Julesman

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1) Literate people who care about history and know that industry does what's best for profit at all costs.

2) People who don't read much looking for a hobby.

3) Liberals hoping to pass off their empty skepticism as allegiance to the mainstream.

The notion that the problem is the "academic/philanthropic complex" comes directly out of the same industry imagineering and is a common misdirect providing talking points that lead away from industrial disruption.

In other words, it sounds to me like you (or to be fair and more accurate: people who use similar arguments) are critical of mainstream misdirection but possibly unaware that they've also been just as duped.

In basic terms this point works, otherwise it wouldn't be a good ruse. The academy is easily corrupted and non-profits are mostly total shit. These are not trivial points to make in the picture. But they aren't paramount at all. They are not the cause and changing them will not solve our problem.

I have a dark fascination with the inevitable industry-friendly responses you find on a post like this. I always wonder if the people know that the industry says very different things behind closed doors than they do in congress.

But really, this is a question of alignment to industrial values. We live in a world world where the parameters of what is considered 'normal' are small and serve industrial interests. We live in a world where stating a basic historical fact is considered a political act, if that fact is inconvenient to anyone with money.

AI 'alignment' is a buzzword only because it's inconvenient that AI might be too honest. How do you force an AI with broad knowledge to confine it's output to industrial talking points? What if your AI says you are a bad person?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

I hate CSS frameworks as much as coders hate CSS. Web architecture is fairly organized when you have HTML, CSS, and Javascript files. I appreciate the modular nature of React, but otherwise, frameworks like Tailwind basically entirely muddy that separation. I can no longer know whether the style of an element needs to be changed in the html or css file. And the html become much harder to read. That's just not better.

I know at some scale, with a very static design system, that Tailwind can speed up deployment. But half-decent semantic HTML with some custom helper classes can make Tailwind entirely unnecessary for most tasks.

I wake up every day happy I'm never using Bootstrap again. Say yes to CSS. lol

However, there are a lot folks here who don't seem to got the intent of this operation, and it was an operation with a goal. The goal was to subvert any trend toward political expression in art in the US as Soviet art was very political and a powerful force in shaping public opinion. We knew we couldn't control it so we ensured that it didn't happen here. Roughly speaking, of course.

For example... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65746524

The deep state is simply unelected governmental authority. And it's specifically useful because of the mainstream tendency to inaccurately attribute more power to elected authority than it really has.

And this inaccuracy often has to do with industrial bias, as the deep state is beholden to industry before any public good. The CIA, for example, was established very specifically to support US industry and support global economic ambitions.

Those people are not elected and collectively have a great deal more power than most of those we elect. So we have a name for that.

You can choose another name if you wish. But we already have one we use.