The blog has been running since 2022 under a different domain name. It was then focused on economics, as the archive suggests. I'm currently migrating articles from the old host.

And what was the previous domain name?

apathetic.bid

Seems like mods nuked the thread now. Oh well

[flagged] is from users, not mods.

Oh, ok. Interesting. Thank you!

Well, this looks legit, as this is a real domain registered in 2022, but I still don't get why would you make a new post on a freshly registered domain after a 3-year pause and immediately submit it to HN.

Well, med school might be related to the 3-year pause thing.

Honestly, the situation was just too absurd/twisted/funny not to write about. I also had nothing to do yesterday so that helped.

I'm gonna write a part two about everyone turning against me, thinking I'm a bot haha.

> I still don't get why would you make a new post on a freshly registered domain after a 3-year pause and immediately submit it to HN

You don’t really have to get it, to be fair. If it was, to give an example, a poorly thought-out decision, then you’re just picking on them for that.

This phrasing from the home page is odd:

> When I publish my next piece I will personally write you an email, with some of my thoughts on the post.

‘My next piece’? Maybe for a part of a book or a long article, but for a blog post?

The next oddity, ignoring ‘personally’, which is inappropriate for a mailing list, is ‘…with some of my thoughts on the post’; you’re going to send me a piece with some of your thoughts on the post?

I’d expect more accurate phrasing from a med student.

Edit: tone down the criticism, I wrote without much thought that some one made the site; my apologies if I came off as overly critical.

I appreciate the feedback.

Sorry to pick apart your sentences, I wrote as if I was picking apart something computer generated, without a human in the loop.

Haha, no worries! You were right to call it out.

> ‘My next piece’? Maybe for a part of a book or a long article, but for a blog post?

This is common phrasing, even for blogs.

None of the other phrasing is out of place, either.

I think you're mistaking different phrasing preferences for LLM use.

So does that make it a further attempt to market junk with AI or an astroturfing campaign against AI.

I feel like the Old El Paso girl might have an opinion.

Maybe you're also part of this -- fresh hn account kinda sus? Double fake call out?

AI commenting on AI commenting on AI commenting on AI...

But yeah, X, LinkedIn, and the rest all feel like the bots and content farmers have taken over.

I believe the pay for engagement incentives make people be as controversial as possible just to earn money. Imagine you are in a low-income nation, you pretend to be from the USA, you could earn a higher daily income by posting engagement bait. It is in your interest to upset as many people as possible and then set up counter bots to argue with your fee earning bots.

Ironic that this comment is coming from an account with a green username, indicating it was also newly registered in the past couple days.

The only winning move is not to play. Get away from the internet forums and live your life in the real world. Alas we are all stuck here.

Seems like it. I went to church today for the IDK consecutive Sunday and it was all right.

Not the "Western civilization is declining because the kids stopped going to church" church but a church full of old hippies and young queers. It's been fun, sometimes I get takeout on the way home

I'm also tending my own website, which nobody else has write access to, so that I can link people to information I've vetted myself. Can't link it without doxxing myself sadly

Likewise been going to synagogue. I would hardly call myself a religious person. Far more a nihilist who thinks we should try and do good if it is truly all pointless. I think the meaningfulness and the sense of community is nice. It’s typically better than being glued to the kinetoscope

The common thread is that people need community. Living detached physical lives and using the internet to fill that gap is a modern disaster.