conicalscientist

dystopian surveillance ~~state~~

There I fixed it.

Go to reddit and stay there if you want to debase yourself with that obtuse nonsense. Otherwise grow up.

Bigotry exist alongside the working class in the 20th century. They made their choice quite clear. They'd rather a support a billionaire brutally oppressing the working class if a single minority gets hurt in the process.

I'm on my last account. Having to farm new accounts has become too cumbersome.

Whenever some deplorables get angry enough to get that account banned then I'm done. This is a less talked about rate of attrition on reddit.

I've had one banned for replying that a comment was "self gratifying". The militant far-right internet warriors report spam enough such that eventually some careless content mod will click the ban button.

Grim.

So this article went over everyone's head??? The surveillance apparatus is the that they were able to be identified immediately. You guys prove the authors point. It's so normalized it doesn't seem out of place. Not only that they were blasted around the world just as fast.

The post we're in right now showing their names and faces. The comment section we're in. This is part of the mass surveillance machine.

The witch hunt is self evident but I suppose I need to be blunt. It's because they're deemed worthy of your scorn. So you accept the dystopian surveillance state because in this instance it has served your purpose.

Crazy times.

Distractions. Diversions... The concentration camps got wiped off the news cycle. The protests got wiped off the news cycle.

Every cycle they have a few of their guys play the other side. Like a good cop bad cop routine. Works every time.

Picture a middle school cafeteria. That's close to the representation of who is in the comment sections. I'm sure of it. Maybe there's a teacher or two, the janitor, the person serving lunch. The adults generally have their mind elsewhere. The majority of users are going to be kids.

You can't ignore the technical factors. The reddit model is fundamentally a sort machine. The voting and temporal mechanism means reddit style platforms are always sorting for whatever the outcome ends up being. It's not the popular opinion nor the correct one. It's been proven time and again that the machine is easily gamed. Be early to engage with certain types of content and you're guaranteed to dominate the top of the sort.

What we have are not naive social networks. We've arrived at some kind of simulacra. In attempting to "digitize the world" we created a mirror of real life discussion. The mirror has tarnished over time. Distorted and by now taken on a form of itself.

It's a people problem alright. At times people seem to be playing some kind of social media game. Quite often especially on reddit people say things in ways you never hear people talk in real life. It's bizarre.

For example making up scenarios to be angry about. What is even that??? When they have the crowd on their side then everyone is in on the game too. A rational commenter can say, "That's not possible. This scenario is completely fabricated." But it's too late. Everyone is upset and communally partaking in the original commenters rumination.

This is a human problem but one that was arrived at by the technical design of social media nudging people into very weird forms of socialization. It's like people don't know how to be normal anymore.

Moderators not mod tools are very important.. That word moderator doesn't mean what it used to mean. We need to examine definition of moderation. It means to avoid extreme behaviors. Moderators used to provide community guidance. To be the adult in the room. This does not exist on social media. A pillar of old messageboards were people moderators. Someone who would step in when the users misbehave. When people start talking or behaving crazy. Sometimes it was better to just remove a thread all together. These kind of things are essential in solving the people problem.

There's no mod tool that does this. And don't nobody tell me we can throw AI at it. If social networks are to be human then it needs human guidance (aka human moderators). Can't just throw scripts at the problem.

I think it's more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it's related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.

I've been saying for a long time (since the 2010s tech boom). There's needs to be a new term the public lexicon termed "poptech" or popular technology. In the same vein has popsci.

The technology anyone knows anymore is oversimplified for general audiences. These days is almost always imparting wrong understanding.

The industry has been rife with grifters. If people catch on then the bottomless pit of funding will become very shallow.

I got a ban from there after being confronted by a /pol/ troll. One of the ones that attacks things they don't like as being Indian. They said something about them needing to be genocided. I called them a nazi. That was the reason for the ban.

So that's why I'm pretty sure the mods of subreddit are basically /pol/. I think that whole subreddit is a front for controlling narratives.

This distraction from the concentration camps.