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.
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?
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Like I'm in invasion of the body snatchers.
I gotta step away from the crypto conversation. I can't handle this. I won't be talking about it anymore for a while.
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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.
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".
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."
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?
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.