Hackers' Pub

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek@mastodon.social

9/30/2025, 6:59:05 AM

Public

Long but very good:

"An essay on wank"

It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!

I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it says what it facially does, but also not push too hard or at all, because challenging the factuality or other face-value elements of the statement is a personal attack on the person saying it and their identity. I'm sure we've all been in such situations, unfortunately, and we can all point to lots of situations where wank is prevalent in our current society.

deadsimpletech.com · deadSimpleTech

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