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Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by labster »

perl4ever wrote: post #32
buboard wrote: post #22

Software enters postmodernism

It's weird to me that "postmodernism" is eternally current. It was invented like 90 years ago! It reminds me of how people have been talking about millennials so long as youth that they're about to start turning 40.

My own theory is that postmodernism is much much older. Even some of the Mannerist art from the late Renaissance has that sort of conceptual dissonance to me.[0]

The four big pillars are romanticism, which is focused on the past; realism is concerned with the present, modernism is focused on the future. And then postmodernism exists as some sort of combination of the three, combining elements of each in surprising ways -- sometimes a synthesis, other times a rejection.

Of course all my university education is in physical science so this is probably stupid and wrong.

[0]: Seriously, look at this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Librarian_(painting)

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by HenryBemis »

cagenut wrote: post #2

In a world of rapidly increasing inequality FOMO actually is the rational response. Most people are missing out.

I perceive FOMO to be a chance to waste time. I miss-out on a billion things per day, I am not reading 10k new articles per day, not playing a million games per day, not eating hundreds of cuisines per day, etc. so I can focus on the 5 articles, and 5 songs, and 3 lunches that I choose to.

If you call that FOMO you are more desperate than you imagine (or probably cannot even imagine) and you will always be chasing something that cannot be caught.

Equality is not achieved by fighting FOMO, but by fighting inequality. Solution (imho) is not to battle 24/7/365, but by picking battles you can win. Yea a government can win far more battles should they want to, and your battle it to be poking them to do so.. but FOMO is irrelevant to the story, just a thing that adds to confusion and, eventually, inaction.

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by dionian »

ALittleLight wrote: post #27
pfraze wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had to look it up. It's another social media play like Gab that uses "free speech" to mean "pro alt right." Every one of their product screenshots is of a pro-Trump story. EDIT: https://parler.com/auth/access

I think what people actually need, and probably would want, is a less free speech alternative. Like, you're banned from being rude, crass, or offensive. In general, I like the idea of free speech, but to my intuition "free speech" seems like philosophers daring to go anywhere their minds will take them regardless of mainstream norms, political correctness, or commonly held beliefs. In practice, "free speech" is just…

And of course the moderators of such a forum would never lean to one side of neutral and define 'hate' in ways that would benefit them politically! Just like how twitter very fairly enforces the rules against liberals just like it does conservatives! /s

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by perl4ever »

labster wrote: post #41
perl4ever wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird to me that "postmodernism" is eternally current. It was invented like 90 years ago! It reminds me of how people have been talking about millennials so long as youth that they're about to start turning 40.

My own theory is that postmodernism is much much older. Even some of the Mannerist art from the late Renaissance has that sort of conceptual dissonance to me.[0] The four big pillars are romanticism, which is focused on the past; realism is concerned with the present, modernism is focused on the future. And then postmodernism exists as some sort of combination of the three, combining elements of each in surprising wa…

That's fine, but I feel disoriented by the idea that postmodernism was it, that there's nothing after it. Is that all there is?

Then again, "The End of History" was almost 30 years ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_That_All_There_Is%3F

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by anoncareer0212 »

perl4ever wrote: post #33
whymauri wrote: post #3

The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion: https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement >In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” e…

You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.

That's the really cringy part of this, the only people who are talking about this being deep are the people who have been pumping that garbage into my timeline for the last decade

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by geofft »

amingilani wrote: post #18
aripickar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was more of a case of "Donate money to these causes and see what happens". Not fraud

I'd say it's borderline fraud. They've been retweeting app screenshots with that emoji combination on it[0], retweeting people saying someone took their "username on that emoji app"[1], and directly tweeted "we’ll see what we can do about an invite" if people donated and sent receipts. And now they're using this publicity to gain employment and sell merchandise. This team mislead people to "support causes" and is now…

I think this is what we used to call "growth hacking..."

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by Nasrudith »

rjeli wrote: post #34

That article read like GPT2, not even GPT3. The same few points over and over for a dozen paragraphs. Didn’t actually explain why or how anyone donated money to this fake startup/charities

They sound like "Social Text" style bullshit really. Tons of fashionable ideological buzzwords and their own arcane cant for cant's sake, deliberate unpleasability in terms of vast complaints, and having no remotely concrete plans. They shame them for supposed inadequacy of donations and involvement but what would the donations actually be used /towards/ and how would they help the recipients? They already ignore the "boring" answers like scholarships and outreach initatives as not radical enough.

To be frank the actors come across as either insane narcissists or acting in cynical bad faith. They get to feel good about it and/or gain influence but actually helping anybody? They are doing their adversary's work for them while lauding themselves for it!

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by Thorentis »

perl4ever wrote: post #33
whymauri wrote: post #3

The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion: https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement >In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” e…

You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.

Yeah, this was my thought. Silicon Valley as a whole wasn't captivated by this. Just the people that are usually caught up in "exclusive social apps" (whatever that is) making this less of a deal than it's made out to be.

Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist

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Post by dmix »

anoncareer0212 wrote: post #45
perl4ever wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.

That's the really cringy part of this, the only people who are talking about this being deep are the people who have been pumping that garbage into my timeline for the last decade

This has San Francisco written all over it.
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