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> the wildest part was always that this originally aired almost 2 full years before Snowden

Yeah, but keep in mind there was growing awareness of mass surveillance in the years leading up to the Snowden revelations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Similar to how the show 24 manufactured consent for torture, imperialism, etc post-9/11, part of me wonders how much of a role POI played in doing the same for mass surveillance.

A flamboyant billionaire hoarding all communications and digital events while claiming to be the good guy. Sure sounds familiar.

Thank fuck

I had no idea this was a thing, but I shouldn't be surprised.

Maybe some people like these alterations, but others of us would prefer to have the option of the original work.

I'm glad I was able to find this show unaltered on internet archive before it was presumably yanked.

> I've given up correcting people.

I have a working theory that the prevalence of typos has been increasing in recent years, and it's on purpose:

* Humans trying to distinguish themselves from bots might add intentional typos to convey this

* AI bots, armed with the above knowledge, will also use this trick to seem more human

Of course, many typos are genuine, but this is increasingly not the case imo.

Already posted 4 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391456

I wonder if anybody wrote about this problem, like, a century and a half ago.

I flipped through my Forrest Mims Engineer's Mini-Notebooks so many times the pages almost fell out.

Radioshack catalog archive in case anybody missed it:

https://radioshackcatalogs.com/index.htm

Turns out 640K of RAM was enough for anybody after all.

> The 'both sides are the same'

Nowhere in my comments or link does it say that. You're attempting a strawman and failing.

The pandemic is an excellent example of both parties prioritizing capital interests over human interests:

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...

Lots of blood on their hands.

> someone else deciding to stop trying because it's 'rigged.'

Nobody here is suggesting this.

Voters aren't given meaningful choices. It's just subjective "lesser of two evils" in a race to the bottom (except for elites, who win no matter which fake party is in power).

Democracy is illusory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniparty

> I’ve often wondered if The Office inadvertently trained people to be bad managers.

Maybe it exacerbated it, but The Office was mostly a documentary of preexisting behavior.

This is a classic breakdown:

https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...

Agreed. The linked article touches on that fwiw.

Reddit feels like it's been on the way out since the API fiasco. Lots of users jumped ship and have been replaced with engagement bots.

Bluesky is small and lame.

Mastodon/Lemmy are fragmented fiefdoms.

X/Twitter is full of dark patterns, bots, and invasive of privacy.

Basically everything sucks.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

> What I've never understood is the weird dichotomy of preventive and reactive governance in the minds of US citizens.

When the underlying economic model of CONSUMPTION = GOOD is viewed as a religion or universal law of nature, it's actually not surprising that people are irrational about this.

Sounds like you need to re-read the article.

Sounds like you need to re-read the article.

NPR has been capital-endorsed garbage for a long time now. NYT is no better.

The Sanders campaigns just made it painfully obvious to anybody paying attention.

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Anything to prop up the illusion of democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniparty

So did Dems

Already posted 3 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032

> Make it a priority in primaries.

lol what primaries?

No.

The original point is that it's exactly what an LLM would do to appear human.

No. I'm in the US and this is a recent phenomenon.

The occasional typo has always existed and is fine. The new trend is a noticeable increase in occurrences.

To me it seems more productive to acknowledge the shortcomings of triangulating whatever few modern media outlets are indeed worthwhile so that a widespread appetite for something better might pave the way for more of those to exist.

> Still, if we could upend at least some of the underlying commercial interest or even the need to rely on advertising, it could be something.

This is some good brainstorming on the matter:

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

I tend to think the latest models know that "how do I make XYZ more human?" would include making typos. Seems pretty basic.