Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

[eczem]

17 minutes ago, usagi said:

 

lastly, here's something you can do as an individual to help fix the problem: delete your social media accounts. it's not as hard as you think, living without that shit.

On the contrary, life improves almost immediately. (At least for me in regards to FB).

[sweepstakes]

27 minutes ago, eczem said:

On the contrary, life improves almost immediately. (At least for me in regards to FB).

Yeah you can really tell the difference between those who hang out on FB/IG or whatever mind poison and those who don't.

[Zephyr_Nova]

33 minutes ago, usagi said:

an insurrectionist lopez appears

...with his partner in crime, Sam Hyde.

[mister miller]

1 hour ago, usagi said:

delete your social media accounts. it's not as hard as you think, living without that shit.

FB was easy

insta was harder, but not bad

reddit is the one i can't get rid of for some reason....and i know it's toxic

[m0rb1d]

8 hours ago, rhmilo said:

The top right meth dynasty gentleman is the vocalist from the metal band Iced Earth.  Lel 

https://blabbermouth.net/news/iced-earths-jon-schaffer-arrested-for-role-in-capitol-riot/

[usagi]

1 hour ago, mister miller said:

reddit is the one i can't get rid of for some reason....and i know it's toxic

my hot tip for this one: allow yourself to type in reddit.com in your browser when you feel the urge, allow yourself to click Go, allow the page to load even, and then close it without looking at anything. for some reason deflecting the urge this way worked for me. it may take several weeks of doing this but eventually you'll forget about it, your brain will start to regrow as you stop taking insta-opinions from the ADD college kid hivemind.

I think youtube, which doesn't fall in quite the same category as FB or Twitter but is definitely at the forefront of disinformation propagation, is the hardest one to beat overall. I'm not going to kill my yt account with my 5000+ favourites playlist that I've built over 13 years. at least it's easier not to engage with others on it but there is so much bullshit content and their leadership doesn't care at all.

2 hours ago, eczem said:

On the contrary, life improves almost immediately. (At least for me in regards to FB).

I didn't have an immediate improvement and there was a cost to pay in terms of my social life, but I decided that if a connection could not be maintained without FB then it was an acceptable cost given the bigger problem. over time unplugging from that shit helped realign some of my perceptions. that was a few years ago, shortly after Cambridge Analytica which I naively thought would have been the nail in the coffin for a lot more people but which was basically ignored.

Edited January 19, 2021 by usagi

[eczem]

41 minutes ago, usagi said:

I didn't have an immediate improvement and there was a cost to pay in terms of my social life, but I decided that if a connection could not be maintained without FB then it was an acceptable cost given the bigger problem. over time unplugging from that shit helped realign some of my perceptions. that was a few years ago, shortly after Cambridge Analytica which I naively thought would have been the nail in the coffin for a lot more people but which was basically ignored.

Yeah, I quit FB a few years ago as well, for a few reasons, but I basically concluded that any value from it wasn't worth the cost. Cambridge Analytica really underscored that for me... there were connections that were effectively lost, but I figured if they really wanted to get a hold of me they could via email, and if not it, wasn't a connection worth keeping, or rather, the connection was artificial to being with. But I was surprised at the feeling of liberation I gained not long after shutting it off.  I still have a few social media items as well that I just occasionally use, like Instagram and Youtube, but those never came close, for me, to the same level of toxicity. Somehow I've largely dodged Reddit all these years, heh

[ignatius]

quit facebook some months ago finally. had hung on there because i needed it for work but once the pandemic settled in I dropped out of it and let my boss know it was his ballgame now and forever.  i was only there for a few people anymore anyways. i had hidden and unfollowed pretty much everyone except for maybe 5 people. once i did that facebook was more or less utilitarian and i could talk to some far away friends now and then. but one of those friends stopped talking to me for some reason still unknown to me and the other friends i could check in with via text or whatever. so it was really easy to kill that account for good. before all that i had deleted it from my phone years ago and would only check it at work anyways. it's a pretty shit site other than for finding out about local shows.

twitter isn't bad. i only follow a bunch of music or artist people and i try to avoid the right sidebar of "what's trending" because that's the rabbit hole of shit shows. 

tumblr is good for photography and art and design stuff and cyberpunk type shit.. just scrolling and looking at images and stuff. it's mindless and there's no other real interaction for me beyond that. 

instagram isn't so bad except for all the fucking ads. jesus there's so many ads. also only follow some friends and music people. it's good for that but there's still something silently toxic about it especially if you let it interfere with experiences. 

"mostly just need to be less addicted to the internet" [he typed into the internet, farting loudly]

 

[dingformung]

I browse WATMM compulsively. It's the dumbest addiction ever, quite pathetic in fact.

 

[Zephyr_Nova]

Relatable.

[Limo]

I don't think anyone has stormed a government building based on what he's read on WATMM, however.

[dingformung]

Yet!

[jules]

12 minutes ago, rhmilo said:

I don't think anyone has stormed a government building based on what he's read on WATMM, however.

Put an Oversteps tour soundboard in one of those buildings, leave a cryptic clue embedded in a banner ad and then see what happens tho

Edited January 19, 2021 by jules

[usagi]

^ I imagine it'd go something like:

attention pedes, those antifa fuckbois at Warp are trying to steal the soundboards from us! Sambob promised they'd go up on the Ae store but the commie pedo scum have decided to violate our first amendment RAHTS by denying us a free and fair release. we must rally at Warp HQ to show our support! *HIGH ENERGY* *HONK HONK*

[Psychotronic]

Soon

 

 

 

[ignatius]

Re Facebook it’s worth mentioning it’s a terrible company in case that wasn’t obvious




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[Cryptowen]

DON OF THE FINAL DAY

-24 hours remain-

Spoiler

i haven't been on facebook or any other social media for a few years now. i avoid news sites & sites with conspicious advertising. mostly i just use the internet for small discussion forums & obtaining media (ie books, albums, longform videos as opposed to the dripfeed of #content). plz make every effort to shield yer brains from the lizard people's indoctrination machine, everyone

 

[Limo]

50 minutes ago, Cryptowen said:

-24 hours remain-

20, 20, 20, 4 hours to go:

 

[brian trageskin]

18 hours ago, ignatius said:

treasonous fucks. 

