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4 Microlog entries tagged with ‘bullshit’
John Gruber comments on accusations that Steve Jobs built freedom-sapping digital ‘prisons’
Jesus, Gruber drives me mental sometimes. Maybe calling Apple products and services ‘tyrannical’ or ‘freedom-sapping digital prisons’ is overstating the point, but it’s pretty clear those words are being used for rhetorical emphasis, not absolute literalism, so that smug bullshit doesn’t play. As for the main point: if you invest so much in a closed system (like I have), it’s never as easy as just choosing to leave. Could I switch platforms tomorrow and go back to a Windows-based set-up? Not without an outlay of thousands of euro and a few solid days of software installation. ‘Prison’ might be too strong, but ‘debtor’s prison’ is an apt simile in this case. Permalink ·
Why my kids are pop-culture illiterate
I’m only posting this here as an example of the kind of smug elitism – the attitude that popular or ‘corporate’ culture equals low culture and is therefore unfit – that I truly detest. As if there’s some virtue in their kids being unable to relate to their peers on a basic cultural level! Bullshit of the highest order. Permalink ·
ANC’s Julius Malema lashes out at ‘misbehaving’ BBC journalist
South Africa can’t and won’t improve until dangerously misleading relics and liars like Malema are out of the picture. Permalink ·
Yahoo! Answers
It’s hopelessly clogged with bullshit, and Ask MetaFilter is better anyway, but it might be worth exploring if you have the time or the patience. Permalink ·
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