tonguez

Are you capable of talking without regurgitating propaganda buzzwords like megaphone?

“Musk will make a mockery of twitter”

how do you make a mockery of something whose only purpose is to manufacture consent for war profiteering?

"Who does this benefit besides the board?"

the people who run the US/world who depend on censorship to maintain their power

"Mental health is hard to study."

is it? what is mental health?

"I'm also very skeptical of people who think widespread use of psychedelics can make society better. Lots of people used LSD in the 60s and 70s and as far as I can tell they didn't usher in a new age of love, peace, and tolerance."

what was the control in this experiment?

there's nothing progressive about corporate censorship; twitter is just a tool to manufacture consent for war profiteering

"When moderation goes away, platforms become rife with racism, spam, scams and less than desirable actors."

so... Twitter

"They probably own them for a lot of reasons"

"I doubt Elon is going to be personally moderating every Tweet"

why even post this?

">Gen Z is also more diverse and broadly anti-American (or “anti-imperialist”) An irony, considering that Russian imperialism is the one that actually performs land grabs and ethnic cleansing without even trying to cover it up."

you should learn about this thing called the 2003 invasion of Iraq, then the Vietnam war, etc.

“ See: the sad story of Moot, who ran one of the most popular social websites in the world and ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it.”

when you say absolutely nothing you mean money. but millions of people have fond memories of what his site used to be. nobody would say that about facebook or twitter.

That’s because they only hire staff who have the opinions that the people who own the organization want them to have. There’s nothing left-leaning about corporate censorship, which Twitter embodies. It’s all neoconservative war propaganda.

“Compression is a component of general intelligence.”

if you say so

“A few years ago I was very sceptical of machine learning ever leading to general intelligence. I've since changed my mind.”

thanks for sharing

“…both [human brains and artificial neural networks] are able to compress data into a _useful_ representation.”

thanks for pointing this out

“ Weird, why would mass of people try to escape reality instead of watching more documentaries and getting inspired to change the world for better? This truly is a conundrum.”

it’s more that this shit gets shoved down people’s throats intentionally because it’s a way to prevent people from organizing to improve their lives and stop being exploited. if all anyone has ever seen is capeshit, they’re going to be less mentally capable to deal with the complexity of real life. same reason why china bans blood in video games: so you don’t have a language to even express what is happening to you, so you can’t even start to do anything about it. think about why the movie idiocracy got shat on. they didn’t market the movie bc they wanted it to fail bc they don’t want people to see it bc they don’t want them to be self aware bc they want them to be stupid because it’s easier to control people that way. it’s the same reason why the NPC meme was banned from twitter: because it’s too accurate and too problematic for the people who know all to well how accurate it is and whose full time job is manipulating braindead npc-like morons that use twitter.

“Can you really reach a larger audience by getting on a background jazz playlist than taking home the most coveted Grammy? I hate to share the bad news, my friends, but the world has changed.”

wow what an amazing insight. some dead awards show for geriatrics where disney child actors always win musician of the year or whatever. it’s truly shocking that nobody cares about that

“I've totally lost track of the iPhone product line. If you asked me what the difference between the iPhone 11/12/13 is I wouldn't be able to tell you.”

thanks for sharing!

no one who is struggling to survive gives a shit. maybe if wealth were distributed more evenly you could get more people on board to care about this.

sounds like something a rich person would say

he died of vomiting blood from alcoholism, just like alan watts

“It's either this or one of its competitors rises to take them on at some point and we get a bifurcated society where specific companies cater to specific politics. That may be unavoidable anyways.”

one can dream. as of now all corporations follow the same ideology of neoconservative imperialism because they are all owned by the same people (blackrock, etc)

“It’s just a rebranding of the portion of our lives that are contained within the digital realm.”

none of my life is “contained” within shitbook

help build an alternative that isn’t designed solely around accomplishing neoconservative objectives like the dissemination and amplification war propaganda, and general subversion of democracy by inciting racial division, removal of democratically elected leaders, etc

thanks for sharing

"I have heard people say "Men push women out of engineering" but in my experience it's been the opposite--it's been men trying to get women interested in engineering."

Of course it's not true. If you majored in CS at a decent university probably 1 or 2 out of 100 students were girls, and in the "labs" the TAs spend the ENTIRE TIME talking to the girls/helping the girls. "Men push women out of engineering" is just a performative statement that means nothing. You will find this in any field where men generally are better at something, like chess. There are plenty of people who whine that "women are pushed out" of chess and so on, and if you ask people to explain that, they can't. It's just pathetic and of course predictable that the same people who can't understand the logical reasons why the demographics of certain groups are the what they are, happen to be bad at activities that require the ability to perform logical operations in their head, like chess, or engineering, etc. All they can do is whine about it emotionally which is the same reason why they can't do engineering or play chess.

"Perhaps society shouldn’t make women choose between a career and a family"

Perhaps society shouldn't make men choose between a career and jerking off all day

“Now let's take a step back. I had effectively turned $6k into $400k as a 23 year-old. That is absolutely, positively, ridiculous.”

self-congratulatory and boring

“There is merit to the idea of the 'paradox of intolerance.'”

no there isn’t

“I don’t think you should be able to tweet racist messages for example.”

we live in a world where saying “all lives matter” makes you adolf hitler 2.0. crime statistics are banned on twitter. if you say “its ok to be white” you will be called a nazi, and fired from your job. THAT’S racism.

“ > people always show that it has never really been about freedom (emphasis mine) Which people? They always act this way? It was never about freedom, for anyone? Who could possibly say this authoritatively?”

thanks for asking the tough questions

dems had control of all 3 branches of gov and didn’t do shit

absolutely shocking and mindblowing that inhaling smoke is bad

“As Zeno said, books are a way to have conversations with the dead. You can learn from people who came before you. They can also inspire and reassure you.”

wtf am i reading?