Sorry, fucking WHAT? For anyone who was paying attention, I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER memes were our refuge from the message boards, Fark threads and forums where we were watching right-wingers royally fuck the US and losing our goddamn minds because it was pretty fucking clear what path the world was on and HEY TURNS OUT WE WERE RIGHT.
We weren’t monitoring the real-time collapse of late-stage capitalism- we were watching the very worst humans set the stage for it (and being called America-hating alarmists for pointing it out).
Neo-nazis and random assortment fascists took to the Internet very early on as a matter of a concerted strategy to inflate their ranks. Now look where we are.
Yeah, as an old internet head Nazis have always been everywhere. There's a reason moderation has been one of the first things implemented since the usenet implosion.
We're talking about the same medium that spawned the unholy walled garden of AOL right? Internet has always been a case study of late stage capitalism. Way back when the Military industrial complex was involved. There's a reason cyberpunk is an old genre.
The broadband period, after AOL and the dot com crash, was probably the peak.
We had car videos, google was pretty good at finding things and its ads were separated. Geocities and webrings were dying, but we had high design gallery sites that were human curated and had some great stuff.
Flash was still a fun thing, and not just a banner ad delivery tool.
Forums and spam bots and email scams were a thing, but had always been there and were fairly easy to avoid/ignore. Still annoying though.
The implication that capitalism is collapsing implies something else is replacing it
If a building collapses, it collapses. There is no "implication" anything will be built to replace it. Mankind won't end, but human civilization as we know it most certainly will, and pretty soon. There will be pockets of people everywhere who know how to survive. But hypermaterialism will not, and cannot, survive, as a matter of the same mathematical calculations the whole system is based on.
It's still there and you need to find your appropriate ratio. For me it's 1 for 3: to deconstruct the effect of one minute of fascist dystopia I need 3 minutes of cute animal content.
So did any communism NOT collapse yet? Late stage communism seems to have killed Russia and all the third world countries that tried it, just look at Somalia. China functionally dropped communism (idk if they're better off for it but they did). Meanwhile free market countries are still around. Communism.mostly just seems to produce emigration and an above-average occurrence of famine.
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oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 249d
Cat and bunny videos are half of my YouTube recommendations right now and it’s beautiful
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 248d
I see no flaws to this
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 247d
If the ad blockers work anyway.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 248d
cats/dogs, bunnies. and then it became the DODO type videos, where apparently some of them are doing thirst trap , or suspected of abuse, neglect.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 248d
May I recommend adding a slow loris or two to the mix? I don't think you'll regret it.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 248d
Sorry, fucking WHAT? For anyone who was paying attention, I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER memes were our refuge from the message boards, Fark threads and forums where we were watching right-wingers royally fuck the US and losing our goddamn minds because it was pretty fucking clear what path the world was on and HEY TURNS OUT WE WERE RIGHT.
We weren’t monitoring the real-time collapse of late-stage capitalism- we were watching the very worst humans set the stage for it (and being called America-hating alarmists for pointing it out).
tomiant@piefed.social · 7 pts · 248d
I remember.
Neo-nazis and random assortment fascists took to the Internet very early on as a matter of a concerted strategy to inflate their ranks. Now look where we are.
cogman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 248d
Yeah, as an old internet head Nazis have always been everywhere. There's a reason moderation has been one of the first things implemented since the usenet implosion.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 248d
RIP Keyboard Cat
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 248d
I can hear the music
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 248d
But I can see Ron Livingston.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d
Wait, the picture doesn’t have music‽
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 248d
We're talking about the same medium that spawned the unholy walled garden of AOL right? Internet has always been a case study of late stage capitalism. Way back when the Military industrial complex was involved. There's a reason cyberpunk is an old genre.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 247d
The broadband period, after AOL and the dot com crash, was probably the peak.
We had car videos, google was pretty good at finding things and its ads were separated. Geocities and webrings were dying, but we had high design gallery sites that were human curated and had some great stuff.
Flash was still a fun thing, and not just a banner ad delivery tool.
Forums and spam bots and email scams were a thing, but had always been there and were fairly easy to avoid/ignore. Still annoying though.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 6 pts · 248d
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 248d
If a building collapses, it collapses. There is no "implication" anything will be built to replace it. Mankind won't end, but human civilization as we know it most certainly will, and pretty soon. There will be pockets of people everywhere who know how to survive. But hypermaterialism will not, and cannot, survive, as a matter of the same mathematical calculations the whole system is based on.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 2 pts · 248d
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 248d
...I agree that's a fact.
multifariace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 248d
Remember sorting YouTube by new?
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 247d
Fun fact it still is. The only thing that has changed is what you choose to view and focus on
Socialjusticewarrior@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 247d
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 249d
Remember owl memes? Good times!
Vincentmario@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 247d
Where do you monitor the collapse of late stage capitalism on the internet
jim3692@discuss.online · 1 pts · 247d
c/politics
Vincentmario@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 247d
Vagueposting
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 248d
It's still there and you need to find your appropriate ratio. For me it's 1 for 3: to deconstruct the effect of one minute of fascist dystopia I need 3 minutes of cute animal content.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 248d
We all knew the Internet was doomed to end this way.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 248d
So did any communism NOT collapse yet? Late stage communism seems to have killed Russia and all the third world countries that tried it, just look at Somalia. China functionally dropped communism (idk if they're better off for it but they did). Meanwhile free market countries are still around. Communism.mostly just seems to produce emigration and an above-average occurrence of famine.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d
It is often looks better somewhere, where you are not living.