“As is true of so many contemporary progressive norms, this prohibition belittles and condescends to the very people it ostensibly honors.”
Зборот инфлуенсер не постоеше тогаш, но Аце Стиков беше токму тоа, човек кој можеше со еден збор да влијае врз симпатиите на милионска публика. Можеше, ама не го правеше тоа.
At the beginnings of the internet, Scottish musician/blogger Momus said that in the future everybody will be famous for 15 people.
Here is Erik Hoel's excellent 2023 remix of that theme
https://open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel/p/walled-gardens-mean-online-writing
“The internet has been from its beginning an all-consuming, collectively-generated information swarm. It changes over time, expunging old corridors or gardens or cities, while raising new playgrounds and towers and stadiums, and it remembers nothing.”
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“…the out-and-out abandonment of the notion that love is the noblest pursuit of human life says a lot about our cult of self-worship. Because once you’ve dropped the romantic ideal, that’s all our culture really has to offer.”
“Managerialism has today conquered the world so thoroughly that to most of us it may seem like the only possible universe, the very water in which we swim.”
Bitcoin maximalists would agree
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“A move towards subjectivity will end up being a move towards mediocrity.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/harvard-president-larry-summers-bari-weiss
Yes, retractions look bad, but academic journals need to take responsibility. Sitting on this information for 20+ years and hoping it blows over is a big reason why the faith in journals is decreasing.
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Stanford dragged its feet, but publishers should have acted sooner. Maybe mainstream media will follow in the footsteps of the Stanford Daily and do more investigative journalism about scientific misconduct. 2/3
The misconduct allegations have been around for 20+ years, but the retractions and resignation of Stanford's president are a direct consequence of the recent investigation of the Stanford Daily 1/3
“I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.”
"A blind person, marooned on a desert island untouched by society, is worse off than a sighted person on the same desert island. Here the problem is clearly caused by the blindness, not by any social response to it."
“Coasters realize that they need to work just slightly harder than the worst individual on their team. Their shirking is likely to go unnoticed and they are unlikely to feel enough emotional connection to the organization to raise alarm when critical mistakes are being made.”
“Force begins requesting modest changes to recruiting to make it “more fair.” Force ends with the heavy-handed application of quotas and even exclusion.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
“Somewhat counterintuitively, firms with diverse founders are often highly meritocratic, as the structure harnesses the founder’s desire to make money and shields them from criticism on diversity issues.”
“Force begins requesting modest changes to recruiting to make it “more fair.” Force ends with the heavy-handed application of quotas and even exclusion.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
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