@The_Icarian This is clever, but those people are in their 80s and 90s now, if they're alive at all, so I don't think they're really the driving force of this. It's more people exactly like them who don't want people to understand the full context of the horrible things they do.
@cherold@The_Icarian Given the US President is 81, there could still be plenty of people who were involved in events like this who could be exerting influence in this regard.
@amydiehl I remember my mom needing to get my dad's signature for a Sears store card because they wouldn't allow a woman to get one on her own. That was mid-'70s.
@RolfBly@patrickworld@APBBlue the silly bubs will absolutely crush the plants, so I learned to bend wire mesh around it, or if you can find a small cage for like, carrying dwarf rabbits, planting directly inside it.
So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.
One big mystery to me is why YouTube, which is run by demonstrable rent-seeker Google, nevertheless gives creators close to 50% of ad rev by their stuff. The result? The most vibrant online creation scene. Not to say it doesn't have loads of issues and bullshit, but you really get high production value stuff, creating a virtuous cycle.
But most sites don't do this, so in addition to harming good things like arts and journalism, they're harming their own food source.
Btw, just to throw some numbers on this. If I got one-hundredth of a penny every time a comic of mine was viewed next to an ad on Facebook, Instagram, etc. it would be my best revenue source.
@PurpCat@Inginsub@kirby And VC funbux to pay for things like file hosting and video streaming. I agree that the internet's a better place when things are less centralized, meaning more people chip in when it comes to work and money, but 99% of the world does not.
@mrsaturday@Inginsub@PurpCat@kirby you can't beat "it just works" (way more than the alternatives) and "it's free" (you pay with your soul). ive spent way less time fighting with it than with matrix and xmpp, and ive ditched both for being an absolute ass ache to set up, use and maintain. i still hope they get the improvements they need to be good competition, but im not ideologically fixed to any platform, so ill use what works today and not in the year of the linux desktop
In any case, it is beside the point. Humans have libraries and dolphins do not, therefore humans have a higher class of intelligence. But it still is an intelligence founded on a NON-VERBAL foundation.
@cherold@MattMerk or maybe I’ve defined it over and over and refuse to do it at every smoothbrain cracker’s request. You people get so offended when you don’t get what you want when you want it
There is no such thing as the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is a figment of the supersessionist imagination. It is a term meant to co-opt Jews and Jewish history into a #Christian narrative to give legitimacy to that narrative. It is a term that erases #Jews and #Judaism. Everyone should stop using that term.
@robbienorlyn@antonia@serge@littlemiao Mostly I’ve heard it from right wingers trying to impose some sort of “morality” on the allegedly non-moral people they don’t like.
#JudeoChristian is a term that attempts to allege a harmonious history of European Christians and Jews. This has no basis. Europe has a long antisemitic history, obviously.
Jews have a longer history of living in harmony with Muslims than they do European Christians. The idea of a “Judeo-Christian” culture is ridiculous.
@TonyStark@antonia@serge@littlemiao Yup, the facts that “moderate” and a good number of liberal Christians hate. The right wingers love to erase Jews because of their need to be “superior.”
In fact, it’s kind of interesting reading the accounts of the Christians who reclaimed territories from Muslims complain about Jews.
Also, to be fair, living conditions under either of these groups was contingent upon whatever their warlord rulers felt or wanted at any given time.
The person adding an LLM that tells people to put glue in their pizza and the person who adds four paragraphs to their article for PageRank reasons are not doing different things.
It’s not like one is a problem and the other not. They’re not even different kinds of problem. They are doing THE. SAME. THING.
When you distort your content for SEO purposes (or create it in the first place for SEO purposes), just like people pushing LLMs, you are destroying and/or obfuscating real information.
I have a theory that the men who reply to posts with some version of "not all men" do so because they see some of themselves in whatever statement was made and they don't like it.
This is such a dastardly trap because every man who sees this wants to reply with some version of ‘not me’ as a joke. Not me though, I’m different. Not like those other men. Oh no…….