I’m hoping Arc survives all this?

I know they want to focus, but no one’s going to want their future SoCs if the GPU part sucks or is nonexistent. Heck, it’s important for servers, eventually.

Battlemage is good!

TBH that sucks for the kid.

It was selectively given to institutions and “major” celebrities before that.

Selling them dilutes any meaning of “verified” because any joe can just pay for extra engagement. It’s a perverse incentive, as the people most interest in grabbing attention buy it and get amplified.

It really has little to do with Musk.

the whole concept is stupid.

+1

Being that algorithmic just makes any Twitter-like design too easy to abuse.

Again, Lemmy (and Reddit) is far from perfect, but fundamentally, grouping posts and feeds by niche is way better. It incentivizes little communities that are concerned about their own health, while users have zero control over that shouting into the Twitter maw.

Not sure where you’re going with that, but it’s a perverse incentive, just like the engagement algorithm.

Elon is a problem because he can literally force himself into everyone’s feeds, but also because he always posts polarizing/enraging things these days.

Healthy social media design/UI is all about incentivizing good, healthy communities and posts. Lemmy is not perfect, but simply not designing for engagement/profit because Lemmy is “self hosted” instead of commercial is massive.

onlyfans is successful because you can pay for personalized actions and one can build something appearing like a relationship with the porn star. Before one would just passively watch them.

It’s still so one-way though.

I guess what’s remarkable is the collective unawareness of how artificial those relationships are. I get it, I know IRL loneliness and went down the engagement rabbit hole too.

But still, it’s remarkable. I still see articles from professional journalists, all the time, wondering what’s happening to relationships or democracy or whatever then end their post with something akin to a “like and subscribe!” and a busy Twitter profile.

It’s great for pushing enraging content though. I feel like the content itself has gravely affected the collective psyche, and so have influencer endorsements (which companies pay big bucks for), even if the explicit ads have not.

Look at her social media posting history. Look at her published book:

BRAVE Books and Ashley St. Clair partnered to write “Elephants Are Not Birds,” a Christian, Conservative children’s book that tackles the topic of gender identity. In the book, children will learn that boys are not girls, and Elephants Are Not Birds.

I retract/regret what I said… I didn’t mean to victim blame. This sucks for her and she doesn’t deserve one bit of it, nor does her abuser deserve any sympathy. She deserves empathy.

But she also appears to have made a living peddling (IMO) hate far and wide. I am struggling to express/process how I feel about that… it’s a tragic irony, I guess? And frustration at that whole ecosystem she was in (which Musk is at the very tippy top of).

Watch this video, ignore the clickbait sounding title:

https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

It completely changed my view on that.

Basically, without high birth rates, countries are totally screwed. Immigration (which skews young, from high birth rate countries), has softened that issue for the US, hence you don’t hear about it as much here. One can wave their hands and say “elder care and the economy will be automated in the future,” but that’s wishful thinking if you ask me.

Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical. Honestly we’re ridiculously inefficient now; there’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. And we can use much higher technology to address that.

Yeah, at the very least she needs security and lawyers. 20K is little enough to endanger her life.

…On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

It’s really not funny TBH, it’s all tied to his views on eugenics (or whatever euphemism is used) and frankly horrific visions of the future he shares with a few lower profile billionaires.

This is a known mindset among Silicon Valley uber wealthy.

TF, this guy is still getting millions of views on TikTok and Twitter.

Can we just burn engagement-driven social media? Please?

Yeah, it skips the religious purism (and the sometimes very real attempt at pondering deep morality), and goes straight to modern attention hacking mixed with timeless demagoguery and conspiratorial urges.

That’s what I’m getting at. I empathize more with old school religious communities acting this way… to some extent. Some transcripts in the article are not very flattering.

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Fair point. I’m a millennial, how about that :P

Yes, very true. I’ve kinda seen that in other states.

Mennonites skewed anti vax before it was trendy, like a long time ago. Old religious vaccine exemptions were basically for them, IIRC.

Like, I remember hearing about these folks when I was in school in Texas.

What I’m getting at is that they’re not quite the same as MAGA-zone vaccine skepticism. There’s some overlap, but they’re more old school and broad than that, with a more general technology-hesitant slant, while MAGA skepticism seems more driven by social media and influencers.

Heh, well, what happens to Republicans who speak out against the idea?

Speaking as someone in central texas, living not that far from the outbreak… It’s bad, but not that big a deal.

Most everyone outside super-religious communes has the vaccine, whether they like it or not. Basically everyone who’s died or been infected so far was unvaccinated. See figure 4:

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-2025

The message is for the next pandemic we aren’t vaccinated for. The meme that vaccines are a ‘choice’ with tradeoffs one should carefully consider (instead of something you’d be an idiot not to get) are going to obliterate us next time. That message is coming from the top, not from where this funding was cut.