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I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now
Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.
I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now
> (Yes, it is weird that Zuck goes out of his way to compare himself to a violent dictator.) Why can't news sites just report the news? Why do they need to tell me what to think about it?
What bothers me about this is not injecting an opinion (it's TechCrunch) but the superficial and ignorant take. Julius Caesar was not just some "violent dictator" like a Hitler, Stalin, or Putin. He wasn't sending people off to gas chambers, gulags, or out of windows. He was famous for his clemency toward his enemies in the civil war which made him dictator. Even the title of "dictator" was a legal office in ancient…
I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now
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What bothers me about this is not injecting an opinion (it's TechCrunch) but the superficial and ignorant take. Julius Caesar was not just some "violent dictator" like a Hitler, Stalin, or Putin. He wasn't sending people off to gas chambers, gulags, or out of windows. He was famous for his clemency toward his enemies in the civil war which made him dictator. Even the title of "dictator" was a legal office in ancient…
Well... About a million dead and a million enslaved might disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars . He murdered/enslaved for political gain back home, then killed the people who opposed to him back in Rome to stop democracy. I don't want to compare to these other guys because obviously it was a different time/culture and you can't really make such broad sweeping comparisons. I won't judge people for admir…
> Zuckerberg has drawn comparisons between himself and the Roman dictator Julius Caesar Thought it was Caesar Augustus? IIRC Zuckerberg has even claimed that his hairstyle is inspired by him.
I think Zuck's shirt is a good joke on everyone trying to displace Facebook from the market. BlueSky wants to be the next Facebook/Twitter, so IMO by not getting the joke the Bluesky shirt is a self-own.
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You're thinking of a wire service. Associated Press for example is what you want. TechCrunch is a blog and it's completely normal for blogs to be editorialized.
> Top Headlines > Latest News > Newsletters > TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies. [0] Oh, okay. My fault. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch
The Something Awful forums had a $9.95 registration fee. I'm sure markup on those $40 shirts is more than that.
Some game developers also embraced this business model:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745810196/deep-rock-gal...
Personally I would not spend this much on a plastic mug, but it seems there were enough takers to fund continued development.
> Zuckerberg has drawn comparisons between himself and the Roman dictator Julius Caesar Thought it was Caesar Augustus? IIRC Zuckerberg has even claimed that his hairstyle is inspired by him.
yea it's augustus, but Zuck's "Zuck or Nothing" playing off of "Aut Caesar aut nihil" isn't even referring to a particular Caesar, but it's use as the title Emperor , and attributable to Cesare Borgia. I think Zuck's shirt is a good joke on everyone trying to displace Facebook from the market. BlueSky wants to be the next Facebook/Twitter, so IMO by not getting the joke the Bluesky shirt is a self-own.
The point of the shirt seems to be that they don't want to be the next facebook. The article clarifies that. Whether they'll live up to that promise if they grow is another issue.