"It's bad because of EU regulation" is the new "it's bad because it's woke".
gerikson
joined 1 year ago
L O and I cannot emphasize this enough, L
I mean, for the doctor it's pretty hard to tell a dude who is "GMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, Open Borders, & BBB" apart from any other entitled white guy whose read too much Facebook.
Mentioning that Usenet is free from advertising is rich seeing as that's where spam as a concept originated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel
People who remember Usenet fondly either only hung out in the good parts (heavily moderated technical newsgroups) or are perfectly fine with defining online discourse as being text-only and gated by access. I wrote a bit about this in a draft comment about Gemini in another forum:
What rubs me the wrong way about all these pseudo-retrospectives about how wonderful the Internet was before the Web is how much current users of the our global community are effectively erased. If you weren't student or faculty on a Western university (generally of a technical nature) you did not have Internet access. So you were young-ish, male, and wrote English. (This certainly describes, I entered a technical university in Sweden in 1992).
I know that the motivation for Gemini is expressly to get away from the current ad-tech-driven surveillance economy of the Internet, but like a lot of Internet people, there's a huge blind spot about how to do this.
Companies are not hoovering up tons of personal info with the help of JS-infected websites because JS exists, they're doing it because it's legal and easy and basically the only way to monetize content on the internet right now.
The solution isn't to cripple content so that JS cannot be used with it, the solution is to take a long hard look at the legal frameworks around privacy and how companies are allowed to use people's online behavior to make money. But (US) internet culture is conditioned to believe that this is literally impossible - that the political system in the US is so utterly broken that it's not feasible to work through it.
I guess the people making the "Boss Hogg" references were very very old liberals/hippies, because man that reference is dated, and his political opponents won't try to give him an epithet they'd consider positive.
Aside, this is funny https://xcancel.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1820873722653503602
Wow, that entire article is so interesting. To be honest, I'm slowly coming around to cheering for people with low incomes in developing countries destroying Facebook.
The replies are gloriously butthurt.
Quality sneer. Thank you for your effort.
This idiocy has been patiently submitted 3 times before but finally broke containment
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theseedsofscience.org
Dude posted to the EA forum as suggested and it went over like a lead balloon:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A6W5qm9gWyr3mikmS/the-ea-case-for-trump-2024
Realistically, most EAs will vote for the white male over the non-white female anyway, but it's on-brand for them to post a giant substack with reasons why.
I appreciate this deep cut.
Good one.