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https://slate.com/life/2026/09/comments-commenters-slate-friendship-love-death.html>
"I’ve been a journalist for long enough to be familiar with most of the job’s
occupational hazards. I’ve angered powerful people without a legal canopy to
protect me. My cursor has hesitated over the Send buttons of emails containing
invasive questions. I know what it’s like to be chewed out, to have your
confidence flattened, to junk entire drafts and start over from scratch. And
yet, for most of my career, I never did attract a personal troll.
In this line of work, having a troll is the opposite of having a fan. It’s
someone out there—across the astral span of the internet—who has decided to
keep tabs on what you publish with the singular intent of mocking everything
you write. Since I never had one, I wondered if people like this had gone
extinct alongside the rest of the web I used to know. After all, digital media,
and its trademark pugnacious tone, is basically defunct. The linear rapport
necessary for a blogger to become someone’s nemesis simply no longer applies;
the written word is on life support. At least, that’s what I thought—until I
discovered the
Slate comments section. At last, I had finally found my
haters."
Via
Garbage Day: Am I too boring to need an AI agent?
https://www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-boring-to-need-an-ai-agent
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
