Yeah.

I feel like most US folks sorta go through life day to day, paycheck to paycheck, and they are not going to realize how stressed that system is until it breaks under their feet.

This is kinda how Trump operated in the business world, relying on (as one example) public investment to kinda just… continue their routine and absorb funky schemes. As one specific example, selling real estate from his private company to his public one at inflated, hyped prices. And he was onto the next controversy before the fallout of that one mattered.

He’s a showman, a salesman, at his core.

It feels like he’s doing the same thing now, prioritizing superficial short term stability; but that only works so long. And there is no one left to hand the bag to now.

Thing about a lot of the government dysfunction is that its being covered by aide systems and overworked people pushed to the edge. I guess this has been true for awhile, under both parties, but its at an unsustainable extreme now.

…And I’m really afraid voters are not going to realize that.

Interesting.

Pleasantly conspiratorial, plausible rationale, hitting critical mass and linked… That feels a lot like old Reddit.

Sounds about right.

Does any Mexican press point this out? The Guardian certainly doesn’t.

…As opposed to what? Mass killing of Muslims?

I tried to look up Putanism and the associated ideology. Shrug.

I’m not saying it’s authentic, but a lot of stuff seems to be cloaked in Soviet nostalgia and collectivist, anti-capitalist ideals. Hence, tankies.

…Isn’t Putin’s Russia ostensibly authoritarian leftist?

EG they are philosophically against individualism, materialism and such, kinda like Soviet Russia?

Why are we making X one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys?

That’s a fascinating question.

It’s like the core goal is… being part of the ‘tribe’? I thought that was more of an implicit feeling, but is that the explicit mindset of the Turning Point audience?

Where be the tankies?

I’m sure this is all just western propaganda or some kind of misunderstanding. There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation…

Yeah. Western democracies are the apprentice, China is the master here.

China Plus Plus

Yeah, I mean, the dollar cheesy is in the supermarket.

Farmer’s markets are pretty close to this though, sometimes.

On top of what others said, they issued it for cash so they can expand their business and pass the risk onto investors.

…Hence the risk now.

It would be political suicide. I bet most of them would get recalled.

Many founders worried over party politics to their death beds. Their nightmare? A demagogue with such a grip over his party he can basically command congress.

That’s what we got.

Congress aren’t handing over power; it was already taken from them before the term. Their hands are tied.

I don’t agree. Tons of folks spend tons of time influencing for basically no financial gain (or the platform taking the vast majority of it). Attention is everything.

In other cases, people are just tribal, and like following someone.

That’s always been (and will always be) an issue, but the monster of this story is engagement optimizing design. Technology has made this human tendency extremly dangerous, and “engagement at any cost” needs to be a social taboo.

This is quintessential “Modern CPP”

Take a real problem screwing up the western world bad (like influencer mis/disinformation), and smash it in a way only their massive state apparatus can…

Superficially.

It’s “proof” their party line works and, as always, a good way to control the populace, if abused. It’s probably effective, but not as effective as it appears on the surface.

I’m sympathetic here.

In past years I was a “free internet” libertarian leaning diehard, but something has to be done about algos boosting shameless outrage peddlers; it’s literally destroying the planet and our collective psyche, just for short term corporate benefit (Or corpo-state benefit in China’s case, as its “Big Tech” is under the party’s thumb). But China just took the problem and used it as an excuse for more control.

The bot isn’t really cognizant of its own replies.

…Well, it could be with a postfilter, ranging from sanity checking its own reply, to a tiny separate safety model (of which many exist), to a basic keyword check. But apparently Twitter has no resources for such things.

But the point is this isn’t really the intended design.

And yet the article is basically all upvotes.

As of late, Lemmy has been feeling way too much like Reddit to me, where clickbait trends hard as long as it affirms the environment.

I’ve even pointed this out once, and had OP basically respond with “I don’t care if it’s misinformation. I agree with the sentiment.” And mods did nothing.

That’s called disinformation.

Not that information hygiene is a priority here :(

Yeah, comments often “correct” that, but that doesn’t stop the extra order of magnitude of exposure the original post gets.

As much as the Twitter format sucks, Lemmy could really use a similar “community note” blurb right below headlines.

Preface: I love The Guardian, and fuck Altman.

But this is a bad headline.

Correlation is not causation. It’s disturbing that OpenAI even possesses, and has mined for these statistics, or that millions of people somehow think their ChatGPT app has any semblance of privacy, but I’m reading that millions reached out to ChatGPT with suicidal ideations.

Not that it’s the root cause.

The headline is that the mental health of the world sucks, not that ChatGPT inflamed the crisis all of the sudden. The Guardian should be ashamed of shoehorning in some “Fuck AI” article into that for clicks, when there are literally a million other malicious bits of OpenAI they could cover. This a sad story, sourced from an app that has an unprecedented (and disturbing) window into folks psyche en masse, they’ve twisted into clickbait.