Feel like you want to sneer about something but you donāt quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota here and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
CZ created the Giggle Academy (from prison?) which seems to be an NFT fuelled education thing that wants everything to be automated with as little effort as possible.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240320105524/https://www.giggleacademy.com/
the website links to a āconcept paperā which is nothing but a brainstorm doc which has a clear problem statement followed by a list of mushy, kinda, sorta, items that donāt add up to much at all
https://web.archive.org/web/20240320105858/https://www.giggleacademy.com/Giggle Academy v0.4 20240221.pdf
such as these under āgamificationā;
or under ācompletely onlineā
The page has a careers page, looking for gamification people and content creators, so thereās at least some money there (?)
anyway, dodgy af
this project intrigues me because weāre able to see the brainstorm doc that he believes is shareworthy, combined with a reasonably slick website and a careers page.
There is no open position for a āproduct designerā or any kind of role that would be interested in concretely working on addressing the clear problem statement in the brainstorm doc. I have to assume there isnāt anyone in the group doing that already because they would not let a brainstorm doc be published like that, as if it has any value.
This is what bothers me so much about iterative design culture and the ādoing something is better than nothingā mantra. It makes out that identifying the problem/purpose is the assignment, and undermines the REAL design work of coming up with a good response to that purpose.
If this project gets off the ground, theyāll start building and theyāll hire UX designers and theyāll just make something that resembles an online school and focus on making sure it has blockchains and nfts and all that shit, and the whole concept of ādesignā will be relegated to user acceptance and finding frictions to remove.
At no point will anyone sit down and say āhow can we effectively address illiteracy in developing countriesā and find out why, what, how, and all the barriers, all the realities, the complexities, the options for means to achieve certain things, all the DESIGN.
Its no different for everything else in tech, they all start from this point where nothing was initially designed beyond throwing together an idea and iterating it into a behemoth that needs an army of staff to groom its hair and clip its toenails. The people given design titles (ux designers, product designers) are not answering to an overarching design or any principled basis for design.
it should also be said that the giggle academy is probably a publicity thing for CZās character
āChildrenās website launched by inmatesā ought to be the end of it.
skibidi toilet, right, but on the blockchain
I like the character arc of David learning about skibidi toilet and having his entire understanding of the universe pivoted with respect to it.
TELL ME IāM WRONG
my brain latches onto this as āgigglepigā (a la Brooklyn 99), and will accept no other meanings