match.com
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match.com is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 05, 2022 and February 14, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “the founder of match.com”; “then Match.com bought it, murdered it, and gutted the corpse”. It most often appears alongside OKCupid, abundance liberalism, Aella.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 05, 2022
- Last seen: February 14, 2023
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- OKCupid (2 shared issues)
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- abundance liberalism (1 shared issues)
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- Alyssa Victory (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Edstrom (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Grossman (1 shared issues)
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- Austin (1 shared issues)
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- Barbara Lee (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Apparently our incumbent representative on the Santa Clara Valley Water District is the founder of match.com?? I feel like I have to vote against him because I'm still mad about OKCupid.
But in case that isn’t enough for you, said match.com founder - Gary Kremen - is also accused of “bullying” and “mistreating” workers and creating a “culture of fear” at the water district. He is additionally accused of sending unsolicited nude photos to employees and of “deceiving voters” in order to extend his term limits.
Somehow this never happens. OKCupid managed it for a few years, and then Match.com bought it, murdered it, and gutted the corpse. Now it’s just a wasteland of Tinder clones, forever. Sure, Luna’s rectification of the financial incentives is clever, but it seems like there’s been some kind of more fundamental failure. Why can’t we have the normal low-tech version? Why are things so bad that the people I know have been reduced to manually making profiles on Google Docs and listing them on an online spreadsheet?
Inline links: and listing them on an online spreadsheet
(I’m not making up these examples - the site for clowns is here, communists here, cowboys here)