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delis-thumbs-7e 14 minutes ago [-]
The story itself, or the lady it was about, was interesting, but for fucks sake
> In a way, the happy turn of events in the past few months had left her even more discombobulated.
> The work was impenetrably abstruse.
> … but neither did they go in for gooey panegyrics to the likes of Newt Gingrich…
When did it become a thing amongst American journalists that knowing how to use thesaurus on your word processor makes you both a really amazing writer as well as super-duper cool smart person?! For fucks sake, Orwell and Hemingway wrote the way 11-year-old could understand every word, they were still masterful in the depth of their stories. I hate this jargony thesaurus-wanking in today’s journalism and I don’t think I am only one.
Please stop.
oumua_don17 5 hours ago [-]
Apparently, there's also an illustrated childrens' book by another author Sandra Peterson based on cyberselfish by Paulina [1]
This is a pretty interesting article. Firefox shows the first paragraph for a second and then blanks it, but lynx -dump manages to get the text. There's an audio too but I ignored that.
viceconsole 6 hours ago [-]
Firefox reader mode displays the full article perfectly.
13415 3 hours ago [-]
It shows one paragraph on my machine.
wigster 3 hours ago [-]
me too
raffraffraff 3 hours ago [-]
God I hate this writing style. And the title. The reality is probably more bland.
In the 80s and 90s, tech was magic. Lots of computer magazines, cyberpunk novels. Tech fact and fiction sold in huge quantities. Mainstream tech publications depended on tech ad dollars, so editors preferred tech sycophants. There were doom-scarers but it was mostly a utopian thing. It's what got me into tech as a kid.
After the dot-com bubble burst, this imploded. Investment in tech dropped across the board, including advertising tech publications. I'd love to get a count of cyber/tech fiction novels published through the 80s,90s and early dot-com burst.
Arodex 1 hours ago [-]
>The reality is probably more bland.
Maybe read the article before criticizing. It says the same thing as you.
camillomiller 2 hours ago [-]
You sound like this touched a nerve.
Also, your argument is self defeating.
If tech publications were not so dependent on tech ad money after the bubble burst, then critical writing like Borsook’s should have become more palatable and editors would have had some interest in publishing critical stuff.
I don’t think there was a conspiracy, as much as a “we don’t wanna have to do with her because she’s problematic” consensus. The outcome for her was the same.
The kernel of truth here is that the behaviors we see displayed nowadays by tech bros were always there, it’s just that at the time there was less scrutiny, and telling the underdog-changing-the-world-for-the-good-of-all tech story sold their narrative much better.
They were always after the usual triad: power, money, sex.
self_awareness 5 hours ago [-]
> Ok, but first I have to tell you about Dick Pick. Literally his name. Richard A. Pick. Went by Dick.
How Americans keep straight face in such situations?
PyWoody 17 minutes ago [-]
There used to be a politician named Richard Swett[0]. He went by Dick.
Often they don't and it's kind of the point. You could go by Rich, Richie, Rick, Ricky, Dickie... if you choose to call yourself Dick, you know you're going to cause some amount of snickering and you're doing it on purpose.
Also I remember men called him Richard Feynman but a lot of women called him Dick. That's sending a different message.
stevoski 3 hours ago [-]
I recall sitting in a seminar in Australia, conducted by an American man called Buck Rogers. I had a moment of disbelief when he introduced himself.
I later found out that he had legally changed his name to Buck Rogers to intentionally be noticed.
wolfi1 3 hours ago [-]
I doubt that Gen Z und the millenials would even know Buck Rogers
Tade0 4 hours ago [-]
"Borsook" as it is spoken means "badger" to most Slavic language speakers. Whoever was the immigration officer back then was noting things down by ear.
ben_w 5 hours ago [-]
Not an American, but this reminded me of Randy Baumgardner and Foggy Bottom.
> In a way, the happy turn of events in the past few months had left her even more discombobulated.
> The work was impenetrably abstruse.
> … but neither did they go in for gooey panegyrics to the likes of Newt Gingrich…
When did it become a thing amongst American journalists that knowing how to use thesaurus on your word processor makes you both a really amazing writer as well as super-duper cool smart person?! For fucks sake, Orwell and Hemingway wrote the way 11-year-old could understand every word, they were still masterful in the depth of their stories. I hate this jargony thesaurus-wanking in today’s journalism and I don’t think I am only one.
Please stop.
[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HF8QPPLS
edit: update to mention the new book's author.
In the 80s and 90s, tech was magic. Lots of computer magazines, cyberpunk novels. Tech fact and fiction sold in huge quantities. Mainstream tech publications depended on tech ad dollars, so editors preferred tech sycophants. There were doom-scarers but it was mostly a utopian thing. It's what got me into tech as a kid.
After the dot-com bubble burst, this imploded. Investment in tech dropped across the board, including advertising tech publications. I'd love to get a count of cyber/tech fiction novels published through the 80s,90s and early dot-com burst.
Maybe read the article before criticizing. It says the same thing as you.
I don’t think there was a conspiracy, as much as a “we don’t wanna have to do with her because she’s problematic” consensus. The outcome for her was the same.
The kernel of truth here is that the behaviors we see displayed nowadays by tech bros were always there, it’s just that at the time there was less scrutiny, and telling the underdog-changing-the-world-for-the-good-of-all tech story sold their narrative much better.
They were always after the usual triad: power, money, sex.
How Americans keep straight face in such situations?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Swett
Also I remember men called him Richard Feynman but a lot of women called him Dick. That's sending a different message.
I later found out that he had legally changed his name to Buck Rogers to intentionally be noticed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Baumgardner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggy_Bottom
“…a legislative intern, accused Baumgardner of sexual harassment in which he slapped her butt…”
You can’t make this stuff up.