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2098. arkymalarky - 11/3/2014 3:37:03 AM Can't find it online, but this issue of Wired has an interesting little post by Clive Thompson on negativity bias and how people tend to think people who act more acerbic are smarter. Money quote: "those who were trying to seem brainy went significantly more negative than those trying to be endearing." My favorite, "knowing about negativity has made me more skeptical of highbrow punditry that defaults to dour views."
Fit with the recent convo here IMO. 2100. arkymalarky - 11/3/2014 3:39:42 AM and what I've sometimes observed here over the years. 2101. bhelpuri - 11/3/2014 8:24:27 AM Thinking back to when many of us first started online interactions via Yahoo chatrooms + The Fray boards, I think what happened to online personae via blogs and comment sections is pretty astonishing. The fact that several monikers we knew then would go on to a kind of Internet celebrity, where their online life became the main focus of daily existence - let alone their livelihood - was, I think, pretty improbable at the time. I guess IrvingSnodgrass was kind of a frontrunner of this possibility, turning his online ubiquity (from Indonesia, no less) into his livelihood and identity. 2102. PsychProf - 12/18/2015 9:17:20 PM In real life, "Irv" earned his PHD, and was an extraordinary teacher, indeed, a Professor of Linguistics at a fine University.
I miss him. 2103. arkymalarky - 12/20/2015 4:32:13 PM Good, smart, kind irl, where it counts. 2104. ms. no - 12/23/2015 5:50:52 AM True dat.
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