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Jan 27 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
"Some of us are not the bad ones. And unless you can say specifically which ones are, you should shut up."

Why does literally everybody inside some harmful shit think this argument holds weight?
The whole point is that we don't know where the bad stuff is. If you're inside of it WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING TELL US?!

"I mean yeah some shit's going down but I'm pretty sure it's not my part". - literally every person who has ever been part of a harm machine
"Every 10th time you stick your hand in this bag, you're gonna lose a finger. But unless you stick your hand in here, you can't really criticize."

Bro, what the fuck are you talking about?!
"I stuck my hand in 9 times and nothing even happened. It's your turn. Don't knock it til you try it."
web3 person: hey you're not part of the community so you probably don't know what you're talking about

Me: Okay fine, so you're in the community. Will you just tell us where the harm is and who is doing it?
Let's make it plain. To my friends who consider themselves part of the web3 community. Before you tell me to shut up again, please provide at least one name of a person or project that you know to be harmful so I can share it here. Do that and I will forever give you a pass.
If you can't do that, then please explain why being inside of the community makes any difference in preventing harm.

If you *won't* do that for some reason, then I still love you but there's not much for us to talk about on this topic.
A lot of y'all seem to think my little joke tweets are funny but unrealistic. Like I said. Stick your hand in the bag and lose a finger. And then they tell you to do it again.
Remember folks, don’t get sour on crypto just because you… *checks notes*… got scammed repeatedly. I don’t know why you’d let that turn you off the whole thing.
This thing has billions of dollars flowing through it. And the answer to how do I get my money back is “Go see my mans in the alley. He’ll get you right no problem. Trust me.”

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Jan 29
I’m disappointed but I’m not judging this person. We all need to understand that the majority of jobs still work this way. And the majority of people are still conditioned to think this way. We are still teaching each other that we can all do better and we can all have better.
I seem to be the only one who has sympathy for this person. Y’all love to tell me I’m the mean one. Y’all say you’re mad at employers, but you’re actually not. You will destroy a Worker way faster than you’ll actually come for Owners. It’s wild.
I can’t start the fight I wanna start today. But let me say this. Having sympathy for someone doesn’t mean they didn’t do anything wrong. Being thoughtful about how you wanna approach telling someone they did something wrong. That’s on you. It has nothing to do with them.
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Jan 28
I think the thing that bothers me about the free speech debate is how simplistic it is. The idea that we aren't allowed to examine anything about the context in which things exist.
The ACLU is a body that tries to protect speech through legal action. There is a reason the ACLU isn't trying to help people get their Twitter accounts back. Because it's not the same fucking thing.
The ACLU also tries to actually stop bigoted discrimination. Because they know that's also bad. But then you talk to people like @siberianmi and he's like "the ACLU did a thing one time which means we can't censor anything ever even if it means people are getting hurt".
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Jan 28
They're not on Twitter because you're not posting them on Twitter. They should be on Twitter. We should know about them from people who are actually trying to protect others from harm. But that's my point. It's not fucking happening.
"It's completely transparent and public".

Then where the fuck is it? Why can't I see it? Why would a thing that is supposed to be so valuable be so good at hiding?
I'm sitting on one of the biggest info distribution machines ever created. And you're telling me it's not on here. It's sucking up billions of dollars from people and it's not on here. And you think that's good? You think that soothes concerns and fills people with trust?
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Jan 27
Okay. Here's the thing that bothers me about the calendly issue. I don't feel strongly about it either way. But it feels so clear to me that the discourse around it is mostly driven by the fact that the guy who delivered the message sounds like a tool.
Like it feels very reactionary. This guy becomes the representative for everybody who maybe isn't so thrilled about the rise of calendly culture. And people are like "fuck this guy. If it means pissing this guy off then inject calendly directly into my veins!"
Then some people are like "I mean I wouldn't say it like that guy did, but I sort of don't like calendly either".

"What?! You must be exactly the same kind of tool that this guy is."

It has been disheartening to watch tbh.
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Jan 26
Welp.
Here's what's fascinating about being here in the moment and watching crypto develop. We have greater transparency into how these online systems are being built. If we're paying attention, we can learn a lot about the actual mechanisms of how systemic harm happens.
Remember we talked about idealists and sociopaths working together?
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Jan 26
No offense, but I'm probably on the other end of the spectrum on this. What I have learned about online discourse is that people show you who they are pretty early on. But the faux politeness people can waste a lot of your time.
But more so, I roundly reject the idea that we should be *more* concerned with being polite than with the harm being done. I believe that is one of the *primary* ways that we have created a society where harm cannot be effectively addressed.
We constrain ourselves from the outset. So the people doing the harm are afforded the benefit of the doubt. They learn to take advantage of these constraints we place on ourselves. While they are not bound by any such handicap.
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