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Elizabeth Spiers
Personal blog · mynewbandis.substack.comculturewriting
Elizabeth Spiers writes My New Band Is, a personal blog at mynewbandis.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Slate Star Clusterfuck”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Elizabeth Spiers's Substack for its commentary on tech's attitudes toward journalism and on how outrage spreads online, including religious fervour in politics. Only two comments, both on these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Various thoughts about various things, from Elizabeth Spiers.
Most-linked posts?
- Slate Star Clusterfuck2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-14
What Hacker News says?
> The most troubling part of the NYT article is a glimpse into how hostile some tech folks are towards the idea of journalism: I thought this article was pretty insightful on that topic: https://mynewbandis.substack.com/p/slate-star-clusterfuck > There’s a specific kind of misunderstanding [about journalism] that’s pervasive in tech, and it falls in this taxonomy of fallacies somewhere between the commentary/reporti…
Comment linking /p/slate-star-clusterfuck
on ““Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers”Submitted Slate Star Clusterfuck as a story · 66 points
HN discussionIt probably isn't that simple though. This article puts forth that there was likely more going on, with the Tweets being the part that it was easy for people to be loud about: https://mynewbandis.substack.com/p/my-new-band-is-teenage-mi...
Comment linking /p/my-new-band-is-teenage-mistake
on “Religious fervour is migrating into politics”