To all you inside the US: you might want to look up how assault rifles’ can be modified to be automatic.

I have a feeling that if Trump wins, someone will do the nazi salute thing again, but maybe insert “hail god!” somewhere into it, and this time it’ll be done by someone way more mainstream…

I found your ballot box:

that genie is not going back to the bottle

IDK, but the anti-GMO movement managed to mostly put back a genie into its bottle. We just need to fight harder.

I once did that, still was quite bad.

Humans can write it too, you know!

But then everything changed when the fire alarm community attacked.

Only the avatar can master all the alarm types, but when the wold needed him the most, he vanished. Years later he returned, and I believe he can finally save the world.

Centralized platforms are also prone to the same kind of attacks. Kiwifarms and especially its users’ offshoot Discord and Matrix chatrooms are good example for this. Hell, even 4chan was infamous for organizing troll campaigns, first just “4 teh lulz”, then people turned the site into their personal army.

Basically it is going the following way:

• Company gets AI to do stuff.
• Company fires its workforce.
• AI isn’t up to the task, and often disliked by people, see its unpopularity in the arts.
• Company has to rehire staff, first to try to salvage the AI’s output, then to just go back to the good old days of human creativity.

AI isn’t magic, no matter how much techbros try to humanize the technology because NeuRAl nEtWOrKs.

There’s a pretty good argument for that in a lot of other cases too, however those on the top doesn’t want it, or at least not in a sensible way, see the whole “UBI through stock exchange” and “Universal Basic Compute” fiasco.

Deal with them just like regular trolls. You shouldn’t be like the Muskrat cultists who think content moderation is useless and thus should be given up on. I understand, I suffered from activism burnout on the regular (one was right in the middle of an election campaign), but one should not give up easily.

Fediverse game devs and artists are much better.

Here’s the Mastodon account for my game engine is someone is interested: @[email protected]

I personally left Twitter, since it not only diminished my reach thanks to the implementation of Twitter Blue, but also was an increasingly toxic place (and it begin with being a toxic place in the first place, thanks to algorithms), which didn’t bring the best out of me.

While I agree, the issue is the very moment we become militant we get labeled as “terrorists”. The far-right just gets ignored.

If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it’s…

A swan! It claims to be a swan, therefore it is a swan! Swans are beautiful, therefore if you’re against swans you’re a bad person! You see ducks everywhere and accuse everyone being a duck! The word “duck” lost its meaning. In fact, we defeated the ducks in 1945, therefore any “ducks” we might have today are just edgy teens cosplaying as such.

EDIT: If you ask me, I think conservatives are just “good cops” to the fascists “bad cops” (this gave me an idea for a potential video essay).

In fact, Zionism is built upon the antisemitic myth of “Jews and non-Jews cannot live together”.

A lot of troll accounts are semi-automated. They run a script that detects certain keywords, and posts premade replies to them (nowadays said premade replies are being finetuned with generative AI to look less uniform), also a human is watching over them to ensure both correct operation and to overtake in case of emergency.

Source: My father’s ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend was (is) a paid online troll for Fidesz. They also had Discord (later Matrix if I recall) servers for organizing mass reports, downvotes, angry/haha react campaigns, often they also did some “private doxxing”.

That’s a single instance, they can be blocked and avoided. The FOSS community is way more resiliant to enshittification.

I prefer the Caesar Salad Dressing, does that mean I’m not only support authoritarianism, but also not a real anarchist?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240626173744/https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-network-ai-generated-biden-video/

Unpaywalled version

I personally don’t care if someone “steals” my code (Here’s my profile if you want to do so: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991 ), however it can mean some mixture of two things:

1. China is getting ready for war, which will mean the US will try its best to block technology, including open source projects.
2. China is planning to block GitHub due to it being able to host information the Chinese government might not like.

Of course it could mean totally unrelated stuff too (e.g. just your typical anti-China and/or anti-communist paranoia sells political points).

Put content that is illegal in China into your code, problem solved!