BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
You are allowed one such question per caster level.
WHAT IS THIS MORTAL, A GAME OF 20 QUESTIONS?!
Max level power gamer: "yes"
My guess on the condoms is that girls doing it out of desperation rather than as a trendy lifestyle thing are the ones getting fucked by Poxy Steve for $40, and take appropriate precautions. The lifestylers doing it for fun (paid threesomes, say, to shove in the partner thing) can be more selective.
It's been a long time since I took stats, is there a word for that? Using an ejection seat is positively correlated with dying in a plane crash because only men flying riskier aircraft in dangerous situations use ejection seats, etc. If everyone's risks are perfectly calibrated, you'll get no correlation at all between precautions taken and outcome, only correlation between overall risk factors and precautions taken.
Think I've said this before, but I don't know that "not dying" was realistically on any character's agenda. Rebecca was always going to die in a stupid fight with someone much tougher; her progress in the show was in being killed by the strongest guy in the setting rather than some bouncer she got mad and pulled a gun on.
Maine was always going to go psycho and die destroying everything and everyone he cared about. Kiwi was always going to die in some stupid triple-cross backstabbing she thought she was smart enough to pull off, etc.
The whole story was about dying a little harder and becoming a legend doing it.
I'm definitely chuckling at the idea of this guy building open source spy gadgets to catch terrorists in some East Anglia police station when he should have been handling a important missing sheep case.
(Or maybe the region's changed since I was a kid and it's a hotbed of murderous extremists now. I always knew that kebab shop was bad news)
Iirc the system was stolen by that one German guy from a gnu actually-free-speech project. So they're in a "squatting in master's house while trying to tear it down with his tools" situation.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
That was his story in the middle. I'd be curious to (have somebody else) search his drawers though, to see if there's evidence of trophy-taking.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Given the prevalence of female birth control (every sexually active girl I knew in middle school was already on it), condoms mostly serve to avoid STDs, and the messaging seems to have changed to focus on that
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
If satori and the gab guys are brave enough to do it, these dudes have no excuse when all their content is hyper regime-aligned lol
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
I didn't know that, thanks. That must have legitimately taken a lot of courage, and explains why he has so many dedicated mastodon-and-mask-in-bio reply trolls to every tweet he makes now. That struck me as an odd hatebase for him to have picked up.
Judging by the latest veritas leaks re. passing out butt plugs in LGBT class, I think that's just called "school" now.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
They did foreshadow a "terror from the deep 2" sequel pretty hard with the ending cut scene, didn't they? But maybe they realized an asset swap cash-in like the first TFTD wasn't an option, and had to get creative.
Did they ever get all those buggy frozen mechanics like the disabled "dwarven economy" working, or were they just dropped in favor of more content? (I hear there's sewers now?)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Not having to use a mouse to click through endless menus always made it easier on my hands than some sim games, tbh.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Alternatively, not bad optics if the goal is to demonstrate that so-called "respectability politics" is no longer on the table, and that the mainstream media will simply refuse to mention the story. In that case it's just a power move.
(other thread by jarjar here. Is it possible to merge stuff on this site?)
It does look like I was much too harsh on the psych, my apologies. In my defense, the way he talked about extreme escalation made his claim sound more like "you will find a trophy collection of women's fingers in his attic" than "he will steal a bag... Like, again." And a lot of the supporting details he ropes into his posts are dubious, like the Japanese blush emoji pedo spiral symbol link.
That said, his basic explanation of "it's a fetish: expect irrational fetishtic behavior patterns" is obviously sound and something to be mindful of in all these cases.
(And boy am I going to eat crow if they find a finger collection next. Cross some extras for me Sam)
Derp, thanks for the catch. The sentence was too much for my 90 IQ brain.
Why is TSMC building a factory in the US and diminishing the island's 'Silicon Shield'?
That raises my suspicion that the deal is for the US to evacuate the Taiwanese tech and managerial class to run operations in the US, while leaving the ruins of the island to the Chinese. Cooperating in moving their national industry to the US is how they (unlike the Vietnamese) end up running more than a laundromat when they immigrate.
Welllll, one of my arguments is that liberals have often managed and used these types, or redirected their rage towards powerless victims.
I can't remember who said in 2020 ( probably David Hines) that liberals consider their children joining a leftist gang to loot and burn a helot neighborhood a charming traditional rite of passage--something to enjoy and get out of their system before they grow up and become university administrators, just like they did in the 60s. They do prevent the radicals from taking power, but only out of paternal instinct and self-interest.
But the key is that their censoriousness worked on twitter despite them having less direct power, which is why people like Silver didn't criticize them until they were safely gone. Something about twitter (and reddit) allowed radicals to organize to hurt people without spiraling into self-destructive turbo-insanity the way they are on mastodon.
I wrote about the likelihood of the Move To Mastodon resulting in a purity spiral of banning-everyone-who-won't-ban-the-target-of-the-week, and it seems to have already started. There's a reasonable summary from Reason here: Mastodon's Content-Moderation Growing Pains
The TL;DR is that Mike Pesca defended an article about puberty blockers by that notorious right wing rag, the New York Times, on a cool-kids-invite-only journalist mastodon server. This is an unforgivable sin in the mastodon universe, and earned calls to purge him as an "anti-trans ghoul" by other journalists.
