Seldon

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Vast swaths of the internet have extinguished over time. The last bastion holding the glue together of the old internet remains largely in the internet archive and Space Jam's website from 1996. Most of what is left is the fascist commercial conglomerates capitalizing on the remains.

The point is that not only are these companies turning public work into products, they're also choking the last bit of life left out of the old internet, and driving up the price so that no one can ever make their own thing on the internet.

He can believe or not believe however the fuck much he wants. I still don't know why "belief" is used so interchangeably with understanding, by basically everyone. When this angonizing hemorrhoid says "I don't believe in germ theory" what he really is saying is "I don't understand germ theory". Germs are there whether he believes or not.

If, somehow this next midterm election goes well, then maybe there's a mild chance at a more peaceful methods. I doubt it. It'll be business as usual in a few years. The next round of fascism will be elected in the next election, another neoliberal supporting genocide will be on the Democratic ticket and another round of madness of fascism ensues. Frankly, the US as a democracy has been officially dead since the Supreme Court gave the president immunity from anything. How can you run a democracy with such power in one person?

There's undercover thugs kidnapping and murdering people. There's a president making $6 million a day from illegal trading. There's a new focus on domestic left wing "terrorism". But not a peep from the masses. It's business as usual, as always.

Rich-asshole/CEO-says-a-thing journalism. They say something completely absurd, and it actually makes its way around the news and memes. I swear, if we stop reporting these imbeciles and sharing this nonsense, half of the internet would have no idea what to do. The internet thrives and dies on these stupid souless pointless reactionary news articles, Tiktok dancing and tide-pod eating/trendy bullshit, and LLM stupidity.

Life is just good enough where most people don't care as much, because their frame of reference is the one small bad act that just happened. Bad things progressing slowly over time is the strategy of fascists. Most people don't realize what has been lost, they largely only remember when it affects them personally. The goalposts have been incrementally moving, shifting chaos into normalcy. As long as things get worse slowly, most people won't notice. Social media has only exacerbated the short attention spans of the masses.

The planet's climate is catastrophically changing, dictatorships are emerging all over the world and even in your own country, and a few rich assholes literally own everything, but god forbid, we can't stop working or scrolling Tiktok.

Both. There's a difference between showing some clerk your ID compared to uploading it to the internet. It's not a question of if it being hacked. It will be. Denial of this is dangerous. If you don't see this as important, you're desensitized by the sheer number of yearly cyber attacks.

And that's only the start. Children will only be marginalized. Protected groups will be increasingly threatened. Take your pick on whatever organization you want to look at, and they'll say this doesn't help anyone, except maybe foreign adversaries and hacking groups. What happens when the next government comes along and decides to make a more US kind of implementation? The point is, that we should not make this the precedent. Ever. Kick it while it's down.