well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads

I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation

unrelated but it's very funny to watch these Business Geniuses take years to puzzle out "why did people stop liking us after we made everything worse"

It is impossible to answer this because you’re trying to compare the Steve Jobs of 2011 to some version who would have been subjected to the same 15 years of social media and rich-guy group texts as all of these other people.

I really do not understand how people don't face consequences.

This isn't some esoteric norm she breeched.

Don't be romantically entangled with a source is journalism 001. It's remedial journalism. That she not only did it but never came forward is maddening.

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

still wishing good things for the gay man in a dark new orleans bar 1.5 years ago who asked if i was "in [my] twenties"

what a starfleet captain-ass bookshelf, just gotta add some dickens or something

Bones did it