One of us must know which way the wind blows, right? So I launch Twitter on my phone, and see this: Hey, someone followed me! I wonder who that is? Er…
Tag: trolls
The Underbridges of Internetland
Sometimes, there’s nothing to do but laugh at them: The internet has taught us a number of things about human beings: Weirdness is way more well-distributed than we used to admit or believe. Groups of people can achieve pretty incredible things acting in concert, across vast distances, like building and refining the OS I’m using. Unpopular is simply a different value of popular. There are some uncomfortable truths mixed in there, too, though. One of them is the following: Some people are unrepentantly, irredeemably assholes… and the more anonymous they are, the more they allow their nature to show. At …