Harvard is really intent on it’s own self-destruction for like the past 20 years now.

Completely captured by techno facist bozos, and well that’s most of the student body there now too, so.

Feels like I got out before the ship went down when I graduated in 2005, but damn those icebergs were obvious back then.

FYI this article is about the business school, not Harvard College.

so being a dick about mcdonalds and having no friends, is better than having friends and not being a dick about mcdonalds?

and we wonder why gen z is so lonely… maybe because they’d rather be alone with sticks up their ass than remove the stick, eat the mc, and just have fun and make friends with people.

yeah, but fedi has lots of baked in issues, especially a virulent userbase that is glad to use bots and other tools to turn fedi not into a liberal space but an illiberal space full of extremist and exclusionary politics. they are bringing over their social media echo chamber stuff and just try to re-create it here rather than on commercial platforms where they were kicked out of or left due to censoring of their extremism.

the issue is a large section of the userbase here isn’t like 2000s tech libertarians, that founded most of the internet and the 'net culture we are nostalgic for… a lot of that mentality is essentially extinct or viewed as toxic now. recall that reddit never had a block feature until 2016… 11 years after it started and only when Donald Trump was already in office.

hell most of the devs who are building the fedi are different flavors of political extremists themselves… and there are already many scandals/debates over how many fedi projects have baked in controls or default settings to censor and block things.

more than the internet, the world itself and it’s viewpoints are fundamentally different from where they were 20-30 years ago. we had much more of a monoculture and a narrower overton window back then. the type of stuff that goes on cable news programs these days would have been un-airable 20 years ago.

even in using reddit from 2010-2015, there was a massive tonal shift as the site grew, and it became massively more miserable as the politics flooded the site and every other subreddit became people fighting over R vs D.

yeah, but you get socially isolated if you don’t consume it.

just like 30 years ago if you turned up your nose at mcdonalds everyone thought you were an asshole, because it was considered great thing and only weirdos would not eat there.

further all of this bleeds over into your real everyday life.

Yeah, well it’s full of malicious actors now, an they generally out influence and overwhelm the ordinary user.

The internet was nice when it was a non-profit space for nerds, but now it’s the main way to peddle money and influence in the world so it’s nasty and corrupt.

the ideas of the early net were merely ideals and were never going to last once money got involved. very few ideals ever last once money and power become the currency.

management will never take accountability for it’s own decisions.

that’s how you become an excellent manager who climbs the ladder.

if you take accountability you get fired.

also why you should have local and remote backups both.

Yeah, that’s the point though, the schools/training was massively underenrolled.

if the failure rate is 50%, you need twice as many candidates to fill the jobs. more so if it’s higher.

we also desperately need more medical staff, but nobody is scrambling to hire young men for nursing and other non-doctor medical roles. they are still predominantly marketed for women

like 3/4s of the USA population plays video games these days.

but we assume here it’s ‘young men who play CoD/madden religiously’. I doubt many of these hires were 40+, or women.

because bluesky wants to be a walled garden. they still operate under the same metrics as every other social media platform because their value comes from keeping you on the platform as much and as long as possible and tracking everything you do on it. they can’t do that if you aren’t logged in and views from external users aren’t as valuable as logged in users.

mastodon doesn’t care about any of that. it works off the principles of the open internet.

without a plan there is nothing to vote for. why would anyone vote for the status quo that the left/liberals so viciously defend?

Amen.

liberal/left can’t seen to understand why they keep losing… but then makes no legit effort to like have a actionable plan for any of their political goals.

And if you suggest such actions/plan/pragmatic thinking, you’re basically voted off the liberal ‘happy think only’ island.

I’ve been left-wing I feel like for 25 years, but the entire time I left the politics was moving away from me. As much as the right parodies the left as being elitist and out of touch and delusional… it’s like the left now actively embraces that vision of themselves and actively pursues it.

it’s twitter. always has been, always will be.

it was chaotic and it was awesome.

randomness of the early internet was a gift.

bluesky sucks and has limited reach.

twitter is far more integrated and popular.

people want to reach people, they have to use the broadest platforms.

a fancy monitor that makes like 1/3 of the people who view it throw up.

that’s also how really successful human beings work. they bullshit and lie and appear confident, and people believe them and ignore the people who don’t do that, because they don’t appear as confident.

also why people basically fall in love with AI, because it spouts nothing but bullshit at them and they eat it up like candy because being fed back bullshit is a dopamine hit.

interacting with real people doesn’t supply endless dopamine and they might not tell you what you want to hear.

it’s a gloried spell checker, basically.

and yeah, it’s a really good spell checker.

it’s more fun to flip out over random harmless bullshit than stuff that actually matters though.

no, it’s the job of their parents.

yeah, kids are stupid shits and think everything is suffering, that’s why you discipline them.