Comment by _wire_
1 day ago
These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
1 day ago
These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
Yup. Soon as I read:
> I am going to focus on the putative political impacts of social media
I closed the tab.
Yeah I closed it when I saw the size of the scroll bar. If you need 100k words to make your point write a book.
Huh, I often have the reverse sentiment with a lot of books: this should have been a blog post. There's often a good intro which lays out the thesis, but each chapter is way too long, spelling out details that are obvious or superfluous.
As soon as I saw that his article has an introduction and the first line of it mentions that he wrote a long essay (as though long == good) I closed it
The author could have made the same points without using words like “polemicizing”, “putative”, and “epistemic”.