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This is what happens when they automate everything. Its basically impossible to find someone in Google to talk to even if you spot an issue with their products.

While I am not one of those people, some of the jobs in finance is basically high level mathematics and statistics.

Completely agreed. If anything this kind of accusation pushes people to the right as they got defensive.

Every significant organisation, government, big company probably had done something terrible at some point. The world is not black and white. Internet activism is "not helpful".

If people want to help the refugees, donate to organisations helping them. Or even better, volunteer to help them. Stop doing "purity tests" in the online world.

The first few paragraphs of the blog post explained the problem pretty well - lack of access to professional mental health care.

The other parts of the article...especially bringing in techno optimism, feels unnecessary.

Do we see young people using tiktok to self diagonise other kinds of medical issues? At least not at the scale of mental health. And that is likely because they have much better access to professional help.

As society, we really really need to put more resources into mental health. It was an overlooked issue for centuries.

Ah! So just like the financial industry which is abusing those like hell

The outsized influence of ad money in society is getting worse day by day

A few possible answers:

1. Signal is not big enough for spammers to spend resources on
2. People who bothered to use Signal are likely to be more privacy minded and therefore less likely to fall for scam

More spam messages then, ok...

This is a very convincing argument.

I guess this shows the difference between projects run by hired staff and a volunteer project who had to guard against bad actors.

Since I have only worked on one side it is easy to miss out on the reason those safeguards exist.

And btw I am publishing as primary source as well ! Maybe that is more suitable for me!

I am not sure if this is a good idea....

This will not end well. YouTube is very difficult to replace while Facebook has plenty of competitors.

Sounds like a nightmare..

TIL that Solomon can summon demon

That was more than 10 years ago. Maybe the changes are indeed meaningful and maybe I was too young at that time. And I honestly don't mind people making changes.

What made me quit was accidentally reading about wikipedia dramas and realized I was participating in a giant MMO in text. It was not a good feeling.

I do volunteer work to feel good. (Yes, really.) I still sometimes do volunteer work. Just not on wiki.

I hope it works out for them because the current Kotaku is just depressing

Oh I agree with you.

I will give some more info on what I saw at wikipedia, which arguable is common knowledge.

After I translated pages, I noticed people coming in to make small edits. I don't mind those, but is baffled that people seem to be making meaningless changes all the time. Not to mention I am pretty sure I am more knowledgeable on said subjects than those "editors".

I later realized that the number of edits and the number of edited pages count towards some arbitrary numbers which people can use to claim and move up the ladder of admin rights. It all made sense on why there are so many minimal edits performed by individuals. They are looking for low hanging fruit.

It soured my feelings toward wikipedia. I thought of it as a good volunteer project. Turns out some people play it as a numbers game. And they have enormous influence on the site.

Those people than use their power to suppress whatever they don't like to see on wikipedia, similar to what OP posted.

By the way, to understand how absurd wikipedia's system is, please take a look at the following news:

Why Emily St John Mandel asked for help getting divorced on Wikipedia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64033028

Ah...the good old wikipedia drama. I remember some said wikipedia is playing an MMO, and I completely agree.

I used to do translations for pages until I realize there is so much drama going on.

That would be like saying Patreon is monetizing video.

No. I mean ad-supported income that automatically comes with YouTube. Not to mention members subscription and Superchats which are also built in functions and represent significant part of content creators' income.

People will fall in love with AI because AI does not reject human. That doesn't mean AI will love them back or even understand what love means.

A "theory of action" is how we end up in disasters like the cultural revolution.

Real life is messy and cannot be simplified into one theory, at least not yet. Otherwise why do you think we have so many departments, so many professors and PhDs in so many subjects?