So easy to say, but then there’s going to be some “smart” people going there believing Reddit is more “intelligent” than Facebook, because the supposedly “intelligent” young people (actually upper-middle class scared of the poor) hate the rest of my country for being “ignorant” and “degenerate”.

Also known as profiling.

Where I am and due to its greater practicality, nursing is more popular as a college course than compsci.

I once started as compsci, but instead got a job fixing PCs. Also self-learned basic carpentry and plumbing. Looking at raising livestock in the near future.

They’ve been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as “Christian” behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.

Now – based on their basic blueprint – they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.

BTW, any collapse or devolution of the United States and the Western world would come off as a wonderful realization for Putin, Dugin, Kyrill, and their cronies. That Jesus himself in his actual Middle Eastern appearance and acts of progressivism would be considered an enemy by fundies expecting a “whitened” Jesus.

Night is the only “me” time I can get.

Regardless, Prager is full of shit.

How do investors keep falling for this shit.

The ROI and the supposed savings from getting rid of the human side of technical support but also efforts of human creatives.

What an obnoxious excuse, there are far worse problems children have to face besides bad parenting.

I used to love Reddit.

I was never invested in it, but then Facebook was overrun by right-wing nutcases so forcing me to take refuge.

Even before I got banned for criticizing spez’ idols, already the country sub where I once hanged around was getting filled with doomers, supposedly smart young people but being assholes to anyone lower than them.

Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?

The major subreddits – the ones frequently visible on r/all – are filled with bots now powered by the same AI which the techbros are throwing money into, and then use all that information to simulate online human behavior and content. Already Xitter is also plagued by this AI morass, many of them with Arabic or Indian names.

Matter of time before they start reinstating previously banned political subreddits, and let the fucking Kluxers march in.

It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.

Of course that’s what sells – being engaged as much as playing an MMORPG.

That given enough karma, the account can then be sold to anyone with money.

progressive

Was, before Schwartz died. That the more politicized popular subreddits (as opposed to niche hobby subs) are specifically targeted for being filled with right-leaning content.

The triumph of disinformation.

Oh, definitely as Jobs practically created a personality cult, putting Woz literally behind the curtains.

When ordinary people talk about creative geniuses who make innovative devices that change the course of history, most cases they’ll talk about Jobs, believing he came up with ideas for most if not all the gadgets that makes Apple a known fashion tech brand… despite Woz being responsible for designing and building the first Apple desktop.

funded by putin through his oligarch

Yeah, Dugin is getting his wish of the West self-destructing, however slowly.

A platform for people in developing countries, however. In some cases it supplants most if not all of the functions of what used to be several programs for Internet access and communication.

I mentioned Facebook because I’m seeing some people trying to share information how to grift with AI.

At this stage he is but a goddamn puppet for at least a couple dozen individuals and groups who want him to enact their own agendas through him.

Surrounded by enablers and cronies who want their individual agendas to happen.

Makes me angry that removing the ability for self-sufficiency – even just walking alone for errands – only furthers dystopia.

Why most American GenXers thump their chests about being turn-key kids… yet they should be opposing such overreach.

He is, just that he made ultraconservative statements in his own website, but deleted them later and disabled the site from being archived.

Not just a thief, the bastard thinks he’s better than the entirety of Bethesda.