Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short
honestly? lemme is teaching me that it’s probably time to get away from social media as a concept. I’m having a tough time with it though. It’s too automatic to pop open a new tab and type “l” or “r” or “f” or “t” and then just hit enter and get sucked into the outrage and/or validation loops
the internet is a machine that turns attention into currency, it does this at the same rate for negative and positive attention, and negative attention is a lot easier to get. you just burst onto a platform unbidden and say something that will piss people off. You get rewarded, the platform gets rewarded, everybody wins except the users who have a gross toxic time in the comments. Lemmy may not run ads, but it’s structured the same way that other platforms are and we already have a way of using those types of platforms built into our cultural knowledge, so Lemmy just turns into a loose confederation of reddits.
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wait, shit…
any time I ask fleetwood mac fans what makes them special, it’s always that they were really awful to one another, and the person telling me about it always gets really excited like I should be impressed that they were really awful to one another.
not my experience at all across 3 separate companies. Ime senior engineers are the highest level that still spends most of the day heads down most days, and that’s why I’m gonna stick it out at this level as long as I can.
Patch your spotify install to get free premium. If they’re gonna raise prices and lower what they pay musicians, there’s no valid reason not to.
Alexa, play John Mellencamp - Ain’t That America
are you american?
10 more whistleblowers
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
My condolences to their family in these trying times.
The CEO of Bumble’s parent company, Richard Pictograph, pushed for the feature
not sure which ones, but at least one charges you per day for the length of your sentence even if you’re let out early
NNNNNNOOOOOOOO THIS IS LITERALLY THE MATRIX
Citation needed.
I’ll take your silence after the citations were posted to be an admission that you were 100% wrong about this
The problem, from the government’s perspective, is that there’s no way to only see some of the fnords. If we teach people to recognize Chinese propaganda, they’ll start to recognize American propaganda too. Better to keep us stupid and then control who’s allowed to talk to us in the first place.
well done but also fuck you
I’m a dude, it’s just a clever name. It’ll do dudes, it’s just gonna give you huge tits. What you’re into is, of course, your business.
I guess it’s really in whether you use it with consent. I used one on my own picture just to see how it worked. It gave me huge tits but other than that was scarily accurate.
they aren’t even banning tiktok, at least they’re trying not to. What they’re trying to do is force a sale specifically to US government insiders. They’re seizing it. They want that sweet, sweet propaganda and data mining for themselves.
what did tiktok do to deserve being banned, and why is it okay for other companies to do that?
I went to valid social commentary town. They all knew you.