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Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.

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zfg1y ago

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected.

You can't look the other way anymore.

pvgOP1y ago

Look away from what? Musk and his antics show up in threads regularly. But it can't be on the front page 5 times a day. There's an article discussing current admin shenanigans on the fp right now.

zfg1y ago

In your previous post you tried to deny and minimize the problem.

That kind of apathy is exactly what you can't afford to look away from.

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palmfacehn1y ago

Does anyone have anything new to say on these topics? We're going around and around in circles. Is there a substantial discussion? Do we learn anything new?

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AnimalMuppet1y ago

Maybe so. But I still don't have to talk about it here. There's lots of places to talk about politics, and Musk, ad nauseum. HN is supposed to be about something else.

Politics may be destroying a large number of things right now; I don't want it to destroy this site too.

chairmansteve1y ago

"But I still don't have to talk about it here".

But you repeatedly do...

zfg1y ago

Politics is a major part of the tech industry now. It's what it has become.

Building any kind of ethical framework for hardware and software engineering necessitates looking at the ugly side.

If Hacker News is genuinely not up to that then it's falling short.

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zfg1y ago

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected.

You can't look the other way anymore.

pvgOP1y ago

Look away from what? Musk and his antics show up in threads regularly. But it can't be on the front page 5 times a day. There's an article discussing current admin shenanigans on the fp right now.

zfg1y ago

In your previous post you tried to deny and minimize the problem.

That kind of apathy is exactly what you can't afford to look away from.

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palmfacehn1y ago

Does anyone have anything new to say on these topics? We're going around and around in circles. Is there a substantial discussion? Do we learn anything new?

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AnimalMuppet1y ago

Maybe so. But I still don't have to talk about it here. There's lots of places to talk about politics, and Musk, ad nauseum. HN is supposed to be about something else.

Politics may be destroying a large number of things right now; I don't want it to destroy this site too.

chairmansteve1y ago

"But I still don't have to talk about it here".

But you repeatedly do...

zfg1y ago

Politics is a major part of the tech industry now. It's what it has become.

Building any kind of ethical framework for hardware and software engineering necessitates looking at the ugly side.

If Hacker News is genuinely not up to that then it's falling short.

1 more reply

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