Careercow Taylor Lorenz - Crybully "journalist", self-appointed Internet Hall Monitor, professional victim, stalks teenagers for e-clout

[John_Smith]

The shadow libraries seem to have copies of the book. Z-library, Libgen and Anna's Archive. I have no interest in reading it.

DRM removal starts with these plugins for Calibre https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3 Getting them to work with kindle books is currently a PITA but there are helpful guides if you go looking. Given how shitty the formatting is on many ebooks, removing the DRM so you can clean them up to be readable on an e-ink screen is mandatory.

Do you think Taylor has an insider at Goodreads or Amazon who deletes some of the negative reviews? Lolcow Patrick Tomlinson has someone at Goodreads who does that for him.

 

[Lizard Pope]

Book stores are a waste of retail space. They’re generally cheaper to download, and pretty much the only reason you’d buy physical copies is if you want to stock a little book shelf somewhere to look like a smart person. The book is equivalent to a crocheted pussy hat

When the solar flare hits and buttfucks your e-book-reader-thing, I'll still have my books while you have nothing but your limp dick.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

When the solar flare hits and buttfucks your e-book-reader-thing, I'll still have my books while you have nothing but your limp dick.

Sure you will, as long as the paper manufacturer used alkaline buffers to negate the acid hydrolysis of cellulose and you store your books at 30% humidity in a wine cellar. Then they might last as long as a magnetic hard drive that’s been left unpowered, but every time the hard drive writes something, it re-magnetizes itself and restarts the countdown timer

 

[AnOminous]

How long will it be until "Extremely Online" will be found in those discount bookshops that have tables full of closeout specials for $0.99 each?

It will probably be more like Zoe Quinn's masterpiece which simply can't be found anywhere at all.

Then they might last as long as a magnetic hard drive that’s been left unpowered, but every time the hard drive writes something, it re-magnetizes itself and restarts the countdown timer

My oldest book is over 100 years old and I don't even collect old books. My family used to have a 200+ year old Bible too, which was a bit battered but readable. While most books won't last that long, there are books dating back well over 1,000 years and even a few from B.C.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

My oldest book is over 100 years old and I don't even collect old books. My family used to have a 200+ year old Bible too, which was a bit battered but readable. While most books won't last that long, there are books dating back well over 1,000 years and even a few from B.C.

Yeah, through the 1800s, a lot of paper was made from cotton rags and was surprisingly decent quality. Parchment and vellum also have great longevity.

Paper made from mashed up, chemically separated wood fibers is relatively new, and has the problem of creating trace amounts of sulphuric acid over time.

If someone is particularly fancy, they’ll add alkaline materials to the wood pulp with the specific intent to offset the acid as it forms, but that’s not the default.

Anyways, the switch to chemically separated wood pulp is what I was alluding to in an earlier comment where I mentioned planned obsolescence. Of course I was kinda hyperbolizing, like I think the ultimate explanation is just that it’s cheap to do on an industrial scale and not actually some malicious actor inventing physical DRM, but they definitely KNOW that paper doesn’t last as long anymore.

Also, as far as paperbacks that people actually read, the average life span is 10-20 years provided you live with zero toddlers. I think that also, however, the average person doesn’t reread their paperbacks very often. I’m not sure what the stat would be in terms of reads, but every page that sees light takes oxidative damage and absorbs shit from your hands.

In my adolescence through my teens, I had a thing for those 800-1000 page fantasy/sci-fi paperbacks and the binding was usually such shit that entire chapters would fall out on my second read or so.

Somewhere out there, someone probably still has an early edition of Gray’s Anatomy bound in human skin, and they probably keep it in a controlled atmosphere and never, ever flip the pages. But outside of that, I just generally wouldn’t recommend investing in books as collectors’ items on account of the deterioration.

The library of Congress website has a whole section discussing this stuff, for anyone else feeling autistic. Before clown world dawned, they put in an insane amount of effort trying to figure out how to preserve every historical document indefinitely.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Haven't seen that mythical damage yet, not even in my early 90s paperbacks (quality of paper went to absolute shit after fall of communism)

 

[rusty shackleford 1]

Holy shit. That keyboard picture. The leggings don’t photograph well at all on her and the dumb keyboard on head pose is dumb. Reminds me of the keffals photos where he just holds a bunch of old consoles or whatever. She ages herself somehow in her insistence to dress young. Idk what it is, it’s like she’s trying too hard and she just looks uncanny.

The fact that she has a review on her book that calmly lays out the reasons why the reader has shelved it, and the person admits she’s screeched at them to take it down because muh misinformation is just so Taylor Lorenz.

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

"This was undeniably well researched and written, however, it just did not hold my attention."

"The first 60% if fantastic, the book fizzles a bit on the way out."

Lol, talk about damning with faint praise.

 

[AnOminous]

Somewhere out there, someone probably still has an early edition of Gray’s Anatomy bound in human skin, and they probably keep it in a controlled atmosphere and never, ever flip the pages. But outside of that, I just generally wouldn’t recommend investing in books as collectors’ items on account of the deterioration.

But if you actually do have that controlled atmosphere, it's definitely a good idea, I mean assuming you start young and have 50 years or so to wait before cashing in, or intend to leave it to your kids. Because even relatively rare books are not worth much in deteriorated, shabby condition, but in mint or pristine condition are worth lots.

