• Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      4 months ago

      I missed that(or have forgotten it already, a think which happens a lot with me re Yglesias. I have him mentally tagged as vague shithead, but never can recall why (and am aware this could be wrong)), tried a google search and couldn’t find anything, what is the story?

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        4 months ago

        David told the story in a recent Tech Won’t Save Us episode, basically Matty boy came to BlueSky, everyone started laughing at him for his bad takes (as well they should), and Matty cried for a block function so long and intensely that they gave it to him so he’d shut the fuck up.

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          4 months ago

          no, he complained and they scrambled to implement it for the Important Journalist

          who essayied to post a few more times and was pilloried again

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            4 months ago

            I guess my brain tweaked the story into something a little bit less bleak in self-defense.