It isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.

RIP

Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.

I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.

If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.

This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.

You are bad at arguments.

No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

Try harder with formulating your arguments please.

:)

Ok so sounds like the problem isn’t actually social media then?

Rather it is a question of the choices we make about the architecture and design of social media.

Why are you here then?

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.

People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.

Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol

They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "

No, it is conservatives that despise rationality and level-headedness and it is precisely centrists that sat by and let this mode of thinking proliferate even as leftists were sounding the alarm.

Centrists were busy wringing their hands in nervousness about all the things conservatives told them about leftists and barely noticed when January 6th happened. This pattern can be demonstrated ad naseum across modern neoliberal societies.

You are mistaking a worship of the status quo with a sense of reasonableness and a desire for justice and equality.

And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.

They sold out day one.

As a form of protest create README txt files everywhere that say things like “I wish I was using linux” and “friends don’t let friends use windows”.

Does “no censorship” mean “no moderation”?

I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

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

In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]

Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.

It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.

Finance people are honestly so willfully stupid and blinded by their beliefs about economics, the writing has been on the wall for awhile now for AI.

The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

That will be a glorious day!