Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Culture

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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Hacker News is my safe space (reddit.com)
Hacker News is my safe space
Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016) (new-east-archive.org)
Don't ask me to embarrass myself (basta.substack.com)