WatDabney

@WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a thing I hadn’t really thought about before, but as I was writing that, I was thinking how many times I’d written similar things in the past - about heavy metal music, comic books, dungeons and dragons, violent video games…

  And it struck me that that was too consistent to be coincidental - that there had to be some basic failure at work there.

  And thinking sbout it more - it’s at least broadly the same dynamic as the endless loop of class- and race-based bigotry. Systems are established by which members of a particular class or race (or ethnic group or gender or sexual persuasion or…) are disadvantaged - poorer nutrition, less stable housing, poorer education, fewer opportunities, etc. - then point to the ignorance, frustration and antisocial tendencies that triggers as nominal evidence of their inherent inferiority, by which they’re rightly denied equal treatment.

  I’m willing to bet that there’s a significant body of work out there on this topic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reasonably certain that it would be much more accurate to say that people who are prone to depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm are more likely to use the dark web.

  Broadly, this isn’t the first time that it’s struck me that pedantic moralizing often relies on reversing cause and effect…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The broligarchs must be positively giddy at the prospect of a generation of Americans who are entirely unable to even form a coherent thought.

  Why muck about with all the complications of trying to force people into the peasant role of neo-feudalism when you can just destroy public education and gatekeep knowledge and create a populace too dull-witted to envision anything else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget copyright strikes, a retro gaming YouTuber faces possible jail time for reviewing gaming handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember the good ol’ days, when it was only the urban housing market that was dominated by rent-seeking parasites?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to be sitting in their plush offices at the top of buildings full of busy workers to keep up the pretense that they deserve their obscene pay. Sitting in a plush office at the top of an empty building just shines a spotlight on how useless they actually are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So even the little tiny bit of work they have to do to justify their obscene salaries is too much for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do angry, hateful, vicious people like MTG convince themselves they’re Christian?

  I don’t think it’s a pose - she appears to be entirely sincere about her claim to Christianity.

  And I understand the basic mechanics of it - they pick and choose which parts of the Bible to highlight and which to ignore, and how to self-servingly interpret the ones they do pick.

  But in a more fundamental sense, I still don’t understand how they do it. Are they really entirely devoid of self-awareness or conscience? How is that even possible? Or do they have at least some rudimentary self-awareness and conscience, but they just ignore it? How is that even possible?