I'm not sure what it happening in this 'Stack but participation has dropped off a lot. This was at one time the most active Substack I was on.
Maybe it's the number of alternatives, as anyone who enrolls as a reader now has his own forum, though most are empty. Maybe Steve has said all he has to say about race. Maybe the overwhelming unwh…
I'm not sure what it happening in this 'Stack but participation has dropped off a lot. This was at one time the most active Substack I was on.
Maybe it's the number of alternatives, as anyone who enrolls as a reader now has his own forum, though most are empty. Maybe Steve has said all he has to say about race. Maybe the overwhelming unwholesomeness of online discourse has become too offputting. Certainly there is more protection for trolls now than for plain speech.
My own online writing is near zero now, I had a heart attack six weeks ago and the hospitalization that followed gave me a very grave nosocomial Staph infection leaving me almost too weak to walk. But that's just me.
"I'm not sure what it happening in this 'Stack but participation has dropped off a lot. This was at one time the most active Substack I was on"
that's my fault. I was dealing with some personal issues that tanked my online activity. Most people are still around, but a little less engaged. I'm mostly back on track now.
Very sorry to hear about your health issues. Are you mending?
Chris, I am very sorry to hear about your heart attack and Staph infection. I sincerely you are able to fully recover, and feel better soon.
I rarely post comments, but have always found your input to be very constructive and enlightening. Unfortunately, I think that the drop-off in participation is likely due to so many other distractions and very heavy news cycle due to world and national events.
For me, even with very limited time due to so many other news/reading related distractions trying to keep up with current major geopolitical, national, techno, and societal events, I find time to read Steve's articles for his excellent writing and perspective. I have also appreciated the folks, like you, who contribute very thoughtful comments to the Stack.
For me -- in my off-work hours, I have been spending time on tech/security/Gen AI related topics, as the direction we are headed is a very big concern to me -- right up there, and related to, the ease of creating deep fakes and disinformation at scale. It infuriates me how disinformation and outrageous lies being allowed/accepted as 'normal' in current public discourse. I fear for our mental and physical health as individuals and as a society. We were not designed mentally for the current environment in which we find ourselves.
I think we are going to come to profoundly regret AI. Already it’s become routine to distrust what we see.
The reaction we need are that we are not getting nor likely to get is a revulsion against lies, misinformation, disinformation, in all their forms. It’s simply astonishing how Trump can say the things he does and suffer no consequences. He gets people killed.
AI replaces discernment with an algorithm that has little if any bias negation. Thus far I have resisted purposefully using it, but we are getting it good and hard anyway.
I'm not sure what it happening in this 'Stack but participation has dropped off a lot. This was at one time the most active Substack I was on.
Maybe it's the number of alternatives, as anyone who enrolls as a reader now has his own forum, though most are empty. Maybe Steve has said all he has to say about race. Maybe the overwhelming unwholesomeness of online discourse has become too offputting. Certainly there is more protection for trolls now than for plain speech.
My own online writing is near zero now, I had a heart attack six weeks ago and the hospitalization that followed gave me a very grave nosocomial Staph infection leaving me almost too weak to walk. But that's just me.
I don't know anyone in the USA who is doing well.
"I'm not sure what it happening in this 'Stack but participation has dropped off a lot. This was at one time the most active Substack I was on"
that's my fault. I was dealing with some personal issues that tanked my online activity. Most people are still around, but a little less engaged. I'm mostly back on track now.
Very sorry to hear about your health issues. Are you mending?
Chris, I am very sorry to hear about your heart attack and Staph infection. I sincerely you are able to fully recover, and feel better soon.
I rarely post comments, but have always found your input to be very constructive and enlightening. Unfortunately, I think that the drop-off in participation is likely due to so many other distractions and very heavy news cycle due to world and national events.
For me, even with very limited time due to so many other news/reading related distractions trying to keep up with current major geopolitical, national, techno, and societal events, I find time to read Steve's articles for his excellent writing and perspective. I have also appreciated the folks, like you, who contribute very thoughtful comments to the Stack.
For me -- in my off-work hours, I have been spending time on tech/security/Gen AI related topics, as the direction we are headed is a very big concern to me -- right up there, and related to, the ease of creating deep fakes and disinformation at scale. It infuriates me how disinformation and outrageous lies being allowed/accepted as 'normal' in current public discourse. I fear for our mental and physical health as individuals and as a society. We were not designed mentally for the current environment in which we find ourselves.
I think we are going to come to profoundly regret AI. Already it’s become routine to distrust what we see.
The reaction we need are that we are not getting nor likely to get is a revulsion against lies, misinformation, disinformation, in all their forms. It’s simply astonishing how Trump can say the things he does and suffer no consequences. He gets people killed.
AI replaces discernment with an algorithm that has little if any bias negation. Thus far I have resisted purposefully using it, but we are getting it good and hard anyway.