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  • OK, I think the most useful thing I can say right now is that, while you are not wrong in the archetypes that caused the problem that let us here, there are a lot more contemporaneous nuances to the problem, and which complicate any possible solutions than there used to be. Put simply, wow, very used to be your problem. That was once black and white, it is now not simply shades of gray, but it is the shades of grey on multiple dimensions.

    So, it’s a similar problem, but one which affects many more people than anyone realized, previously, and then so many more complicated ways that we, even as an entire society, are struggling with trying to figure out exactly what they all mean, let alone how to deal with the problems that present themselves.

    And while that is quite its own thing, what truly differentiates the progressive from the regressive is the willingness to both acknowledge that this is happening, along with the willingness to acknowledge that it must be dealt with in the terms of a public service and good, rather than a private corporate need right for exploitation.

    Edit: even as we continue, discuss this, my point becomes clear: whenever intuitive degree this issue occurs, it is an extraordinarily nuanced and complicated situation which requires at least as nuanced and complicated solutions. Nothing is black-and-white. There is no one simple answer to anything.


  • I think there is tremendous probative value in tracking her Socio/ideological progress and evolution from about a year ago and proceeding over the next few years because… I hate to say it… But she seems to be the exact type of right wing idea log who is starting to question their beliefs and possibly evolve away from the extreme right.

    Well, we all may have the motivation to mock her, and I am not in anyway, suggesting that she should not be held accountable for the years of being a tremendous piece of shit, I think there is serious value in not only encouraging her sociological, awareness, progress, but in understanding how and why it’s happening, and seeing where it might go.


  • Yes, although, even with my decades of experience and media literacy, if I were made the chairman of the FTC today, I know that it would, unquestionably, take a decade or more for the FTC to modernize. And by that, I mean, it would take at least that long for the FTC to come to really understand how modern social media works, and how it, under the constitution, really should (and should not) be regulated.

    I fully support the FTC being a regulatory body that, to a constitutional degree, regulates communications on the Internet. But what does that mean? What are the limits of that? What is and is not constitutional? It’s gonna take at least a decade before we even have a conceptual framework for it, and then many decades after that of evolution, just as the medium, itself, evolves.

    For me, right now, the priority is to get this process started. Currently, a lot of of the FTC is not only struggling with its own existence, but how they can maintain their own current operations under Trump’s chainsaw slashing of federal workforce.


  • Going viral on social media. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok… YouTube, too. If you start getting a certain number of views per hour or views per day, they start paying you for it because of the ads that play during your videos.

    Making insane bullshit that gets a lot of clicks and views is an extremely profitable industry, especially if you’re some idiot who is otherwise unemployable. This is why all of those crazy AI slop videos are suddenly very popular, because if you post ones that go viral, they get a lot of affiliate rewards from all of the views and add impressions. Basically, that translates into cash.