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Antonio García Martínez
Personal blog · thepullrequest.comculturepoliticsstartups
Antonio García Martínez writes The Pull Request, a personal blog at thepullrequest.com about culture, politics and startups. Since 2020, 44 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “The Holy Church of Christ Without Christ”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Antonio García Martínez's newsletter covers politics, religion, Cuba, and Francis Fukuyama. HN commenters cite it for an argument about moral infinities and for his perspective on Cuba.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technology, media, culture, religion and the collisions therein, from your utterly basic Cuban Jewish writer-technologist.
Most-linked posts?
- The Holy Church of Christ Without Christ4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-13
- The Future of (Ads) Privacy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-06
- To Catch a Priest (with location data)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-02
- Everything Is an Ad Network3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-08
- Bad Apple*3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-23
- Why Judaism? – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-03
- Drum Major of the Miami Parade2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-01
- The right to never be forgotten2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-30
- A personal note on Cuba and what it can teach Americans now2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
- Martin Gurri and the ungovernable public2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
What Hacker News says?
I found a good articulation of this here: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-holy-church-of-christ-w... "Suddenly we’ve got numerical infinities on that ethics spreadsheet, inputs that win out against any finite moral optimization. Where to put the infinities on the spreadsheet is of course the entire point of this metaphysical endeavor. We need the axiomatic moral imperatives, whether they be human life or free s…
Comment linking /p/the-holy-church-of-christ-without
on “Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time”Submitted A man whose software ate the world as a story · 139 points
HN discussionThe problem articulated by Antonio Garcia-Martinez: > The customer always gets what they want: In the case of an ads-driven business model where the advertiser is the true customer, that’s balanced political news alongside frivolous lifestyle stories as a canvas for ads. In the case of subscribers, it’s being flattered by having their own worldviews echoed back at themselves in more articulate form. Nobody actually…
Comment linking /p/twilight-of-the-media-elites
on “Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy”Submitted The American diversity meat grinder as a story · 102 points
HN discussionwell, he is actually Cuban who lives in US and follows the situation. I am willing to believe his take much more than random dudes from CA. Here's some of his writings on Cuba. https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-cuban-tank-man-will-be-...
Comment linking /p/the-cuban-tank-man-will-be-an-influencer
on “Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution”Submitted We are no longer a serious people as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSounds like this pop view of Fukuyama is inaccurate https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/history-restarts?s=r Most people have a meme-level understanding of him and no idea what he has really said. This is relevant today as the pile-on of negative comments on his credibility are based on this meme-level understanding.
Comment linking /p/history-restarts?s=r
on “Francis Fukuyama: Preparing for Defeat”Submitted Martin Gurri and the ungovernable public as a story · 67 points
HN discussionThis comment: The insane thing here: the _financial_ cost of the war in afghanistan, which lasted deacdes and involved hundreds of thousands of people, and logistical operations spanning the globe, is less than the amount of money we printed in 2020. https://www.newsweek.com/how-much-did-war-afghanistan-cost-1... Talk about 'reality being optional' - in the financial markets, it still very much is optional https://w…
Comment linking /p/we-are-no-longer-a-serious-people/comments
on “We are no longer a serious people”Submitted Bad Apple* as a story · 56 points
HN discussioni could see author's guilt to have such a privilege. I am so happy that I am a first-generation Chinese living in North America. The "Culture Revolution" of America is not getting to me yet. but i know one day it will get to me, as what happened in China "Culture Revolution". No one could escape it. his writing reminds me what those self-confession letters people "in privilege" made in China from 50s to 70s. We are…
Comment linking /p/the-american-diversity-meat-grinder
on “A Year in Deno Land”Submitted We are no longer a serious people as a story · 39 points
HN discussionAntonio García Martínez of thepullrequest.com has been writing recently about Cuba and offering interesting perspectives. I like this article, in particular: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-contrarevolucion-will-b... In his most recent article Antonio states that there is a lot of opportunity to support Cubans with improved internet access. Articles like this one from 2014, however, do concern me that any suppo…
Comment linking /p/the-contrarevolucion-will-be-livestreamed
on “The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket (2014)”Submitted There Is No 'Them' as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted The American-Dream-as-a-Service as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Christ with a Thousand Faces as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Catch a Priest (with location data) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting Predators – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gen X Marks the Spot as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are no longer a serious people as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Holy Church of Christ Without Christ as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are no longer a serious people as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Apple as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Apple: On the slings and arrows of cancellation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a (crypto) coup – by Antonio García Martínez as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Judaism? – By Antonio García Martínez – The Pull Request as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of (Ads) Privacy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freeze Peach and the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The right to never be forgotten as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Judaism? On abandoning secular modernity as a story · 3 points
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