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If the US wasn't a superpower, I'm pretty sure we'd all be in talks to discuss banning American media along with TikTok. The US culture war is going to slowly poison the rest of western society and before long every country is going to be descending into fascism while yelling about woke mind viruses or some other made up nonsense. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival

I just used a handheld supercomputer to contribute a tiny improvement to an openly available titanic compendium of human knowledge via a globe-spanning network while lying in my bed. I was never promised this future, and I am grateful to have been a part of it.

If I were a white man from South Africa who made his fortune thanks to an inherited emerald mine I would simply shut the hell up on the topic of race, but that’s just me https://bird.makeup/users/bestofdyingtwit/statuses/1629876721578303488

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu by Jupiter Rowland @jupiter_rowland@hub (Mastodon)

There are still way too many people who believe that Mastodon was created as a reaction to Musk's planned (or even actual) takeover of Twitter, and if they find out there's more to the Fediverse than Mastodon, everything else was created even later. Acutal reverse timeline, to whom it may concern: Musk bought Twitter in 2022. ActivityPub was acknowledged a standard in 2018. Mastodon is from 2016. Hubzilla is from 2012. Friendica is from 2010. Actually several months older than Diaspora*. As early as 2008, we already had something called StatusNet with a huge instance named identi.ca.

If Nancy Pelosi had given Rachel Maddow tens of thousands of hours of 1/6 footage, the right-wing ragegasm would have wrecked the nation already.

UPDATED! Editorial: It’s Time for a Complete Reset on How I Use Social Media by Ryan Schultz (ryanschultz.com)

Early this morning, I deleted my Reddit account. As many of you already know, I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2018, followed by moving away from Facebook-now-Meta’s virtual reality hardware completely (I now have a Valve Index at home and an HTC Vive Pro 2 headset at work, both using SteamVR). And last … Continue reading UPDATED! Editorial: It’s Time for a Complete Reset on How I Use Social Media

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same people banning books in school are flipping out about the Dahl estate editing its IP, but somehow I keep expecting just the tiniest scrap of shame

@angusm@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Or... We could fix our #healthcare system so that _no one_ is too poor to afford doctors, so that ability to pay doesn't prevent people from receiving quality healthcare. That CEO comment makes me sick.

This seems to be a textbook instance of @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's observation that every truly horrible technological “innovation” gets tested on poor people and captive subjects first before being gradually rolled out to everyone else. https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo-ai-medical-advice #ai #IGotYourDystopiaRightHereBuddy

“The bigger a dick a man is, the smaller a dick a man has.” - Broverbs 69:420

"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.

Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_? In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office? Sure, it’s the phones.

This “Twitter Blue” and “Meta Verified” shit is hilarious. These billionaires will squeeze you dry for platinum ultra mega VIP status that means nothing.

When "freethinking" dudes engage in "asking the difficult questions" why is it always about trans people existing and never say, how horrible and trashy straight men are? Start there bro.

Attached: 1 image I really didn't have "pay us but we'll still sell your data" on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are.

What’s downright scary about Meta Verified is that, just like Twitter Blue, Meta is charging for account verification and security. This isn’t a service. It’s a protection racket. Big Social wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to you 😰

I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

The most comically sad thing about this whole Twitter two-factor fiasco is they could have just come out and said they are retiring SMS-based auth for security reasons and it would have been a totally fine decision. Instead they tie it to a tiny incremental revenue opportunity and it once again outs them as total morons.

Watching Twitter fail into nothingness is like watching an old friend slowly lose their mental capacites. It hurts, this friend had some problems, but they helped spread the word about artists, independent journalists, mom and pop shops... Now they just sit in their recliner in the dark, wondering why their friends don't call anymore.

Twitter Blue by @Meta is not the pivot from the metaverse I had on my bingo card for 2023. https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid02979GyAHwTKsMd7ngCiHTRCHyeTCEHwYe9Evq3YV2ffvxUY7fKVb9TGyKEUFBeo3kl