retrospectology
@retrospectology@lemmy.world
- Comment on Blender 4.2 is another crazy-big release 5 months ago:
Blender is amazing, the pace at which they improve it is really incredible. It’s one of those projects I’m happy to donate too, knowing what incredible value it offers.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 5 months ago:
I feel like these tech bros are the same kind of dullards in highschool who would argue with the english teacher about how studying symbolism, metaphors and subtext etc. was a waste of time. They don’t view things like art or creative writing as products of actual labor because they’re not strictly technical endeavours, they don’t have the capacity to understand where that stuff comes from so they develop this world view where they see it as just something frivolous that creative people casually produce almost without effort or study.
The way these people’s brains work is, ironically, so shallow and literal.
- Comment on TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen influence campaigns this year 6 months ago:
No, China has a long history of institutionalized censorship and attempts to hide reality from not just their own citizens, but from the world. They do so through direct suppression (such as arrests, police brutality, harassment, threatening family members of dissidents abroad) and through social media campaigns similar to those of Russian troll farms.
China is a totalitarian state that exerts direct control and ownership of all business in China, TikTok is no different. It is extremely naive (or dishonest) to deny that they do not use TikTok as a means of social engineering, the CCP’s eagerness to control information has never simply stropped at their borders:
aljazeera.com/…/us-says-chinas-global-information…
opensecrets.org/…/chinese-government-deploying-on…
about.fb.com/…/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-b…
- Comment on TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen influence campaigns this year 6 months ago:
theguardian.com/…/china-prison-camps-xinjiang-kaz…
businessdailymedia.com/…/19313-un-report-on-xinji…
apnews.com/…/china-crime-beijing-congress-6dc2b08…
apnews.com/…/iran-china-harassing-dissidents-unit…
telegraph.co.uk/…/china-forced-kazakhs-implement-…
wamu.org/…/leaked-document-trove-shows-a-chinese-…
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59456541
apnews.com/…/china-crime-beijing-congress-6dc2b08…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeOkYqN0y4#bottom-sheet
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NuFdeg4k9bw
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=08GDQCiU8uU
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=v7AYyUqrMuQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjTxdbMjR4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bX_hb1MnQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Shla50pRxA
The world has seen too much. Lies from the Chinese government simply do not work any longer.
- Comment on TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen influence campaigns this year 6 months ago:
Well…no, I know it’s because it’s a product from the largest totalitarian surveillance states on earth.
- Comment on TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen influence campaigns this year 6 months ago:
TikTok literally is an influence campaign for a far-right facist state.
- Comment on Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident 7 months ago:
The worst thing about the driveless car fad is that you can opt out of riding in them but none of us can opt of being run down by them.
I’m beginning to despise tech bros more and more every day.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 7 months ago:
I’ll take your word for it, you literally couldn’t pay me to watch Joe Rogan lol.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 7 months ago:
Yes, people might be forgiven for believing he’s different from Musk because they had differences about Twitter and because Twitter was not as bad when he owned it, but he’s still a tech cultist like Musk, still has all the wealthy 0.1%er Silicon Valley weirdness and kook beliefs.
He’s just not in the news as much.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 7 months ago:
No, there is a point beyond which the use of data becomes unethical and outside what normal people would actually consider
If you post on a forum, and I collect your data, create a unique writing style profile for you and then match it against other data I scrape or buy from across the web, perhaps your address you used to buy something that was also released to third-party advertisers because you didn’t read some three mile long EULA and I’m able to find all those details, then I use that data and go murder you I don’t then get to argue in court “Well, they posted all that info online, so they were consenting to me using their data in this circuitous, unintuitive way. They wanted me to commit this crime against them.”
That’s not consent. That’s a sociopaths conception of consent.
I get the tech cult has made it really difficult for people to understand these concepts, but it is not ethical to pretend when people post on a social media page with the purpose of having discussion and debate that they also intend for their data to be used in other these other tangential ways.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 7 months ago:
It’s amazing to me that so many people have accepted a completely warped conception of consent and continue to argue that it’s ok.