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Brilliant plans for the future: https://theonion.info/?p=1 https://theonion.info/?p=1 > Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming w

Brilliant plans for the future: https://theonion.info/?p=1 https://theonion.info/?p=1 > Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

api 6mo ago
Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an anger induced aneurism. The skit would be a comical updated take on the Python skit. A hardened memelord shitposter troll is found dead in his basement, surrounded by rotted pizza boxes, empty energy drink cans, and penis enlargement pills. He had been working for years to create a meme that would simultaneously offend everyone. Something is on his screen. The person who finds it immediately flies into a rage so extreme they have an immediate brain aneurism and die. "We showed the meme to the most hardened Nazi edgelord trolls we could find on the worst Discords, Chans, and Telegram channels. Most did not survive. Some were saved by medical intervention but sustained severe brain damage..."
- rescripting 6mo ago
  See also, the children’s book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion.
- cwillu 6mo ago
  See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
- The_Blade 6mo ago
  it makes me think of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest, where the new Infowars just kills everyone who observes it by rendering them unable to do anything else, even make an agent for it
guzfip 6mo ago
> A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact. Zuckerberg already did it.
- z2 6mo ago
  No joke, I use Facebook every year or so to access the marketplace and at the time my feed was roughly half rage-bait, and the other half being what I can only describe as AI-generated almost-pornography. Both had thousands of what looked like genuinely real interactions per post, mostly from developing country users.
  - afavour 6mo ago
    I'm loathe to defend Facebook but most people's experience is not yours. The algorithm pushes content you're most likely to engage with, in your case it has nothing to go on so probably pushes whatever causes the most reaction in general.
    - actionfromafar 6mo ago
      Not sure that is defending.
    - jandrese 6mo ago
      No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts. I'm not sure if it is just what escapes across national boundaries or if social media in other countries is just way more horny, but every time I see a post where the text has been auto-translated from a different language it is thirst trap content. This is true across multiple social media platforms. It's especially prevalent on X for example, especially as they seem to be trying to showcase their Grok translations or something.
      - malshe 6mo ago
        > No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts. I don't know about FB as I quit it several years ago but I saw this happening on Instagram before I quit it too.
quisquous 6mo ago
It's like setting out to write "The King in Yellow"
- reactordev 6mo ago
  "...brought to you by Squarespace."
- ksymph 6mo ago
  I hadn't heard of this my entire life, but now three times in the past week I've seen it randomly pop up. Did I miss something, or is it just the frequency illusion at work? edit - interesting, Google trends shows it spiking over the past few months: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0m_7t&date=all&geo=US https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0m_7t&date=all&ge... (also a huge spike in 2014, I wonder what that was about?)
  - JudgeMonroe 6mo ago
    The first season of True Detective on HBO would be responsible for the 2014 spike.

api 6mo ago

Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an anger induced aneurism. The skit would be a comical updated take on the Python skit. A hardened memelord shitposter troll is found dead in his basement, surrounded by rotted pizza boxes, empty energy drink cans, and penis enlargement pills. He had been working for years to create a meme that would simultaneously offend everyone. Something is on his screen. The person who finds it immediately flies into a rage so extreme they have an immediate brain aneurism and die. "We showed the meme to the most hardened Nazi edgelord trolls we could find on the worst Discords, Chans, and Telegram channels. Most did not survive. Some were saved by medical intervention but sustained severe brain damage..."

rescripting 6mo ago
See also, the children’s book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion.
cwillu 6mo ago
See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
The_Blade 6mo ago
it makes me think of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest, where the new Infowars just kills everyone who observes it by rendering them unable to do anything else, even make an agent for it

guzfip 6mo ago

> A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact. Zuckerberg already did it.

z2 6mo ago
No joke, I use Facebook every year or so to access the marketplace and at the time my feed was roughly half rage-bait, and the other half being what I can only describe as AI-generated almost-pornography. Both had thousands of what looked like genuinely real interactions per post, mostly from developing country users.
- afavour 6mo ago
  I'm loathe to defend Facebook but most people's experience is not yours. The algorithm pushes content you're most likely to engage with, in your case it has nothing to go on so probably pushes whatever causes the most reaction in general.
  - actionfromafar 6mo ago
    Not sure that is defending.
  - jandrese 6mo ago
    No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts. I'm not sure if it is just what escapes across national boundaries or if social media in other countries is just way more horny, but every time I see a post where the text has been auto-translated from a different language it is thirst trap content. This is true across multiple social media platforms. It's especially prevalent on X for example, especially as they seem to be trying to showcase their Grok translations or something.
    - malshe 6mo ago
      > No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts. I don't know about FB as I quit it several years ago but I saw this happening on Instagram before I quit it too.

quisquous 6mo ago

It's like setting out to write "The King in Yellow"

reactordev 6mo ago
"...brought to you by Squarespace."
ksymph 6mo ago
I hadn't heard of this my entire life, but now three times in the past week I've seen it randomly pop up. Did I miss something, or is it just the frequency illusion at work? edit - interesting, Google trends shows it spiking over the past few months: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0m_7t&date=all&geo=US https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0m_7t&date=all&ge... (also a huge spike in 2014, I wonder what that was about?)
- JudgeMonroe 6mo ago
  The first season of True Detective on HBO would be responsible for the 2014 spike.