motion machine
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the press lacks technical expertise & operates under attention economy incentive structures which leads to flaws in coverage and it's exhausting to watch a bunch of self-described problem solvers who could be trying to fix this spend all their time yelling about haters instead
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idk if this equivalency works for me when tech explicitly advertises itself as able to disrupt and reform flawed institutions for the better, and when tech ppl are going around saying journalism is easy anyone can do it. no journalists are saying social networks are easy
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journalism advertises as able to reform via reporting & critique, which is what they're doing — you can agree w/their angles or not but it's what they said they were gonna do. tech advertises as able to reform via building new things but where are the better new media models
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re: fb i don't think i saw this particular flavor of "anyone could just build fb" take? i think everyone is in agreement on basic things like "social networks only succeed with (maybe monopolistic) network effects" and "every successful startup had luck involved"
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