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nobody cares about your opinion because no one knows who you are

“coverage”

do you mean like on TV or something? no one watches that

“Wikipedia is a democracy”

i’m going to need a reliable source for that. meaning: it can only be true if a multi billion dollar corporation says that it’s true

maybe everyone in north korea or 18th century france is also low T. it’s probably a chemical imbalance

what is “nature”?

most of it is the result of wealth inequality. no one can afford to be cancelled. if you want a vision of the future watch chinese youtube iq.com where everything is hollow and empty. every show just becomes a tool of the state, all entertainment is an arm of the MCI. we’re heading there slowly. every single creator today faces a black box known as “the algorithm”, on tiktok, instagram reels and youtube shorts. those are the only platforms you can get any views today. vertical videos. the things we all collectively said Rotate your phone and film in landscape mode, about. your videos didn’t get popular? they must’ve just been bad, now watch this 15 year old girl twerk in spandex. francis ford Coppola never had to compete with girls in spandex, but today’s entertainment does.

yours is the most important post here. so i need the fediverse to escape the feds? sounds confusing. here's an example of a conversation that will never happen in the real world: "Why should I use the Fediverse?" "It's federated"

The types of names that become popular are things like Beats or Goop. Is there anything remarkable about Beats headphones? No there's literally nothing except the name because it makes the average braindead person think it must be bass-boosted or something, and this was enough to make what dumb rapper came up with that name, a billionaire. But apparently this is just too intelligent for any nerds to figure out, so the Fediverse will remain unused.

"By comparing how neurons act when the brain is in different states — such as when a subject has taken a drug versus when they haven’t — researchers can create more complete and useful models of how brain cells and behavior are linked."

this reads like it was written for toddlers. "Did you know that sometimes we test drugs in things called experiments?" Wow that's incredible.

also the study doesn't explain how ritalin "works" (is "attention" something that can be dull? or sharp?). it says

"We discovered that orally administered methylphenidate... increases spatially selective visual attention"

how you go from that to "Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention". come on guys

why don’t you tell us since you’re the one making the accusation. your comment is basically, “this angers me, tell me why”

“I don't see a reason to believe that somehow the extreme version nurture side of the argument has become dominant here”

watch “the news” or go on twitter

“ 1. Blank slate - All humans are of equal ability”

“ 1. This is kind of a founding principle of the country, so...”

yes those slave owning people really thought their slaves were the same as them, totally dude

“See @yishan’s thread on moderation”

you mean go on twitter? ew, no

it’s almost like this thread is nothing but people being pedantic and saying, there isn’t just one algorithm, it’s multiple algorithms. yes do you really think elon doesn’t know that? it’s almost like he’s just trying to get the point across in the most simple and basic way possible. pointing out that the recommendation algorithm isn’t just one algorithm isn’t profound at all. this entire conversation is mostly just people who want to argue and point out that they know something about how large tech companies work. congrats, why don’t you tell elon since you’re obviously so much smarter

“Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest.”

you sound completely braindead

“I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you?”

no, it isn’t

“Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.”

no, it won’t

"Musk's personality and actions turn off many of these people. It will much harder for Musk to get these people back than it would be for a publicly traded company."

yeah like when he smoked weed on the joe rogan podcast... comedians absolutely hate that. and tweeting about shibu coin or whatever... ELON YOU CAN'T JUST TWEET SILLY THINGS! THE COMEDIANS WILL HATE IT!

"Musk himself controls an army of shills who attack anyone who disagrees with him."

no he doesn't.

"Why would we expect him to work to stop shills site wide when he has put no effort into stopping his fans from exhibiting this same behavior?"

you sound like when the military industrial complex was trying to shut down bernie by inventing the term "Bernie bro" and then saying that Bernie is bad because he doesn't shut down his "toxic fanbase" on Twitter. such a pathetic argument.

“A marketplace of ideas only works if every single idea every person has is actively chosen based on analysis of alternatives.”

nah

“One might associate NY Times with the city New York, the bastion of a free speech and democractic superpower.”

if you say all lives matter in nyc you will be beaten to a bloody pulp

the term fascism is popular because it’s just an evil sounding word; the ash part sounds like you’re tearing paper; it’s scary. same reason why words like fuck or blob are popular, they are basically just sounds that onomatopoeize a vague idea. so fascism just means big scary mean evil government to 99% of people and the word fascism sounds like paper being ripped in half which is a violent sound.

“Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” and “master/slave” out of our vocabulary not only addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology,”

no it doesn’t. it does literally nothing except make a person feel like they did something when they did nothing, like posting a black square on instagram, so they can go right back to being a starbucks slurping propaganda watching cow.

“Shifts in our speech like swapping “manned” for “crewed” spaceflight are attempts to correct histories of erasing women and non-binary people from the industries where they work.”

yea I can’t wait for the sequel to Hidden Figures where we learn it wasn’t actually black women who were responsible for landing a man on the moon (should we say land a person on the moon?), it was actually nonbinary otherkin with purple hair who really made it happen. it will be called Extremely Hidden Figures

thanks for sharing

well that settles it then. thanks for clearing that up

compelling counter-argument

they prevent them from buying russian gas

"Independent polls show the US Govt has misaligned priorities to what the people want"

are you saying you think people in power care about the people they rule over?

"Let's start by making voting days holidays"

if voting could change anything they wouldn't allow you to do it. they literally shot JFK, the elected president, almost 60 years ago. the idea that everything is not completely fucked at this point, is so incredibly naiive.

“…since ~2015, Unity as a company have been more and more interested in developing shiny prototypes of new features that would look great in presentations, but it would take forever to finally get them to be production ready, and they would be rid with problems even then. It's as if Unity cared more about increasing numbers of newcomers than retain old-timers and studios which already invested heavily into the engine.”

this sounds like the way every other company operates. maximize profits above all else naturally resulting in the degradation of the product

unity always required that you use a mouse to manually drag and drop certain things in its GUI interface (prefabs), and this is intolerable to people who feel like their entire project should be storable in simple (text) files. otherwise what are you supposed to do, take screenshots of the state of the editor when everything is dragged and dropped into the right place? it’s so bizarre

“…tech giant Yandex has a handshake deal with government authorities to limit what news outlets the site will pull onto its homepage”

wow that sounds so incredibly different from the alternatives

we must condemn russias unprovoked genocide of neo nazis

“For those of us who don't watch either of them, does anyone have a few examples of hate and conspiracy theories they have pushed?”

saddam was involved in 911, iraq has wmds, russiagate, syrian gas attacks, bengazi was caused by a youtube video, theres an epidemic law abiding black people being regularly executed by white cops for no reason, russias invasion of ukraine was unprovoked, jan6 event where there are videos of cops opening the doors and allowing people into the capital was worse than 911, etc

“100% of crypto needs to be burned down to the ground. It needs to go because of the enormous harm it does to people and our larger society, for no gains at all.”

well you’ve convinced me