words mean what we make them mean. use your imagination.

every human technology is “super-natural” because it’s not natural

All the economy is a big circle if you draw the circle big enough.

Actually scratch that. There is an economy that is not just one big circle jerk, such as the development of new technologies or the terraforming of deserts into fertile land; as neither of these things ends the way it started; it brought lasting change, and that is true progress.

Actually did you see my presentation that i made about this recently?

The point is to convince the americans to invest in new technologies.

To all those who say that human spaceflight is impossible:

what’s “uplifting” depends a lot on what you want to see in the world …

but i’d say that we live in very exceptional times in history, so what’s currently happening is not the norm and will sooner or later pass…

it’s real because nobody could make up so much bullshit

reddit and all commercial social media make more money when they have more users, so they attract a lot of users with ragebait and clickbait.

we don’t profit if we have more users, so we don’t have an incentive to send clickbait and ragebait, and the absence of these toxins alone will probably drive up the quality a bit.

it’s back to the old journalistic practices of verifying sources with a second source.

that has as a necessary pre-requirement that people are actually interested enough in an objective truth that they’re willing to pay some journalist to do the research.

is that really the case anymore? I can see it being useful in the 20th century when people were interested in new economic developments and stuff

I’m saying it again: We can’t know what’s true anymore. Whenever something happens more than a few miles away, chances are high that you know nobody who was involved there physically, so there’s no reliable way of knowing what actually happened anymore.

I think we can only make reasonable choices about things that are close enough to ourselves; not about very far-away entities.

There is absolutely a possibility that a role model democracy like the US used to be in the 20th century develops into a dictatorship, as is currently happening under trump.

it can happen in europe as well, and chat control will absolutely, 100% be used against the people.

you forgot the oligarchs trying to make it the new Volksempfänger

until it doesn’t anymore …

explanation: 10% it looks fake so you think you can recognize it easily meanwhile 90% avoids detection that way.

I … tend to write in a way that gets mistaken for AI …

yeah me too. it’s because i use features such as:

• bulletpoints
• structured writing (i.e. having an actual structure in the text)

people shift professions. if white collar work becomes unprofitable for the workers, people will seek out different professions, which creates a supply of labor power in those professions.

where would i send them to?

I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.

Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.

But right now i’m worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as “profit” while the studio gets almost nothing.

Well the advantage of having the subtitles be a text overlay over the video is that the subtitles can be separated from the video; like, you can switch them off and on and change languages (which i sometimes do as i speak multiple languages and am interested in how they translated it) without having to store multiple GB-sized video files - one for each language - for the same episode.

Netflix makes dope original productions in my experience; I’ve watched many of their shows and enjoyed them.

It’s not wrong to give money to studios that produce good content. What’s important IMO is that the money really goes to the studios, and not to some big banks trying to leech off it.

I’m looking for an ethical anime streaming service rn, and i’d be willing to pay for it (like, $10/month). Any options at all?

Like, “ethical” means that the money is used to keep the studio running that is producing the anime; not that the money goes to some big banks to profit off anime.

Funnily enough, i was considering just today whether i should re-open my old Crunchyroll account. But i guess i won’t do it now after all. IIRC there’s been a streak of bad press about crunchyroll; like, this today isn’t the only issue.

social media platforms seem so similar to each other, because they all implement the same mathematical constructs.

there’s users, and there’s topics, as the fundamental way to organize your platform.

• if you focus on users, you end up with something like Xitter or Mastodon where you can follow user accounts.
• if you follow topics, you either end up with hashtags, or you end up with communities like on lemmy/reddit which focus on one topic each.

There’s not a lot of fundamental ways i see that you could change that. If you can think of one, name it.

You could always augment your platform with nice tools, such as image upload, image conversion, link preview, AI tools, and such, but it’s just addons around the same basic structure.