FBI authorities are seeking a Pennsylvania woman in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this month after an accusation from a former "romantic partner" that she took a laptop from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the intention to sell it to Russian intelligence.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/capitol-rioter-plotted-to-sell-stolen-pelosi-laptop-to-russian-intelligence/2447489/?fbclid=IwAR3rsKVcrMdEU-GF9Bpk264WfZWI1WTjud8PVlsut3epjtZ34Jr-sVSO3fA

 

 

[iococoi]

[may be rude]

19 hours ago, hijexx said:

Wish it was that simple. I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to help a loved one think critically about all of these election fraud claims. Motivated reasoning prevents people from doing the sorting you’re talking about.

 

19 hours ago, sweepstakes said:

Many of these people utterly lack the resources to do so, or refuse due to identity / tribe / allegiance / cult / conspiracy-belief. It's become a thought disease.

I think this is an increasingly common example where all we know how to do, or are allowed to do, is hope people come around and do the right thing, but that is totally inadequate. Profit is being made keeping them ignorant and riled up.

yeah, good points. i try to project my consciousness into the future and view the evolved solution. i think increased norms of logical debate literacy and media literacy will be in the future, but that's a long-term thing, and it cannot be relied on as the only solution.  

• i would like to see momentum on the legislative initiative of bolstering public resources on logical analysis, civic manipulation and methodologies for assessing reporting, as well as school curiculums adding weight to critical thinking and civics.
• i think that society is growing a new layer, adjacent to journalism: a stratum of the public interacting with, more closely following, and somewhat participating in journalism. for example, sharing is distrbution. i think we're not used to thinking about this mode of civic participation so it's not yet fully evolved, and perhaps we will benefit from it being stronger.
• journalism needs to level up and one thing that will catalyze that is the public applying pressure to them to be better. this has been happening and it needs to continue.
• continued and increasing democratic participation will punish, disincentivize, and remove a number of bad actors
• there are ungodly media actors who need to have the shit beaten out of them, metaphorically. i don't know how, exactly, but they can't continue to be allowed to get away with their shit. maybe just increased awareness and shaming will punish them through their revenue. like, if every lefty decided to apply themselves to describing to rightists the heinous dog shit nature of fox, oan, newsmax, limbaugh, and alex jones, those shit feeders would feel the hit.   

 

social media: tweetdeck.twitter.com is great if you want to bypass the selection algorithm. open a couple home columns. you can link multiple accounts. maybe you want to have a pseudonymous activist account that follows a lot of journalists you like, that you use to influence them and lobby politicians. then another one to follow comedians. you can do that with lists, too. unfollow without pity, and twitter can be a good content feed. you can also contribute to the public conversation. 

Edited January 19, 2021 by very honest

[dingformung]

- Socialise social media and put it under parliamentarian control. The idea that some tech company's para-police is responsible for handling matters of such high public importance is negligent, irresponsible and undemocratic. If you're at it, nationalise prisons, too. 

- You need public service broadcasting in the US (like in other modern countries). PBS is only almost what I mean - PBS gets financed through donations of businesses and private people and is dependant on selling stories. They and other broadcasters should constantly get government money so they aren't dependant on sensationalism and entertainment. Trump was financially worthwhile for commercial media, so they helped him (even the "left" ones in that they liked bashing him but not really doing their job beyond that - debunking and analysing and making the public aware of the true dimensions, which is a little less entertaining than saying how dumb his tweets are, and yields lesser ratings). The lack of public service broadcasting in the US leads to entertainment driven politics programs that are often dumb as fuck. PBS is still good, I guess, but do people actually watch PBS as much as the other broadcasters?

Edited January 19, 2021 by dingformung

[J3FF3R00]

31 minutes ago, dingformung said:

- Socialise social media and put it under parliamentarian control. The idea that some tech company's para-police is responsible for handling matters of such high public importance is negligent, irresponsible and undemocratic. If you're at it, nationalise prisons, too. 

- You need public service broadcasting in the US (like in other modern countries). PBS is only almost what I mean - PBS gets financed through donations of businesses and private people and is dependant on selling stories. They and other broadcasters should constantly get government money so they aren't dependant on sensationalism and entertainment. Trump was financially worthwhile for commercial media, so they helped him (even the "left" ones in that they liked bashing him but not really doing their job beyond that - debunking and analysing and making the public aware of the true dimensions, which is a little less entertaining than saying how dumb his tweets are, and yields lesser ratings). The lack of public service broadcasting in the US leads to entertainment driven politics programs that are often dumb as fuck. PBS is still good, I guess, but do people actually watch PBS as much as the other broadcasters?

NPR FTW. It’s the only thing that kept me sane for the past 4-5 years. It’s also a huge bonus that you don’t need to look at the president’s face every time he’s in the news... plus all you need is headphones. 

[joshuatxuk]

wife works at the TX state capitol and they've closed for today and tomorrow, I think every state legislature building has

[ambermonk]

Just now, joshuatxuk said:

wife works at the TX state capitol and they've closed for today and tomorrow, I think every state legislature building has

Good. I think it was last week I heard that the goon squads were planning a second raid on all 50 state capitols tomorrow. At least they had the courtesy to spill their intentions in advance.