Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Culture

Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden? (theatlantic.com)
On a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about our fantasy baseball league, which was nice because I felt connected to them for a second. Then I switched apps and became enraged by a stupid opinion I saw on X, which I shouldn’t be using anymore due to its advanced toxicity and mind-numbing inanity.

Social Media, Technology, Opinion, Online Culture

55 points by fortran77 6 days ago | 62 comments

The Tranhumanist Cult Test (ewanmorrison.substack.com)
In trying to have a few conversations about transhumanism, over the last few months, I’ve found myself attacked online by people who see themselves as its defenders. I’ve been mobbed, trolled, name-called, and several tech-protectors even suggested that I should kill myself. No big deal, but this struck me as more intense than everyday trolling on X, and much more like cult behaviour.

Transhumanism, Online Culture, Cult Behavior

39 points by thinkingemote 60 days ago | 117 comments

The Internet of Beefs (2020) (ribbonfarm.com)
Online public spaces are now being slowly taken over by beef-only thinkers, as the global culture wars evolve into a stable, endemic, background societal condition of continuous conflict.

Online Culture, Social Media, Conflict, Polarization

48 points by throw0101b 73 days ago | 9 comments

We've lost our respect for complexity (wilsoniumite.com)
I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”.

Complexity, Video Essays, Online Culture

105 points by Wilsoniumite 122 days ago | 62 comments

Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" (clereviewofbooks.com)
I texted a friend about an upcoming collection of Amazon reviews by the writer Kevin Killian. He texted back that he thinks a lot about all the great writing that has disappeared over the years—from early Usenet, billboards, MySpace, and weblogs—into the ether.

Literature, Book Reviews, Online Culture

18 points by pseudolus 126 days ago | 3 comments

The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago (elpais.com)
In the visuals of María Escarmiento’s concerts, as in those of many other figures of the urban scene, iPods, Blackberry phones and screenshots of Fotolog, Messenger or Tuenti appear often.

Nostalgia, Online Culture, Social Media, Technology, History

172 points by geox 131 days ago | 221 comments

Hacker News is my safe space (reddit.com)
Hacker News is my safe space

Social Media, Community, Online Culture

9 points by rickmortythrow 198 days ago | 0 comments

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016) (new-east-archive.org)