and by weird I don't mean self-serving, though IMO it is often that, too, but just that "they don't agree with me; they must not know any better" is a fundamentally unpromising way to try to understand anyone's behaviour, especially coming from scholars of human societies
stuff like this is why I think it's perfectly reasonable to focus more on the harms being done than the on the fun some people undoubtedly do have playing around with our latest "just a tool"
the context is bad, and the context is where most of us live
they told me I couldn't poison kids, but who's laughing now? not the kids
great job everybody
this really is just Twitter 2.0 after all, huh
"people who are anti-AI pretend they don't use Zotero, they're obviously lying"
-- I actually don't use Zotero
"oh so using Zotero is bad now?"
pancakes, waffles
you can't step into the same Online Discourse twice. possibly not even once
