neuracnu
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
It’s out there. Social networking sites with a vested interest in monopolizing your attention don’t use it. So I don’t use them.
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/775/chapter-94-a-squ...
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tru-rul? tee-ru-rul?
And the definitive online reference to the show, The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, is still there, unchanged since the mid 90s: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
If someone keeps starting fires on my property, I don't want you to donate to the local fireman's fund, I want you to stop giving that person matches.
The overall theme of what they were asking for was around harm reduction and seeking equal time (and money) for trans-affirming content. Demanding that any art that offends you be eliminated isn't something that a wise person would broadly argue for, and that argument wasn't being made here.
The person talking loudest about cancelling Dave Chapelle... is Dave Chapelle.
Zulip's focus on streams & discussion topics (over people-groups) is terrifically handy for tuning into large-scale group chatter, looking at things that are interesting to you and sharing conversations with others. Project/task management via Slack or any similar tools just seems bonkers to me.
> You could imagine an AI company suggesting back to creators that they need more created about topics they may not have enough content about. Say, for example, the carrying capacity of unladened swallows because they know their subscribers of a certain age and proclivity are always looking for answers about that topic. The very pruning algorithms the AI companies use today form a roadmap for what content is worth enough to not be pruned but paid for.