Jonathan

Exactly. The algorithm is literally designed to stop people from thinking about what they actually care about. Of course that has caused deterioration of every aspect of human society to some degree.

Fuckin gross.

“What I can tell, however, is that hating on the tech itself distracts people from blaming those actually responsible, the humans doing the enshittification. The billionaires, dictators…”

^– SattaRIP^

That’s something I’ve been trying to convince people of that I converse with about LLMs and similar generative technology. I’ve met so many people that just throw a big blanket of hate right over the entire concept of the technology and I just find it so bizarre. Criticize the people and corporations using the tech irresponsibly! It’s like a mass redirection of what and who is really to blame. Which I think is partially because “AI” is something that sort of anthropomorphizes itself to a large portion of society and most people think the “personality within” the technology is responsible for the perceived misdeeds.

I figure when all is said and done and historians and researchers look back on this time, there will be a lot to learn about human behavior that we likely have little grasp of at the moment.

Thanks for the tip! I haven’t heard of that and I’ve been looking for something to keep track of this stuff as well.

As long as we keep trying!

I think about that one often. It’s too easy to dismiss people because their attitudes don’t line up with our personal ideals, but even those people have some internal struggle going on. We all do. Not that it ever justifies terrible behavior, but it does warrant consideration.

If more people on this planet would make these considerations we would all be so much better for it.

I’d like to see more posts like this honestly, I know reading these things aren’t for everyone, but having the actual document and (hopefully) the discussion of it is exactly how I’d like to be getting my news and information these days. I’m tired of our filtered world.

Some serious judicial indictment of the federal government to be found in there regarding the disregard of the constitution.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order."

Yeah.

Yup, I have to repeat Hanlon’s Razor daily, it’s sort of become a mantra.

Could this whole situation really be as simple as the largest scale “pump-and-dump” ever?

It is absolutely baffling that people don’t realize that people are the product. I’ve had some folks tell me that they understand and “don’t care” because the service is “free” or whatever, but then they get angry and freaked out when the platform knows exactly what they’re thinking, or at least seems to know.

There’s definitely a deficit in understanding and education on what corporate social media really does.

I don’t have any suggestions, but I’m curious what “design and development” flaws you see as major blockers with Lemmy?

I hope every subsequent rally has even more people!

Don’t let yourself fall for the lie that the party is eternal.

Exactly. More people need to let go of the idea that the people cannot affect massive change like this. Of course change will never happen if you don’t believe it’s possible.

Fix regression with saving states of user queries

Awesome, I’m really glad that’s finally fixed. That issue made my use of FreshRSS almost pointless.

It actually sounded like he was about to say he had actually been there, then realized he was about to lie about that to a guy who would immediately recognize and likely call him out for lying, so he then course corrected with a seriously lame response.

I mean, the “president” is the guy from The Apprentice. 🤮

I just wonder what type of people saw that and thought Zelenskyy was the unreasonable one? It’s rhetorical, I know what type of people think that… sadly.

I just can’t understand why Vance would interpret Zelenskyy as being disrespectful for politely, calmly, and carefully articulating his point of view on how diplomacy has failed him and his country. Vance seems like the type of person I would basically laugh at and walk away from if I were in a situation to have to hear him be “alpha and in-charge”.

It was like watching a scene from an episode of a reality TV show from the early 2000s.

I get the Oompa Loompa song stuck in my head fairly regularly. It usually only lasts for a few hours at most, but it’s frequent.