"Pretty wild that we transitioned to 'broadcast whatever is top of mind with zero friction' and 'any opinion that reflects values not held by the most radical 10% will ruin your career' at the same time." — a friend who wishes to remain anonymous
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Paul Graham Retweeted Mason 🏃♂️ ✂️
I didn't realize this till now, but this message from a friend was derived from something
@webdevMason said:https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1273673202313510914 …Paul Graham added,
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Replying to @paulg
Funny enough — I also stole this (with permission) from a friend who couldn't say it publicly. I guess this is how discourse works now. Seems... healthy
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Replying to @webdevMason
Yes, I just learned myself that we both heard it from the same source. Though it's a bit weird that the present intolerant climate has produced duplicate tweets, in this case it was a net win. Our friend's idea got double the exposure.
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We're going to see more of this as real talk keeps shifting to private channels and gets filtered back into the public sphere via a handful of messengers who can still speak without hurting other people terribly. Bizarre to think mass communication wrought modern whisper networks
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That sounds an awful lot like a reinvention of the gatekeeper/editorial/broadcast system we used to have, right?
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Yeah, and it's a role traditional media could be filling if they weren't simultaneously going haywire. The media is increasingly cut out by their own sources not because those sources have better options, but because they're acting on the same incentives the mob is acting on.
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