History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!
History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
“I’ve always hated the phrase ‘speak truth to power,’ because it assumes all power is bad. It should really be ‘speak truth to power when the power is false or damaging—or even just plain bizarre,’” Swisher writes.
lmao
16What, so if there's power that's honest, harmless and sensible you're supposed to... not speak truth to it?
9you're supposed to accept your rightful place in the hierarchy and shut your goddamn mouth. stop bothering these lovely people they have empires to run
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fuck almighty, it’s like the Kara Swisher manifesto in one compact quote
8“I’ve always hated the phrase …. since that kid told me I’m actually the problem! The nerve!”
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archive link since the baffler was so fond of telling me I had only 1 free article left, meaning refreshing the tab would most likely lock me out of reading the page
10that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can't do shit when they always die.
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Writers are people who can do nothing else.
That said lots of people write books. But writers are frequently people who have failed at pretty much everything else as a human.
-10hey sam, they're letting you post in prison?
13What a stupid thing to say. Great job not contributing to the discussion at all.
9Lots of writers wish they didn’t have to do anything else lol what are you even talking about
9And yet you write that here. Checkmate letterhater! Boom! Shapirod!
8Elon, that you?
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