[jauntywundrkind]

I wish we had better ways to build these cases. To collect the various anecdotes and whinges, to aggregate them them together. I want evidence, bona-fides, or a list of comments I've liked with people doing criticism on someone, to be able to drop down when bad people and bad outlets show up again in the feed.

Noah Smith definitely deserves this warning. All sorts of stories of ridiculous overconfidence & oversimplification in the the dumbest of reasonings, dating back for many many many years.

I'd assumed growing up others would also tend towards the ultra online, that the smart ones were pioneering a lifestyle of intelligence and consideration, of hunting for context to understand the tidbits er run across, to consider widely. I'd assumed networking would spawn & spread to help show the back stories of those who we read.

But today, the lack of social defense against bad and or incomeptent seems so so so resounding in the world.