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   Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 07:54:02 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

   vía #MichaelKlemmer on #LinkedIn

   I got on LinkedIn because someone told me it was the “professional thing to do” after retirement.

   Big mistake.

   This place is a digital motor pool full of self-appointed visionaries doing donuts in the mud, yelling about scaling, optimizing, and disrupting, while actively failing to comprehend anything larger than their own reflection in a ring light.

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 07:53:59 JST Ben Ramsey

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     • Reg Braithwaite 🍓

     @raganwald @paninid I opened LinkedIn today to find contact info for someone, and every single post in my feed was someone trying to convince me that AI changed their life and it’ll change mine, too, if I just accept it into my heart.

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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 07:54:01 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     @paninid LinkedIn reminds me of early days on Hacker News and here on Reddit. Social media doesn't reflect the world of tech, or even startup tech.

     Social media gives outsized attention to certain types of extroverted people, and it gives outsized attention to controversy and confirmation of bias relative to correctness or depth of experience.

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.