Blocking search engines, blocking the Internet Archive, signing $60M+ deals to Google and OpenAI to train AI on, plus the massive pitfall of centralization in the first place... It's time for us to...
The average user doesn’t know or care about anything. You could prove to them beyond all doubt that every reddit post or twitter tweet causes a puppy to get punched in the head, and they’d shrug and say “but this is where the funny memes are”.
I thought I was on crazy pills for a while, because I’d give someone evidence of like, some burgeoning authoritarian conspiracy and they’d just do the thing you mentioned
I then swapped topics to their thermostat before realizing there’s literal TV static upstairs in the squishware
The average user doesn’t know or care about anything. You could prove to them beyond all doubt that every reddit post or twitter tweet causes a puppy to get punched in the head, and they’d shrug and say “but this is where the funny memes are”.
Fucking thank you
I thought I was on crazy pills for a while, because I’d give someone evidence of like, some burgeoning authoritarian conspiracy and they’d just do the thing you mentioned
I then swapped topics to their thermostat before realizing there’s literal TV static upstairs in the squishware
It’s for the Chive crowd now.
Much better here.