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I'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour. (www.thenation.com)

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Paris' editors are awesome and made my hesitant rambling sound snappy and lively too. This came out extremely well.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"you join google+ because .. a bunch of your friends have just moved from facebook"

point of order: pretty sure most people joined g+ because of that weird-ass "we're going to force EVERYONE with a google account to have a g+ account" shit (you know, that dumb shit which came around at the same time as the disastrously harmful g+ realname policy)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

yeah, i'm talking about the happier times just after launch, when the attraction was "facebook but it's not facebook"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

circles were unironically kinda good? bit of a shame that it was a google product tho, along with all the other stupid shit goog pushed

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

I had some good physics conversations on g+. Slivers of memory from happier times....