[ Gadit // גדית ]
[Has possibly begun dancing a wild weave between aspects. Maybe.]
[I claim neither consistent context nor clarity.]
[she / her / hers]
Look I also strongly oppose AI-slop, the movement it represents, the intense amount of infrastructural leverage being siphoned to run downstream of it, and the intense financial and political pressure being wielded to push it,
but hey no instinctive aesthetic revulsion is still not something to ground ethics in, nor is it acceptable to use it as a primary tool for discovering or driving moral arguments.
Pick a different tool.
RE: https://chaos.social/@jaseg/116759505023424934
I like this, but I would like to further argue that the two terms serve different ends:
"Digital sovereignty" takes power from the corps, gives it to the State.
"Digital Autonomy" gives power to *you*.
The thing Youtubers do where they realize that some other Youtuber or video-producing media org's style has been informing their presentation and happens to just be The Correct Way of presenting it,
and embrace that and cite it by capping off the emotional climax of the video or segment with the particular signature editing flourishes of their source--
--absolutely rips.
SummoningSalt's speedrun tune,
"*pause breath*. Foreshadowing is a literary device---" (overused yeah but it became a meme because it got legit usage),
rendering your "I'm doing Jon Bois -style statistical humanities" graphs in a 3D environment,
... etc.
I just watched someone cap off a 40-minute Smash Bros Melee video by iconic-flourish -checking SBNation's Rewinder videos.
10/10, best part of Youtube as a creative culture, vibrant and thriving.
(But also they're elsewhere theologically redefining "Jews" into a universal category post-Jesus, including in response to discussions of antisemitism. And I think they think that one of the core bad things about Elon Musk is that he, they claim, worships a Spinozan Deity? I don't think Spinoza deserves blame for cybertrucks existing.)
(They're opposed to Zionism tho, and supporting Palestinians is a good thing, at least; I guess I just kinda have to hope that that doesn't interact in any way with any of the rest of their theology and worldview at all,)
(But. like. in a REALLY Protestant way as far as I can tell.)
Separately I think this person /might/ be rather antisemitic? Like I can say I'm 100% sure but,? I haven't seen (((echo)))s used unironically in YEARS so it's possible there's been semantic drift in the half-decade-plus that it's been cooking in whatever weird corner thia guy's brain is at, so MAYBE there's some not-specifically-Jewish (((them))) that they're marking the leaders of the Free-Software community as, as an explanation of why they didn't seen any of them speak out on the California OS age-tracking-feature rule?
I skimmed this "Early Christian Heresies" Wikipedia article and I don't think this one's listed? It might be a new/rare one.
Unless maybe it fits within Ebionites.
"This is PEAK self-parody. Come look at this." have you considered and ruled out the possibilities that it is (a) simply just parody
or (b) intentional engagement-bait.
("But even if this is fake the fact that I could so easily see this being real--" that sounds like a you issue. In particular it sounds like you are letting yourself reason about reality in a textbook circle,
which is an issue.)
"Miss Movie Masochist"