Reason glosses over the most interesting part to me, which is the massive pressure imposed on on the journal.host moderators to ban Pesca but not Molloy under threat of their entire instance being purged from the mastodon universe (which was done anyway even after they surrendered). Some of that can be seen here. "A line has been crossed and if there aren't consequences it will be a wedge the TERFs use to gain entry into the broader platform." etc. etc. Money quote from one of their own journalist admins: “Banning someone for posting a link to an NYT article sets a precedent that we really need to work through.”
Another incident just happened to Raspberry Pi:
Raspberry Pi posted on Dec 8, at about 10pm NZT, about a new hire, Toby, who was previously a police officer who had specialised in building outdoor surveilliance equipment using Raspberry Pis...
Seeing this behaviour from a well-loved brand like Raspberry Pi was taken as a betrayal of the predominately leftist attitude of many instances. Due to the very different power dynamics of the Fediverse, it took less than two hours from the initial post and initial harmful replies before the official Raspberry Pi instance started being defederated
Now that Raspberry Pi has hit the #fediblock, recovery becomes considerable more difficult. Not only does Raspberry Pi need to withdraw their statements and issue unequivocal apologies, they must also apologise directly to the admins who defederated them, and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to change.
On the Fediverse there is no singular entity such as Twitter, Inc. that financially benefits from the presence of a brand, or benefits from the extra engagement and associated ad sales tha controversy will generate.
Brands seeking to join the Fediverse will need to invest not just in a social media manager, but compentent and long-time administration for the instance that is aware of the political dynamics of the Fediverse, in order to ensure that they are able to stay on the fediverse. (holy shit they reinvented political officers pretty quick, although given that they're all communists is it really "reinventing"?)
(Another instance, Mastodon.scot, appears to have been mass-defederated because they allowed a police officer to join. Or maybe they all insisted on typing in scottish accents and everyone thought it was gibberish, who knows)
I think there's a lot to be learned here about how organizations like twitter and reddit act as central authorities to prevent, abet, or moderate and sustain purity spirals, allowing incredibly "diverse" groups to avoid the infighting seen above so they can focus on torturing a common victim, while keeping the moderate wing sufficiently in fear of the radicals to make them obedient. Nate Silver is now mocking the "hall monitors" moving to Mastodon, showing a lot more brave defiance than when they were on the same platform holding the threat of a direct line to twitter's backchannel over his head.
I'm starting to wonder how much the great awokening of 2020 depended on central authorities endorsing (or simply failing to punish) radicals, sending normies like Nate the message that the Overton window is shifting and he'd better go along with it. Struggle sessions occurred in women's groups and fringe fandoms long before that, but even in those cases the knives never came out until trusted authorities gave the signal that the radicals would not be stopped, and that anyone who tried to defend themselves would face consequences. (Anyone who remembers "racefail" in science fiction would be in a good position to either support or rebut this, because it seems like the Ur woke purity spiral incident that I wasn't there to see).
In exchange for obedience and conversion, normies got some degree of protection as long as they weren't ever the last first to stop clapping at the latest public executions. And the radicals had administrative power they were too unstable to use taken away from them in exchange for being given the right to do anything they wanted to their victims with the authority's blessing. The administrators got a helpful volunteer stasi who would literally do it for free (particularly the entire reddit powermod ecosystem that emerged out of the SRS policing/mass reporting clique).
Musk buying twitter and all the various bits and pieces of private conversations we see echoed in the dissident press makes me think they're thinking along similar lines; that a strong central authority can also choose to check radical purity spirals and direct them into a cycle of self-destructive internal purges in much the same way that the Governor of Massachusetts ended the Salem witch trials.
It's encouraging to think that there may be a way to stop normies from sleepwalking into increasingly radical leftism, treating it as the new normal with no memory or recognition of their previous beliefs. Maybe all it takes is a central authority that aligns people's interests in a non-destructive way and refuses to grant cover to perpetrators.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Afraid I don't know that part, I'm not a BAPista or whatever. But it probably involves roids, a Conan sword, and apparently raw eggs now for some reason.
"The red flags regarding Brinton were overwhelming and obvious to all who cared to see them" is such an incredible line. Just the sheer audacity of instantly flipping from defense and deflection to tossing him under the bus without even blinking.
The interesting part is that there are still zero other articles about this entire incident outside of the right wing press, to the point that wikipedia was trying to delete all mention of it as "no reliable sources verify." So there's a system for absorbing and synthesizing a response to "enemy news" without officially acknowledging it exists.
https://twitter.com/17cshyteposter/status/1161883143927767040 This is a decent intro to it. It's a reference to matriarchal stone age communal societies that may or may not be a product of communist anthropologists's fever dreams.
The modern is “nothing new”: it is the return of a very ancient subjection and brokenness under new branding, promoted by new concepts and justifications. If you want to see our future look to Europe as it existed before 1600 BC, or much of the world as it was until recently and still is…. the communal life of the longhouse with its young men dominated and broken by the old and sclerotic, by the matriarchs
Or 0HP's
Thaler called his ("Nudging") approach by the oxymoron "libertarian paternalism", but it's more motherly than fatherly.
The main social role of women is policing adherence to group norms, and the more they are empowered, the more monocultural and stifling social life becomes. A panopticon made of lightning will wrap us like a warm blanket, and already has. McLuhan said electric media makes the world a global village, because instant communication brings us closer together.
The global village turns out to be a global longhouse
Weaving the character's story through the whole thing was brilliant. Got seriously attached to her after the second interlude.
I keep wondering how I never once heard of Cyberpunk as a kid. We only had the local knockoff with cyber elves and wizards.
What are the odds he's making a noble sacrifice play to draw all the heat away from his partners?
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