@david_j_rothIn the name of being the change we want to see re: bringing back the Blog Era, @maria and I did an Awl-style yakkin' post about AI prose and the cretins who want to make it the future, and I guess also what is to be done about all that. https://popula.com/2023/04/30/yakkin-about-chatgpt-with-david-roth/
It feels like kind of a sad time online overall, just in terms of seeing a bunch of the last decade's stuff either resolving towards zero or eating shit because of idiotic ownership. I think there's a future for this, and I hope Defector and Popula both will be part of that. I don't know what it will look like, but I sense it's going to have to be a No Venture Capitalists Allowed affair.
Brian J. Link@david_j_roth The derogatory term in tech for companies like Defector is a "lifestyle business."
Unfortunately, a whole generation of tech-savvy people's brains have turned to mush because VCs and investors like Paul Graham taught them that growing fast and then selling out big, is the only true outcome.
Of course, that is the lesson those people teach because they are the ones profiting the most from the arrangement.