This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.
Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.
no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
This has me envisioning a literature community filled with stories like "Random House and Penguin merging" (I know, old news), "Layoffs at PRH", etc.
Technology cannot be disentangled from society and the economics that create and develop it. Technology is social process, it is not a technical matter.
The idea that technology is a thing on its own, maybe even with its own agency, is an ideological stance pushed first and foremost by the people you don't want to hear about exactly for the purpose of obscuring their role in the whole deal.
And yet people can somehow be fascinated by how technology itself works without caring about the latest flap over copyright infringement or more proof that Elon Musk is loony. There are enough news forums for that material.
Just checking back after 3 months... it's nice to see improvement. There's still some sociopolitical crap, and one item about reddit's stock tanking - how TF is that even tech-adjacent? But overall lots more threads about actual technology than last time I took a hard look. Nice!
