WesternInfidels
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7·2 days agoMy first Fediverse account was on Pixelfed. I am nobody, but I immediately attracted a couple dozen followers. All blank profiles, all followed exactly five accounts, all suspiciously algorithmic names. They’ve all gone quiet.
Disingenuous social media participation is everywhere. I think we might call it “cyberturfing.”
4·4 days agoThese kinds of pictures go back years, and it’s really, really easy to mis-label them or to cherry-pick them to provoke whichever reaction the poster is trying to provoke. They have traditionally been a right-wing tool, maybe because so much right-wing sentiment is driven by negative feelings like disgust.
The “Occupy Wall Street” movement included clean-up crews, they even arranged some media photo-ops with their clean-up crews, but trash and litter is what showed up in the media anyway.
So I’m skeptical that I’m learning anything when I see pictures like these. I think you should be skeptical, too.
Charlie Kirk was an out-and-proud racist, and his supporters loved that about him. We don’t have to consider the litter to understand that his supporters are fundamentally opposed to the spirit of America itself.
I wonder if you’d find this video interesting: RC Solar Plane Flight Duration Test
1·25 days agoOh no not another podcast gosh
There was a time when Amazon was not full of scummy rip-off products, when it was not playing games with prices, when it was not a cloud-computing powerhouse, and you know what happened?
That’s right, they crushed their adversaries (retail shopping) and earned billions in profits. They won.
But somehow that’s not enough winning, there isn’t enough winning until all the value has been vacuumed up from the world.