Jack Baty

This might become a microblog about photography, blogging, emacs, analog tools, tech, etc. We'll see.

Tag: social

We're still piling on, I guess.

Crowd: "That guy is pretty cool and is doing good work for the community. We should support him!"

Guy: Continues to do the exact same work, but decides it might actually be better for him to be posting on X.

Crowd: "That guy is a loser facist-supporting asshole with no moral compass or sense of decency. Boycott him!"

Personally, I hate X and Musk and the whole lot of them. I believe that using X is wrong, but I'm beginning to hate the lazy righteous finger pointing from the "good guys" just as much. How dare anyone only get a C on the purity test. What is this, 2020? I'm on vacation this weekend and seeing this shit happen 2 or 3 times in as many days is so disheartening.

Social

Joan Westenberg on Neo-Etiquette Basics

Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human

We need a baseline that acknowledges a simple moral fact: that other people are actually real people. They have inner lives you can’t and don’t get to see; they have sentience, no matter how inconvenient that might be. You don’t get to treat them as disposable, you don’t get to process them into content, and you don’t get to claim their time, publish their flaws, or distribute their worst moments at will.

We might be better off we replaced the bible's ten commandments with Westenberg's rules. Or maybe just stop acting like you're the only important person there is.

Social, Culture