Same applies to coins, stamps, currency of any sort, toys, or other items that tend to get battered and are rarely found in excellent condition after the passage of time.

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

In my adolescence through my teens, I had a thing for those 800-1000 page fantasy/sci-fi paperbacks and the binding was usually such shit that entire chapters would fall out on my second read or so.

I used to love David Eddings' stuff around that age, and had the same experience (lol). It was especially bad with the Mallorean series; a few of those had whole chunks of pages that had come loose after a few rereads.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

But if you actually do have that controlled atmosphere, it's definitely a good idea, I mean assuming you start young and have 50 years or so to wait before cashing in, or intend to leave it to your kids. Because even relatively rare books are not worth much in deteriorated, shabby condition, but in mint or pristine condition are worth lots.

Same applies to coins, stamps, currency of any sort, toys, or other items that tend to get battered and are rarely found in excellent condition after the passage of time.

I’m a cynic and a wignat, but sure, it’s probably better to put your money with something guaranteed to increase in rarity that you have control over than to put it in stocks in our new era of managers being immune to fiduciary duty as long as they claim some random social benefit.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

When the solar flare hits and buttfucks your e-book-reader-thing, I'll still have my books while you have nothing but your limp dick.

I doubt there will be much reading done after societal collapse, especially when the e-reader-only people start hunting down the rest of the us to burn the books as an offering to bring the Electronic Gods back.

Anyway boys we didn't make it:

edit: Might as well get the Gamergate part before I delete it:

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

She should of named her book "Continually Uncovering Nazi Tweets" or C.U.N.T for short.

 

[AnOminous]

I’m a cynic and a wignat, but sure, it’s probably better to put your money with something guaranteed to increase in rarity that you have control over than to put it in stocks in our new era of managers being immune to fiduciary duty as long as they claim some random social benefit.

There's not much you should collect as an "investment," but if you already do collect it you should take care of it as if it were an investment.

 

[Iron Hamster]

The leggings don’t photograph well at all on her

Gotta hide the cellulite somehow...................

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

She should of named her book "Continually Uncovering Nazi Tweets" or C.U.N.T for short.

Wouldn't that be a book LibsofTikTok would write though since that's all she did on TikTok.

 

[Next Task]

The more harassment they claim was sent during Gamergate the less I believe any of it, even though I know there will have been exactly those sorts of attacks because I have been online and have eyes.

But this really just distils down the progressive viewpoint here: 'You do it in bad-faith, so it's bad. I do it in good-faith, so it's good.' There's other ways of phrasing it, from 'no bad actions just bad targets' to the classic 'the ends justify the means', but reducing it to something as simplistic as phrasing it so their enemies have the adjective bad so they must be bad really emphasises the Current Year aspect. That obsession with identity, with designating something as inherently evil so your zealotry is justified, with how important it is to control the definitions of words and who gets to use which ones, the lack of empathy and theory of mind to comprehend that other people can disagree with you for non-malicious reasons.

I have come to learn that people who go on about 'bad-faith' are universally terrible people.

 

[AnOminous]

There's other ways of phrasing it, from 'no bad actions just bad targets' to the classic 'the ends justify the means', but reducing it to something as simplistic as phrasing it so their enemies have the adjective bad so they must be bad really emphasises the Current Year aspect.

So pretty much this:

 

[Popper Whiting]

There's not much you should collect as an "investment," but if you already do collect it you should take care of it as if it were an investment.

A pity Taylor seems to have taken this philosophy concerning grievance.

 

[Vect]

That obsession with identity, with designating something as inherently evil so your zealotry is justified, with how important it is to control the definitions of words and who gets to use which ones, the lack of empathy and theory of mind to comprehend that other people can disagree with you for non-malicious reasons.

For Lorenz specifically, I think it's because online shitfights with no grand plan behind them are inscrutable for journalists because the key to every news story is the why, or the motive. Taylor's interpretation of GamerGate is victim to the same ignorance of Internet culture she ascribes to the media, which is where instead of viewing it as a controversy about a specific set of issues that snowballed into wider related issues and then into a vector for everyone and their mother's political pet peeves, it becomes an alt-Right culture war campaign because that's the only uniting motive that allows the story of GamerGate to work.

More broadly, when people who only have access to (or only permit themselves to access) one side of the full picture, they don't have the information necessary to make the empathetic gap to people they disagree politically with. In absence of tangible motivation, people will generally default to assuming hostile intent to people's behavior, which obviously creates a feedback loop. If you have been told that the events of GamerGate had nothing to do with ethics in game journalism nor the conduct of Zoe Quinn and instead was a targeted harassment campaign against women for craven political purposes, you would assume that all the proximate people behind it were filled with purposefully malevolent intentions - which leads to the prevailing belief that reconciliation is impossible. Extreme action is the only rational response because you are dealing with a fanatic who's goals don't make any sense because you're missing the information needed to understand the way they behave.

The 'radicalization to disinformation' narrative is an attempt by often-sheltered people with very narrow life-experience to charitably understand why hate comments, trolls and other discomforts exist online - how so many people hate and resent the utopian world they champion, even as they dismiss or are insulated from the information that would give them cause to question it's merits themselves. The urge to bluntly separate the world into absolute good and evil and gain affirmation in doing so seems to me a byproduct of people desperately trying to ground themselves in the resulting media landscape that makes the world make less sense.