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by krapp 5mo ago
geminispace already exists, though. Just go there.
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by krapp 5mo ago
>The only reason for keeping far away would be to have time to react to missile launches and attempt to intercept them. But that's not different than what ships do at sea. Yes, that's why you would do it in space, too. The only
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by krapp 5mo ago
No it shows people are being tricked into blaming the wrong thing for the damage.
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by krapp 5mo ago
I think Facebook is still that for most people. I think the narrative of widespread social addiction and "mind control" through social media is intentionally overstated to serve a political agenda. These problems to exist, social
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Where does it stop? Slavery would be fine if only it were legal? I mean that is the logical conclusion of a lot of business efficiency thinking. Yes. Numerous corporations use outsourced slave labor in places where it is legal, or where
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by krapp 5mo ago
There have been plenty. Surely you aren't arguing that social media has never done so. Arguably social media has been one of the most catalyzing political forces in human history. And bearing in mind that "political action"
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by krapp 5mo ago
You didn't mention any of those. You mentioned "real human connection," yet the connections here are no more or less "real" than on facebook and tiktok. "I've never had a social media account on any platfo
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by krapp 5mo ago
Hacker News would be the worst possible place to discuss any such efforts. This is enemy territory as far as any progressive, leftist or pro-labor movement is concerned.
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by krapp 5mo ago
I mean, you're commenting in text format on a web forum to strangers using pseudonyms right now. Why is that valid but the use of social media isn't?
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by krapp 5mo ago
It can and does. The power of social media to spread ideas and accelerate political action is why fascists took it over and co-opted it. That's why we're fed the narrative that social media is evil and needs to be regulated or ban
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by krapp 5mo ago
It's been cancelled for a while. For some reason Americans just refuse to admit it because they believe tyranny is existentially impossible in their country because the Second Amendment keeps it at bay the way the rock in my garden kee
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Nearly all UFO claims went away once high quality cameras in smartphones became ubiquitous. If only, but no. Thanks to equally ubiquitous video and image editing and now AI and the profit potential of social media there are more such cl
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by krapp 5mo ago
You know there are tens of thousands of instances yet you chose to use language that implied that you were speaking about "Mastodon" as a whole, and then you chose to make judgements about fediverse users as a whole, based on a de
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by krapp 5mo ago
I'm literally only staying for two reasons. 1) People I know personally follow me and if I delete my account my username will be farmed by bots and I don't want those people harassed and scammed. 2) Following Aya Nishitani.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Mastodon isn't a single web platform like Reddit. The phrase "among the top-ranking posts on Mastodon" is meaningless. There is no "the top" of Mastodon.
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by krapp 5mo ago
That isn't what I meant, but I know that's the only way it can be interpreted. The culture here is so deeply self-sabotaging because it's so deeply afraid to be human. It really gets depressing sometimes. Good day.
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Bezos, Musk, Trump, they are all changing the world for the worse. But they are changing it. "progress" in this case doesn't imply change for the better, only the will to power. It's obviously wrong in the sense that
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Otherwise it quickly becomes politics all day everyday. No, it doesn't. This is one of Hacker News' weird phobias but it doesn't reflect reality. I know the mods believe it too so there's no point in debating it but
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by krapp 5mo ago
If you could, you would just lose vouching privileges.
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone. You got old. The thing you loved became work. That's when most things stop being fun. Don't know what to tell you. Maybe collect stamps or something.
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by krapp 5mo ago
We don't do that here.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Not to worry. I've been assured many, many times that automation only ever creates more, better and higher paying jobs than it removes, and that no one but talentless bottom-feeding hacks are losing jobs to AI anyway, not the elite crè
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by krapp 6mo ago
Where Presidential politics is concerned, I think it's less a case of misunderstanding probabilities and more the success of party propaganda. Every victory is a landslide with a resounding mandate from the populace, every defeat a cru
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by krapp 6mo ago
Things can die and be born. The usage of those terms in relation to non-living entities and absent a description of biological progeny and senescence has been commonplace in English for centuries. For instance, the "birth" of a ne
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by krapp 6mo ago
>No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. QAnon happened during Trump's first term. The support
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by krapp 6mo ago
>I just hope there is an attempt to recover from this after 2029 and not just a shrug Unfortunately this isn't something we can just vote our way out of. The people who support the destruction of America's science and research
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by krapp 6mo ago
I recently added a links page to my site for links that use the human.json protocol[0,1] to denote actual human created (non-AI) content, and added metadata parsing that adds title, description and fediverse link where available[2,3]. I&#x2
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by krapp 6mo ago
If you strip social media down to its essential parts it's simply a multimedia communications and networking paradigm. Nothing ontologically good or evil about it. You aren't listing problems intrinsic to social media per se, so m
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by krapp 6mo ago
This is what I get for trying to have a serious conversation here. Congratulations on the endorphin hit. You really zinged me. I need to find where the grownups hang out.
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by krapp 6mo ago
You see, you're doing the thing. Every bit of hyperbole I mentioned is practically quoted verbatim from some thread or another here, it is what people believe, and you can't even bring yourself to approach me in good faith because

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