kottke.org6d ago
“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets
Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people

Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

Fritinancy
Show thread2xfo
@kottke
Substack platforms Nazis for profit. They defend their right to profit by disseminating Nazi ideas and they push Nazi ideas in their notifications.
(I just think a lot of people must be unaware or they wouldn't look for information there)
Mar 23 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)6d ago

@RnDanger @kottke The challenge, as always, is that there are also a bunch of leftists and left-leaning journalists (e.g. Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo, Drop Site News, Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, etc) who are doing great work. I'm not saying your point isn't valid (it is), but rather that unfortunately it's balancing that awful fact against the need to support great journalists doing important work.

I wish everyone would move to Ghost.

Show thread2xfo6d ago

@chiraag @kottke
I think most of us quit Twitter for good reasons. I think those same reasons apply here 🙃

And yeah, i also wish people would switch to ghost or do anything else with the energy they expend defending flawed outlets as necessary evils

Show threadCJPaloma might be hiking6d ago

@RnDanger @chiraag @kottke

my 2 cents:

I think it's a combo of knowledge deficit, AND that people just don't always live their values...

Western psych doesn't have super reliable /easy ways to crack that issue for huge numbers of people who do all kinds of things they know aren't optimal (like me, every year I gain "a winter pouch" because I continue to eat like I do at other times of the year -when I'm out exercising much more. I know what I need to do, but year after year, I don't do it).

Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSC6d ago
@RnDanger @chiraag @kottke I didn't quit Twitter because of the Elongated Muskrat. I was banned from Twitter in 2017 because I insulted Nazis and said that the only platform we should give to Nazis is a wooden one with a trapdoor and a noose.
Show threadRedwoodSec4d ago
@chiraag @RnDanger @kottke ghost needs a free plan like other platforms