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Re:Reflections on Palantir by BryantD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:16AM (#41866626)
I tend to agree with you on this, but it's kind of an amusing comment given the linked article's comment on memes:

"the most talented people tend to develop their own vocabularies and memes, and these serve as entry points to a whole intellectual world constructed by that person."

Doctorow is not one of the examples he provides, but I'm not sure that any of this negates the point.

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Re:Reflections on Palantir by hitekker on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:56AM (#41866811)
"Above all things we should avoid often talking of ourselves and giving ourselves as an example; nothing is more tiresome than a man who quotes himself for everything." is the quote I reach for from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm
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Re:Reflections on Palantir by red-iron-pine on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:33AM (#41869524)
> Doctorow is not one of the examples he provides, but I'm not sure that any of this negates the point.

lol what? Doctorow created "enshitification" to describe rent seeking and its behaviors, and has been creating a technocratic journalist vocab since the BoingBoing days.

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Re:Reflections on Palantir by BryantD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:00PM (#41875741)
Yes, precisely.

The point is that we tend to think of jargon creators as particularly insightful when their biases/viewpoints match our own, and annoying when they don't.

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