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by bigger_inside 4y ago
What can be done is prevent them from becoming near-monopolies with a captured audience. Cory Doctorow calls this "enshittification" - his term. The basic idea is that in the beginning, new companies are all about their users, lu
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
"If a private DM conversation started to go in that direction [i.e, not positive, not supportive/b_i], someone would speak up to take the conversation to a public channel, and things returned to a more constructive tone." Thi
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
exactly. "whataboutism" is nothing more than "how dare you not let me force you to talk about/deride what -I- want to talk about/deride, and on top of it, you do it by pointing out what a blatant hypocrite I am in m
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
I enjoyed this comment. A judge in Colombia said he used chatGPT: https://forogpp.com/2023/02/03/a-judge-in-cartagena-colombia... own ranks? treacherous use? check? When automation came for factory workers, t
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
it does.
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
There's a sub-field in sociology that asks, HOW does something get called a conspiracy theory[1]. As a processual question, it's much more interesting than the deterministic "is this a conspiracy theory or not". Part of
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
There are literal mountains of sociological studies on how (state and corporate) media have been in service of the powers that be, for decades, and how exactly this works. With a mountain of examples. So, for sociologists, this feels like &
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
Violating sovereign airspace matters to the US only when it's done to the US. Because to the US, the US is the only sovereign country in the world. All the others can and should get routinely violated by US planes, if you believe US me
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
great text. It reminds me a little of Ancillary Justice: Human body turned into AI ancillary...
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
just in time for the global vegetable oil shortage? "don't worry, it was poison anyway"?
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
of course not. Like the "YOU picking straws kills the planet"-narrative, it was always neoliberal redirection to reframe structural problems as individual choice-problems, which can then be marketed to...
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
also, role-play RPGs have demonstrated quite well that people fall in love with well-scripted characters with otherwise quite mechanical interaction.
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
Truth is the first casualty of war, so, first of all: I'm very wary of any article that claims, unambiguously, to know what the "truth" is, especially in such close temporal proximity. And let's face it, NATO/US has
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
"The world" is not. The US and their allies are. The rest of the world is sitting this out at best. Go check some Indian, African, and South American coverage. It's very eye-opening.
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
I should have probably extended the final paragraph of my answer, rather than limiting it to the "public-facing" version. And I guess I invited this with the Taco Bell example. Culture isn't proprietary to a group, and these
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
I think this is a deep misunderstanding of cultural appropriation, but it is the misunderstanding that has gained traction in twitter circles. Cultural appropriation is a denunciation of exploitative oppression, not "anything where som
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
"Whataboutism" has long been used as a term for "how dare you not focus on the thing I'm outraged about by telling me that something I supported/condoned/was quiet about was pretty much the same thing. Traitor.
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
Exactly. Obvious new cold war strategy. News, of course, sets agendas by what it reports on and what it doesn't, and what space is attributed to it. And if the audience is barraged enough, they eat it up, as evidenced by the downvotes
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
There's no practical difference between the two. DRM doesn't effectively keep you from finding everything anyway, and much DRM is flimsy, easy-to-bypass pro forma DRM; because DRM -is- about controlling the experience, first and
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
This seems to be the public perception: only one side demands censorship. This isn't quite true and only shows you how well one side is at publicizing that they're being censored, which, ironically, means they're censored -le
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
that's how this always goes. Big narrative push, then a small little sheepish admission it was all BS years later, when the damage has long been done (or the power conflict benefit has been reaped; depending on your perspective.) Now l
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
I read that after the rewatch. It's a half-episode at best that quickly shoehorns a large conclusion onto it. Ever since that cominc, I've been looking for fanfictions instead....
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
also, (or: alternatively?) one that can't be/won't be blocked by the centralized services' spam filters. The biggest hurdle to running your own email server nowadays isn't the online time or the data volume or anyth
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
The point is about psychiatric colonization of making sense of things that need not be framed that way, and where that framing is not only stigmatizing, but also defends "legacy" ways of doing things against existing social power
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
Have we collectively forgotten that Ivan Goldberg coined this term as a joke? It was also an ironic commentary on the overreach of addiction metaphors to encompass everything that existing social structures, especially established structure
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
was about to comment the same thing. I teach future teachers, and I always say that_ everyone forgets their school math and chemistry lessons after cramming for the test. What sticks is learning how to survive in an unequal, dysfunctional s
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
I've left the "I could be blackmailed"-days behind me. There was a time when I was worried about what of me people could find online. Nowadays, it's "yes, that was me. Have fun with it."
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
Are we starting to realize that the playbook is "label everything not controlled by a transnational corporation and their hyperrestrictive Standards and Practices department 'right wing' until everything that isn't corpo
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
yes, there's a curve here. My early online days were in the time of GeoCities, and later CollegeClub (anyone remember that?); I had pretty significant online presences then, but they're all gone. The Archive doesn't have them
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by bigger_inside 5y ago
You're using the cryptography alone as a means to gauge trustworthiness there, which is fair, but I'd expand the categories for trustworthiness and rearrange their ranking, please: It's a non-transnational corporation actor.

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