How I knew I was officially Old: I stopped being disoriented by the experience of meeting with grown-ass adults who wanted to thank me for the books of mine they'd read in their childhoods, which helped shape their lives.
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The point of this is that there were *lots* of people back then who had the capacity to imagine the kind of gross stuff that Zuckerberg, Musk, and innumerable other scammers, hustlers and creeps got up to on the web. The thing that distinguished these monsters wasn't their genius - it was their callousness. When *we* brainstormed ways to break the internet, we felt scared and were inspired to try to save it.
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@pluralistic They’re sociopaths and much like fecal matter they tend to rise to the top. They have always been around but the casino economy is attracting them in record numbers. https://blog.miljko.org/2026/04/11/the-shameless-style-in-american.html
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