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by TFNA 5mo ago
I’d argue that microblogging inherently trends towards social pathologies, since there is little room for nuance in such short-form text. Not to mention that those other platforms already have their own established cultures and shibboleths
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Why do you think they would be so bothered by what humans do, when the same kind of thing is done across the animal world? Read about ants milking aphids, for instance.
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> Although the right's problems in this regard are fairly apparent; they despise the ... social safety nets that could help protect the disadvantaged. This is a distinguishing feature of USA politics, but it isn’t universal. Several
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by TFNA 5mo ago
No, the small web is not the same as it was. It used to be that a decent amount of people documenting certain hobbies were documenting it on the small web, but the generation that aged out was never replaced; all the younger people are on c
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I thought the same before I did the math: 2015 − 25 means too early for that 1996 release. But describing Sasha & John Digweed’s Northern Exposure as “progressive house” feels anachronistic, and Sasha at least is known to dislike that
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by TFNA 5mo ago
You just need to embody the AI in something that moves, and then people will definitely treat it as a new species. Already happening in my town with delivery robots: when they get stuck on a kerb, a person will stop and help them up the ker
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Isn’t the weird sex stuff just another example of how prescient the novel was? Within just a few years after its publication we got Tumblr.
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Eating yoghurt and fresh fruit to replenish gut bacteria has long been common medical advice after severe-diarrhea illnesses. Something does indeed get through.
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I came here to post something similar. PG is perhaps still important as an archive of proofread OCRed public-domain material, but for ordinary people, the shadow libraries have vastly more stuff. After all, readers don’t want their reading
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> Especially with the decline of Google Oddly enough, Google’s LLM is the only one that has been answering my questions well on a research project these last weeks. I’m getting information from scanned text files that exist on the intern
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Notice much Catholic Church power in Northern Germany and the Nordic countries? The printing press was a huge part of how Northern Europe went so hard for Lutheranism that Catholicism became a vague folk memory. Around the same time, Great
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Are you still on Last.fm? I finally deleted my account last year after the site had been a ghost town for over a decade. Long decline from the early millennium when seemingly every hipster in my town scrobbled and music was an IRL social th
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by TFNA 5mo ago
If you spend a lot of time in the shell and are used to manipulating text via chains of piped Unix utilities, then MPD controlled by mpc lets you put music on without leaving that environment that is comfortable and efficient. For example,
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by TFNA 5mo ago
You don't need much long-form writing for your idiolect to be identifiable. I recently returned to Reddit after a break and see that people generally don't write very long comments now, except for the autistic and others who can&#
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by TFNA 5mo ago
The other person says "join a community", but those forms of community which are strong are so often unfriendly to weird people like us. For example, Southeast European cafe culture might still bring neighbours (well, at least the
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I don't have the link, but this claim almost always gets made in these kinds of comment threads, and then someone points out that American mobility is in fact lower today than it was in the late twentieth century. And different countri
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Even Golden Age TV documentaries can seem dumbed down compared to actual books. Even at the time, in the 1960s and 1970s, thinkers expressed concern that the medium of television was inherently likely to delight audiences with spectacle mor
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I am talking about the psychological effect, not the accounts being banned. Accounts pretending to be e.g. bona-fide Red State MAGA Americans are not going to successfully manipulate the American populace or move MAGA merchandise if the nam
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Shilling by nation-level actors often involves paying South Asians or Africans to create profiles claiming to be an ordinary person from somewhere completely different. Or people in said countries may not even be paid by a geostrategic riva
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Note that when I say "writing their own HTML", I don't mean handcrafting a whole webpage. I mean that people were writing i or b tags in their Wordpress editors or in online comment boxes, because back then such text fields
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by TFNA 5mo ago
XHTML failed in an era when writers (even normies) were writing some HTML of their own and they could't be trusted to close their tags properly. XHTML also assumed writers would be personally invested in semantic markup like distinguis
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I agree. Even where blogging and sharing information is still around, it is strongly linked with brand-building, monetization, and engagement-maxxing. Look at all the old Wordpress bloggers who switch to Substack in order to have some eyeba
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> Russian Empire didn't give the conquered nations the alphabet, but USSR did, as part of supporting local nationalists. Many languages of Russia got their alphabets already in the late nineteenth century or around the 1906 rebellio
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by TFNA 6mo ago
> Maybe the fediverse can (eventually) help? It’s been a while since I looked at it. The fediverse has been around for well over a decade in some form or another. It never caught on with society enough to make a difference. And unfortuna
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> People crave human interaction with like minded individuals I don’t think they crave it enough to make a difference. Even before AI slop, Reddit had made successive changes that led to much less of a feeling of interaction with real, a
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by TFNA 6mo ago
The pen-pal phenomenon flourished in a time when letters were exceedingly cheap to send, even internationally. People in the Eastern Bloc seized on such programs for international contacts because sending letters was very accessible even to
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by TFNA 6mo ago
> The countryside is all bought up, every inch of grass owned and people itching to tell you to get the fuck off their property. You’re missing out if you think that. People come from all over the world to hike, bikepack, or van-dwell Am
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by TFNA 6mo ago
> Their "perception" is mistaken in this case. It’s their right to decide how they perceive being approached by a stranger. And most of society is going to empathize with them and their feeling of unsafety, not with the strange
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> they might think you're hitting on them (God forbid; nothing could be more evil than attraction) You can find legions of people, particularly women, who do not want to be hit on unless they already find the other person attractive
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> I assume it is a commentary on Brexit. The Brexit vote was a decade ago and though many mourn the outcome, it’s a bit late to be erecting artwork about it. References to being blinded by a flag now are probably about the particular far

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