The problem is that the sexually charged furries have trouble understanding and respecting other’s boundaries. This is an even larger problem when you’re dealing with a community that tends to appeal to younger people. It doesn’t help that there have been several very public cases of well known furries being engaged in things so horrible I’m not even comfortable mentioning it here (hint: age and/or species and/or aliveness).
And we’re still waiting for a definite announcement that yes, humanity has finally produced room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors.
Exciting news for sure, but as usual it’s not quite there yet.
I think the focus should be on not having so many white privileged people in the real world
Why should you focus on tearing others down, especially when you’re simply looking at them as a statistic rather than individuals?
Archive.is is useful for getting past them.
Well, it’s true there are people who would call me unreasonable.
If it can be done, people will do it. If you think the FBI are unique in this, you’re very naive. We need to fundamentally rethink how our technology is designed if we ever hope to have any privacy again.
Or maybe people will eventually be fed up and we’ll start our own internet completely out of corporate control.
Or just return to the land, because it’s still right there. Would also help to do for climate change what corporations seem unwilling to do themselves.
The problem is what people are trying to do with the Internet. It was never going to be capable of replacing every facet of society the way these corporations seem to have envisioned things. To paraphrase Serial Experiments Lain: The wired should support the real world, not replace it.
Well they don’t care about problems until they affect their own families, so there’s that at least.
Not sure if it’s related to the upgrade, but I’m finding the context button doesn’t work for a lot of posts now. Instead it just links to that post specifically, and clicking “show context” also only links back to the same post.
Again I’d say they’re not as openly unethical because they pretend they’re not preying on people.
So bad actors are certainly not kept at bay
My biggest problem is that it actually makes things easier for bad actors when you set them in stone, because there’s more things that they know they can count on to happen a certain way.
Frankly, with open access to the entire world, there are a very large number of completely real conspiracies which you are connected too, through intelligence agencies, mafias and terrorist organizations. Failure to recognize this fact is a big problem with the way the Internet has been designed.
Bluntly, even before AI there was an ever present threat that anything you encountered online was written by someone with ulterior motives. Maybe AI is just making it easier for people to digest because they don’t want to distrust people. The solution that I see is to always be aware of what other reasons any particular media could be serving, and to maintain a clear picture in your own mind of what’s important to you, so no matter who wrote something for what reason, you won’t be personally misled.
Look up the term “mindshare” if you want to have some fun. They aren’t even shy about the idea that they’re literally attempting to buy and sell parts of your mind. Advertising is the most openly unethical legitimate industry that exists. I’d say social media is worse, but it’s intertwined and they aren’t honest about what they do.
“Everything is rosy in Xinjiang”
That’s not the extent of what they do. They absolutely push harmful ideas that people can act upon as well.
Weird. The complaints I’ve seen myself are about how they change the colour pallet for the weather maps compared to several years ago, so the same temperatures that used to be displayed in greens are now being displayed in reds.
Don’t talk about it! That’s how you summon them!