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by skippyboxedhero 1315 days ago
Sounds awful. I don't go on Twitter to "learn" from my betters (presumably, the founder includes himself in that category).

If you look at FTX, you have these supposed "journalists" quoting from "Autism Capital" on Twitter...that is where their sources are. I am guessing "Autism Capital" is some random guy, in his mom's bedroom, making no money from this...and there are journalists taking down $80k/year just ripping stories from that.

The question this should raise is: why do we need the journalists? These people are pointless, they don't have interesting opinions, they are just information tollgates, Twitter removes that friction totally (equally, I worked in finance, I started working just before the Twitter age and assumed that everyone else was very diligent/knowledgeable/doing lots of good research...and then all these people hopped onto Twitter, start outputting more information, and you realise they are just total idiots...which I also realised after working in the industry, Twitter exposes the man behind the curtain).

Give me the anonymous cesspit. If it makes you mad and upset, don't go on there, that is on you. The doctor can't be blamed for the needle being sharp.
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cwkoss 1315 days ago
The psuedojournalists you are referring to are worse than simple plagiarizers: they share content they lack the capacity to analyze, but still add their own spin.

I think they have played a significant role in enabling many of the dumbest outcomes of the last decade.

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skippyboxedhero 1315 days ago
They are also overwhelmingly people who get triggered by random people they don't know online, and are pushing for this narrowing of the information space so that their safety/income is maintained.

You are right, the spin is as bad as the copying. Always an agenda, that agenda is never made explicit, every event, same underlying cause. It often seems we have the worst possible people in that role of relaying information (and I do actually feel more comfortable with someone who doesn't pretend to be either objective or, shock, even particularly serious).

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