Help me you're my only hope https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzschean - eviltoast
  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    I missed that(or have forgotten it already, a think which happens a lot with me re Yglesias. I have him mentally tagged as vague shithead, but never can recall why (and am aware this could be wrong)), tried a google search and couldn’t find anything, what is the story?

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      3 months ago

      David told the story in a recent Tech Won’t Save Us episode, basically Matty boy came to BlueSky, everyone started laughing at him for his bad takes (as well they should), and Matty cried for a block function so long and intensely that they gave it to him so he’d shut the fuck up.

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        3 months ago

        no, he complained and they scrambled to implement it for the Important Journalist

        who essayied to post a few more times and was pilloried again

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          3 months ago

          I guess my brain tweaked the story into something a little bit less bleak in self-defense.