Bad Prose

The big social platforms being absolute trash, there is a form of tech-influencer post, common to LinkedIn or those long Tweet disasters, which open with “The absolute worst thing about X is...” and then the twist is that X is amazing, and it makes everything else look terrible in comparison. Bonus points doing it for your friend's startup, or Claude Code, or whatever new thing is dominating conversation.

Even relatively respected people will spray this warm egesta from their posting cloacae.

If I were younger and not so compromised nor innerly dead I think I'd make a Trash Catalog of trash posts—a new collection of updated rhetorical strategies for an era in which all critical thought has to be pulped out through the algorithmic Orange Julius thought squeezer.

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