dystopian surveillance state

There I fixed it.

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

The binary nature of social media. It made everyone forget the whole region is quagmire.

Bigotry exist alongside the working class in the 20th century. They made their choice quite clear. They’d rather a billionaire brutally oppress 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.

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 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.

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.

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 time people seem to be playing the 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 at the original commenters rumination.

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

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’ve been wondering if basic prank tactics can work like fucking with their mask.

Pull the mask up over the eyes. Snip the mall ninja utility belt. Pants them.

Or toss their hat real quick. Pull the mask up and zip tie it closed above their head. They will be forced to pull it off their head all together.

Such things would require outnumbering each of them by multiples of course.