Ancestors

Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-03 at 00:51

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3436005

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Written by corbin@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 08:56

Somebody pointed out that HN’s management is partially to blame for the situation in general, on HN. Copying their comment here because it’s the sort of thing Dan might blank:

but I don’t want to get hellbanned by dang.

Who gives a fuck about HN. Consider the notion that dang is, in fact, partially to blame for this entire fiasco. He runs an easy-to-propagandize platform due how much control of information is exerted by upvotes/downvotes and unchecked flagging. It’s caused a very noticeable shift over the past decade among tech/SV/hacker voices – the dogmatic following of anything that Musk or Thiel shit out or say, this community laps it up without hesitation. Users on HN learn what sentiment on a given topic is rewarded and repeat it in exchange for upvotes.

I look forward to all of it burning down so we can, collectively, learn our lessons and realize that building platforms where discourse itself is gamified (hn, twitter, facebook, and reddit) is exactly what led us down this path today.

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 09:39

d’ya…d’ya think they’ll make it all the way along the path, to the realization?

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Written by swlabr@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 14:55

no

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 15:11

The ones who walk towards Omelas.

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Toot

Written by o7___o7@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 15:20

"

Why Don’t We Just

Kill the Kid In

the Omelas Hole

by Isabel J. Kim"

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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Descendants

Written by bitofhope@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 21:24

Finally it turns out torturing the kid was unnecessary and spreading out the suffering would have worked fine. All Omelas had to do was raise their income tax a little bit.

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