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We can do this with every angle of kyriarchical bullshit, but it boils down to: Critiquing oppression is not the reason there is oppression.

What made this place what it was for that stretch of time is dead — or at least in the throes — but there's a big internet out there. More fragmented, less accelerated, but still filled with people who make it worthwhile. Happy 2024, friends. You're amazing.

If I haven't connected with you on one of those other places yet, I totally want to. My social links are listed on my site, and if you want to drop me a line the info's there too.

Seems like as good a time as any to wrap things up here — in my copious spare time over the past year or so I've been determined to make my content self-hosted (or at least self-archived).

@bryanfcasey “Millennials are destroying b2b saas” is definitely the best version of the meme

The official smoke signal of being ready for your mid-life crisis is when your cohort is responsible for buying 50% of all B2B SaaS.

@simcha1972 @Blackamazon I don’t know what happens in a man’s heart but his history of low level churchy project fundraisers that “succeed” then quietly vanish only to be replaced by the next Important Project That Needs Support speaks to a long pattern of “mild grift evolving into ambitious grift”

@Blackamazon Do you think he ever had any desire to do good at all or if it was all about enriching himself/delusions of grandeur from the beginning?

There’s two(ish) ways to manage content in big companies. You either have a central content org that powers every channel. Or every channel has content as part of it. This is a hard problem. Here’s how to think about it…

@bryanfcasey to be fair, it's really hard to be good

The reason why companies invest so much in digital ads instead of content, social, etc is really just because organic channels require you to be good enough to earn traffic. Most companies aren’t. Paid you just need a budget and you’ll get at least something.

@caitlinmoriah Argument by taxonomy — describe a meta-category that includes a ludicrously wide range of potential things, from the mundane to the horrific ("discussions about the nature of nazism", say). Then ask why someone objects to the metacategory rather than acknowledging any specifics.

trying to imagine being presented with pages of reasons why the abstracts are devoid of anthropological contributions to the point where it would be unethical to allow them to be presented as though they did, and coming back with this, and i am imploding at the shame of it

@andrewfbradley @caitlinmoriah Heterodoxology is universal

@caitlinmoriah I'm sure their field or whatever profession has zero people working in it and is completely immune to sociological trends and influences 👍

this is where the sokal squared con has brought us. those losers lied to some self-important enlightened centrist magazines, who passed the lies on to mainstream journalists, and now incurious plantar warts like diane think they know something about the social sciences

@ergo_praxis This is a point I’ve tried to make over and over after living through and then spending many years deconstructing and contemplating the nature of Christian Purity Culture; it is not a return to some lost dignity but a rejection of the idea that one’s self is one’s own.

When conservatives say things like "people should realize that sexual ethics are not all about consent" you should not kid yourself that their point is other than that consent doesn't matter at all, and ideal sexual relations revolve around the heterosexual subordination of women

@caitlinmoriah So many brains

@eaton there’s a lot of brains out there thinking a lot of thoughts!! it’s worth it to go check on it!!

this tweet is a really good example of a rule i like to follow: if u find urself thinking “nobody knows” or “nobody is talking about this” then u have likely missed something VERY BIG

@ReinH Yeah, UNDERSTANDING what is MVP, and knowing when you've hit MVP (and thus can start getting it into other peoples' hands)… those are very very different than *making a plan that only has enough margin for an MVP*

There's a big problem with minimum viable things in product management, which is that they have no margin for maneuver. If something is already the minimum, you can't cut anything else.

@SwiftOnSecurity I’ve found it’s a really solid rubber duck for task breakdown. Don’t trust full on generative AI for much beyond that; knowing how it works under the hood makes it feel like a slot machine that comes up cherries 40% of the time; amazing but also, how the hell can i *rely* on it?

I'd really rather hear from practitioners who utilized AI in their daily tasks, instead of booster dipshits who've never done a day's work in their entire life and AI is only the next excuse.