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I don't know about any discussion sites that are about technology rather than tech fetishism, neither Slashdot, Soylent News, or Pipedot, nor Ars Techinca or the Register which aren't really discussion sites. None of the blogs I know about either, no matter how famous or well reputed, nor any of the mailing lists, and certainly not the low end gossip & celebrity sites like Wired.

With one or two exceptions there is no widely or easily available public informed debate of any significant value concerning current technological issues rather than specific hardware or software. The exceptions I've seen are one or maybe two intentionally obfuscated proxy discussions which would have been interesting anyway solely based on their proxy nature. There is also some relevant academic work being published but it's very rare.

Of course I don't expect this to change, it's asking too much and requires too much work, the occasional insightful comment is all that is on offer and I expect those to disappear as well because they've become markedly rarer.

Normalization of the new status quo and nostalgia for a past that wasn't is all it really is, can't say I mind that much myself, one has to accept it when that's the way it is and instead aim for victory through defeat once more :)