Fuck misogynistic twerps and assholes who give flight attendants and other kinds of service workers a hard time, but this story would not be getting signal boosted by rags like the Daily Mail and New York Post if it wasn’t a Muslim immigrant being accused

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism?wprov=sfla1

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it

Yeah, hearing the NYT decry hijacking of the public square is like hearing a Republican complain that Trump’s foreign policy is destabilizing the world

1. Pretty sure the margin in this vote was a little less than 90%
2. Saying “I believe other people have been brainwashed” without even making a gesture at evidence to support your own claim seems a bit ironic

If you’re not talking about voter suppression you’re doing conservatives’ work for them

e; “Oklahoma’s election laws inhibit voter participation, create more extreme candidates, experts say” (arc)

“Yes” is a death sentence too, it will just be a more drawn out process that enriches the people killing you

I mean, they can flood all of our feeds, but I’m pretty sure it’s had the worst box office performance of any Star Wars movie ever

Basically any track from the new Vince Staples album, but if I had to pick one - https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/track/the-running-man

Wouldn’t have happened if he was on Pixelfed instead

That is some clean zip tie work

I mean, the kind of person who will actually notice the coercive nature of the governing structures of other platforms and seek out a different space like this one here tend to be ornery. There are some bad politics sometimes to be sure but I think they’re organic.

They’re real people and honestly I think they make reasonably interesting music, but I could name a dozen bands/artists off the top of my head who are just as interesting and who didn’t blow up like they did

I mean, yes, but

Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both.

I don’t think I agree that the entire infrastructure has been captured, but I do think we’re at a new stage in the neverending conflict between observation and persuasion

You’re a cynical shit!

For real though, I’m probably an overly optimistic shit, but I think your second analogy is closer to the truth, but even still a bit short of it. You’re right about hidden crevices becoming havens, but life doesn’t just survive in those havens, it mutates and evolves. Inevitably it grows out of those havens, and usually it gets eaten by some predator at that point, but sometimes that can make a predator really sick, maybe even kill it. And the forest overall can start to change again. So really I don’t think the Internet is a forest as much as it’s one big organism, and we can be the viruses.

To torture another metaphor, give a million monkeys typewriters and I think it’s inevitable you’ll get monkey Woody Guthrie and there will be a monkey revolt, because creating any kind of art and thinking artistically rejects the premise of objective valuation that capitalist logic has as a necessary premise. Art does not have inherent value like a tool or other made objects do, and it continually resists and undermines its own abstracted commodification in its pursuit of novelty/originality/authenticity. Disney tries to copy paste a Star Wars plot and only succeeds in setting a pile of money on fire, but people will be talking about Sinners for years even though nobody knew they wanted a Jim Crow horror film until it was a thing.

The fact that throughout human history and all sorts of different social conditions the impulse to make silly useless valueless art rises up again and again tells me this social structure of capitalism is built on quicksand.

Nah, some dead cells and scar tissue in a few places maybe, but the immune system and cognitive capacities are still there I think

♫ Will the circlejerk be unbroken, by-and-by OP, by-and-by? There’s a better joke awaitin, in the replies, oh in the replies ♫

e; no for real tho, I love how each generation finds their own way to be dumb

I want to live in a world where Drake is irrelevant

Fair enough, this article might be more of what you’re looking for - https://poprant.indiatimes.com/trending/spotify-under-fire-as-streaming-platform-accused-of-inflating-drakes-streaming-numbers-over-bts-for-biggest-2026-song-debut-army-refuses-to-buy-the-apology/articleshow/131157267.html (arc)