Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend
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You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot

Beehaw can't be interacted with through lemmy.world so I thought id crosspost it here for all to see

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1069835

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount of catharsis just from reading.

  • achooie@lemmy.ml
    161·
    1 year ago

    Man, I agree with the point, but is anyone else completely turned off by this kind of writing style?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I didn’t make it more than a couple paragraphs. Please stop with the rage bait and just present the details clearly.

      I’m not emotionally invested in either Zuckerberg or Musk, but I am interested in their companies to some extent. So give me details about their companies and some analysis on what you think that means. Tone down the language and increase the citations.

    • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      I dunno. Their message aside, the writing style was really easy to keep reading, but went on for far too long I think. There were some fun bits in how they describe things.

  • Valmond@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    Someone believing the two rich guys would eventually fight (in a cage no less) should stop being so much on the internet and go outside a bit.

  • On@kbin.social
    42·
    1 year ago

    “A person you never met is not your friend.”

    No shit sherlock.