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The creator of the hated Neil deGrasse Tyson creepshot is defending his work New, comments. By cschodt Aug 9, , am EDT.

Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. He surreptitiously snapped a photo and posted it with this sarcastic caption: Some guy using his laptop on the train like a Dumbass nerd lol pic. More From The Verge. Sign up for the newsletter Verge Deals Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Just one more thing! Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you. Email required. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy.

These people are, frankly, living in a fantasy world. Celebrities ride the subway in New York City, and as a result cell phone pictures of subway-riding celebrities are all over the place. I see a couple a week. These people are public figures, and it goes with the territory.

But even more than that, your right to be not photographed evaporates the second you leave your home. You have no right to privacy when you step into the world which is why I'm always baffled when people blur license plates in pictures - these are literally public identifiers, they aren't social security numbers.

That's always been the case, but in a world with cameras everywhere it's more the case than ever. And I know what it's like to be photographed in public without your knowledge - recently I was shown a tweet that had a picture of me waiting in line at Starbucks and was captioned "It's hipster Artie Lange! It made me more paranoid about going to Starbucks all ruffled in the morning, but hey it's public and that's how being in public works.

Everybody can see you there. By the way, I empathize with dogboner on a smaller scale. I have more than once made an ironic tweet that was retweeted and seen by people who didn't have context. There have been many times where people who don't follow me on Twitter have attacked me for a statement they saw retweeted into their timeline which they didn't bother contextualizing; they just hit reply and yelled at me.

It's funny until it becomes overwhelming. I've had a couple of tweets go semi-viral - thousands of retweets - and you just start getting the dumbest and most aggressive replies, even to tweets that seem on their face to be obvious jokes ie, they have a joke structure.

I don't know that this is mob mentality, but it's certainly 'jump to conclusions' mentality. I'm reminded of the story that came out of Comic-Con this year about a cosplayer found bloodied and unconscious ; initial reports were that she had been assaulted and left by the side of the road and this caused a lot of uproar. People were freaking out about Comic-Con not having a strong enough anti-harrassment policy and saying this had led to an unsafe situation where this 17 year old cosplayer had been victimized.

Then the cops arrested a dude and the internet lined up ready to lynch him. Instead of taking a second to analyze the post, scores of people took it at face value and began ripping me apart for being a moron something I don't entirely disagree with. How could you not know who that was. You're a fucking idiot. I would have been kissing his feet. I would have sucked his dick. Et cetera. The internet is filled with nerds who are desperate to 1 demonstrate their love for science and 2 display their superiority to everyone else.

I had provided them all with a chance to do both, at the same time. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. The line between proud ignorance and sniggering sanctimony. Related Books.