is there something to know about him aside from being a writer at Wired? is he a guest author with additional clout? are people really reading Wired and influenced by it?
its surprising how the data brokers haven't gotten me stuck in this algorithm based echo chamber. Its like his works must get shared around FAANG company chats, or a mailing list that all YC applicants get subscribed to out of prerequisite.
>is there something to know about him aside from being a writer at Wired?
does it seem sensible to go around asking crowds why you should care about trends?
if you get it, fine; join up.
if you don't get it, fine; you're not going to conform to that one, brag about it to your friends.
the third option, your option, of trying to convince the crowd that the trend is stupid/ridiculous/worthless/whatever is ineffective and perceived as kind of an anti-social contrarian thing to do by a lot of people.
for what it's worth , I hate the phrase too. I think it takes impact away from the actual vulgar word, and it reduces the impact of all vulgarity all together by foisting the word into the common language lexicon, but it's a trend and chances are good that it'll be gone by tomorrow.
Cory Doctorow is a pretty decent fiction writer, he's worked with wired, he's worked with the FSF/GNU/EFF in the past, has spoken publicly about a lot of perceived 'issues' that are somehow related to 'tech' as a sector and has been extraordinarily visible to the tech crowds within the United States and likely the rest of the English speaking world.
I mean I want to get it, I’m open to another perspective.
When my gut instinct says “people 30 years older than me acting like children specifically because they found someone to validate their yelling at clouds” and thats…. exactly what it is? and the only reason I see that word only here?
I feel like thats out of character for hackernews, unsubstantive except for being relatable to the moderation here as well
Such a strange question, I do not know what you value! He has written good books that cover complication of DRM etc. in a popular way, and is a prolific writer. Has made it easier for me to discuss these things with unintiated.
I was never into Boing Boing but it was really shared a lot back in the day.
I value adults using words that aren't attempts at being edgy while masquerading as a refined lexicon
I would say its a very niche group thats out of touch, but actually maybe Cory is on to something modern, he needed to become relevant to everyone that wasn't still reporting capital loss carryovers from 1999
He’s an author who influenced a wide range of technical people around the dot com era and iirc was an early proponent of the “we work for idiots” point of view.
Not quite the John Brunner of the late 90s but in the same neighborhood.
its surprising how the data brokers haven't gotten me stuck in this algorithm based echo chamber. Its like his works must get shared around FAANG company chats, or a mailing list that all YC applicants get subscribed to out of prerequisite.