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So if the NYTimes is such a bastion of credibility, how do you explain this newsdiff? This isn't just outright slanted, the article was originally neutral and somebody decided it needed to be edited from a factual report into a heroic tale in the battle for social justice:

https://archive.is/t4EVf

This is textbook propaganda, so perfect you could use it as classroom material.

Furthermore, we hear so much about social media filter bubbles, but it doesn't seem to occur to contemporary reporters that if they write stories based on what they see and hear on their own social feed, it is going to be equally skewed and subject to a massive preselected availability bias of their own making.

If you wanted to effectively manipulate the news, you'd organize massive protests and disruptions right outside every news station... Well, now this is the default mode for much of what you hear. Every time you read any story about online sentiment that is not explicitly statistical and honest and precise in its conclusions, it's pretty much bullshit from top to bottom for this reason.

Now, before you say this doesn't apply to "real" news in the "real" world, I remind you that the topics they haven't been able to shut up about for 5 minutes is Trump's tweeting, Russian trolls, and the online anger of a supposedly pervasive alt-right, and that they blame everything from Brexit to Charlottesville on that. This includes people who are frequently misquoted, misconstrued and misrepresented at a level that, if it isn't malice, is chronic and incurable professional incompetence.

Their incentives are not aligned with mine, because to me, truth and skepticism are foundational values.

I imagine many here would kill for some peace and quiet at work. The idea that I'd want to add noise and conversation into it is horrifying to me personally.

Even at home, I would never want to have some random thing blaring in the background. I only watch things that are worth my full attention.

Presumably it's a reference to the fact that DeGoes refused to roll over when activists tried to torpedo his conference for inviting the wrong kind of speaker after a double blind process. And continued to be pestered the next year because of another keynote speaker's unrelated tweets.

Having been to Lambdaconf, I can attest to it being an amazing event where people can nerd out shamelessly about functional programming without any bullshit or hostility. I highly recommend it. Easy to forget this is what all of open source used to be like, before the sociopaths moved in.

The supreme irony is the comment above seems to come from a guy kicked out of the Drupal community by the same kind of moralizing busybodies, for being too neuro-atypical and abrasive...