yeah and it does harm. Any technology amputated a part of us. The point is deciding if it’s worth the cost.
It’s hand-written and it’s a famous blog about techno-magic. Also it’s very explicitly against new age, that’s the whole point of the article.
Look, I’m Italian, I live in Germany and the resurgence of nazi-fascism in these two countries is not due exclusively to the fact they didn’t purge nazi and fascist supporters back then, but it’s still a very big factor. They never went away, they just went into hide, learn to disguise themselves and came back as soon as the conditions were good. People who were raised fascist in their families and inherited their money, values and goals. There’s a line connecting them and it’s clear now we would all be better off if after the liberation, the Americans or the Soviets went on to purge entirely those structures of power, instead of trying to integrate them in a democratic society.
I don’t think the State of Judea can be ever reintegrated into Israel, let alone in a democracy. They are past any chance for rehabilitation, being in a self-destructive genocidal frenzy that even Netanyahu probably won’t be able to stop.
because a media outlet goes where there are viewers. They write to be read, so there’s little benefit in going on platforms where there’s nobody.
They have fascists in power and they still care about language. Also missing the whole context since they clearly didn’t read the article.
well, it’s full of nazi furries
yes. That’s how Mussolini and Hitler got into power.
What’s happening is wildly inconstitutional and violent in nature. It’s just not military violence for a military coup. Not all coups involve the military, that, if anything, here might be a stabilizing force.
After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.
You’re optimistic. Yarvinists are openly advocating for dictatorship.
USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don’t start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that’s the final part.
Well, debatable. Purging the secret services first is always a great idea when you’re doing a coup.
Not everybody likes information density. Different targets, different styles.
The coup Is mostly through digital means at the moment. They are seizing IT systems and firing sysadmins who do not comply. It’s totally about technology, because this is the first coup done in a fully-digitalized global power and it looks nothing like the ones we have seen recently.
You cannot escape social norms. The act of rejecting them doesn’t free you from them. You will be judged for rejecting them and others will adapt to it, either by rejecting them too and creating a new social norm, or shunning you and attaching a certain rejection to a specific social signal. There’s nothing artificial on it. The logic you describe is very oblivious to how social norms and social actors work.
Also here we are talking about webcams not really as technological artifacts, but as social tools. Obviously it’s not a technical requirement to be presentable, but a social requirement, that’s implicit in the discussion.
It could also be an inside job. Anti-genocide resistance within Microsoft is quite strong and active.
“Virtual backgrounds as the norm” is an interesting practice, pretty much like school uniforms erasing difference in class by dressing everybody the same.
virtual and blurred backgrounds still signal a lot. Not only they let the viewer know that your environment is not nice, but they also become aware you’re somewhat ashamed of it, enough to be willing to hide it.
That quote about reality-based community is also made up.
P38, Emilio Paranoico, 66 CL, Cosmo
If the protocol doesn’t give incentives for an even distribution of users, it’s not going to be solved by blaming individual instances or individual users.
There’s no evidence to support what you’re talking about. Mastodon, Misskey and Lemmy monthly active users flatlined a long ago. They are not growing and there’s no evidence they will resume to grow in these conditions.
A multi-protocol network might not be unlikely, but it will still be very asymetric, with AP as a secondary actor. Power shapes technology, not the other way around.
It looks like cringe amateur stuff from the inside too, don’t worry