#SiliconValley #writers #contrarians #GiftArticle
'Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.'
#Contrarians
New York Times: The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley. This link goes to a gift article. “Paulina Borsook’s ‘Cyberselfish,’ which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/new-york-times-the-writer-who-dared-criticize-silicon-valley/
Reuters: ‘Big Short’ investor Burry targets AI boom with new blog after hedge fund closure. “‘The Big Short’ investor Michael Burry, a vocal skeptic of the current AI boom, took aim at Nvidia as he launched a paid Substack newsletter focused on financial markets, days after shutting down his hedge fund.”
Ars Technica: Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.. “During the times my connection cooperated, Zitron and I covered OpenAI’s financial issues, lofty infrastructure promises, and why the AI hype machine keeps rolling despite some arguably shaky economics underneath. Lee’s probing questions about per-user costs revealed a potential flaw in AI subscription […]
Ars Technica: Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.. “As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments, the top question on many people’s minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and if so, when will it pop? To help us potentially answer that question, I’ll be hosting a […]
Someone tell all the #contrarians smugly gloating about #TikTok being #banned that they're already on the #fediverse and they're not going to be getting extra good-boy points.
#ServusTV wusste also davor ganz genau was da kommt. Aber ja, das Ziel von Servus ist es ja nicht nach bestem Wissen & Gewissen zu informieren ... sondern alle Seiten – egal wie abwegig – zu Wort kommen zu lassen. #FalseBalance #Contrarians
Good episode on Decoding the Gurus on #covid #contrarians.
A very good reading on the contrarian scene; how much are they making money in the process of ranting on ”big pharma”?
Turns out a lot of them made thenselves millionaires. In fact Joe Rogan made hundreds of millions by selling the supplement company #onnit to guess who? Big Pharma.
It’s so cathartic to simply BLOCK static. Some people like to argue, because it gives them something to do. It doesn’t occur to them that I don’t give a damn about their approval. Best of all, I needn’t devote any time to explaining that. Immediate quiet, calm, and convenience.
#BLOCK #mute #contrarians #trolls #argument
Does anybody know any #outlets or #editors interested in how merchants of #doubt sow derail public conversation on #scientific topics?
Talking more broadly about communication tactics from #antivaxxers to 9/11 #truthers, from #climate #contrarians to AIDS #deniers, every parallel universe comes with its little niche #rituals, #idiosyncratic #fallacies, and historical #trajectory. What they share is their #sabotage of public scientific #discourse.
Feel free to suggest somebody or DM me 😅
𝗢𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.
It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a #crowd. That is why we need #contrarians.
«Since they have cut off their ties with their #tribe, nothing prevents them from seeing things as they are.»
#society #diversity #nonconformism
https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded via #aeonmag
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What's the worst rated movie on IMDB that you still (secretly) love?
Prof. Reinemann (LMU) äußerte sich diesbezüglich mal im Kontext des umstrittenen Kollegen #Meyen wie folgt: „Wenn ich nicht bereit bin, Evidenz zu akzeptieren, wenn ich keine Belege für meine Behauptungen anbringen kann, dann ist das das Ende von Wissenschaft.“
Wenn wir uns laut genug wehren, dann ist zu hoffen, dass die Öffentlichkeit etwaige #Contrarians besser einordnen kann. Im Optimalfall werden sie dann auch nicht mehr in jede Talkshow eingeladen. Aber das ist whs #WishfulThinking …
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