UlyssesT [he/him] @ UlyssesT @hexbear.net

Posts

3

Comments

1,694

Joined

4 yr. ago

It's the most pro piracy argument that even the biggest normies can relate to.

Devout "Disney families," the kinds with the stickers on their SUVs, may still see that as "stealing the magic."

I doubt this will stand a court's scrutiny

Unless it reaches the Supreme Court and in yet another 6-3 decision the corpos get to loot and pillage more with even less accountability.

Centipede.

EDIT: Cover art was rad.

Some may call it prescriptivism, but I'll never accept "a few bad apples" as an excuse for horrible shit from bad people in an organization, not just because it's a gross misreading of the original meaning, but also that bad apples actually do chemically spoil the rest of the bunch as they rot.

You're assuming that downvotes only come from individual users with good-faith opinions there.

Relying upon an automated system to decide the "value of a conversation" is, and will continue to be, an open invitation to gamify, metagame, and manipulate such automated systems, just as it was on Reddit and elsewhere.

But everything at all times is the Reddit hivemind. Nothing can change or improve. Reddit is inevitable.

There's an old saying about how if everywhere smells like dogshit, it's best to check under one's shoe.

I think some people accuse others of being in a "hivemind" in a way that's like they brought the Reddit with them, in particular the presumed sense of superiority over the hivemind/sheeple/"NPCs"/whatever.

The "Reddit hivemind" is the human hivemind.

Reddit doesn't represent the entirety of humanity. It represents a specifically self-selecting group of people that tend to come from a combination of converging material conditions that allow them access to the site, and site retention for each user depends on whether that user is likely to opt into that particular group's increasingly-ossified norms that are provided superficial but effective incentives to continue doing so by the site's owners.

Social groups can and do change over time, and some are better or worse off in varying ways, and they are not all "Reddit hiveminds" unless you are lazily equivocating all human social structures as "hiveminds." What else is there? Some fantasy of rugged Randian individualism?

To say otherwise is useless fatalism, or at the least, false equivocation.

It may be impossible to prevent such community-wide erosion especially on an individual basis, but I think the best one can do to at least not contribute to that erosion is maintaining a sense of vigilance about the foundational idea at the heart of Reddit's site-wide rot: "I am smarter than the out-group, and anything I do within the in-group to increase my score affirms that I am endlessly clever and funny."

What does it mean‽

I might have before, but I'm across the country from Silicon Valley now and they are probably cooking in three-figure heat while their ZYBERTRUKKKS are falling apart from just existing. They still love the truck though!

It does, it does.

It's a bit like eating when you're actually physically hungry.

It feels very good.

That Mr. Burns "invincible" gag, except instead of diseases it's identity thieves crowding each other out.

When "science" is perceived as "the whims and promises of one particular very divorced manchild grifter" yeah Burgerland is fucked.

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't