Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.

The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.

In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That’s why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It’s why “disruptive” (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.

It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don’t even know. They’re completely entranced by it all.

Bogeymen are imaginary. Political troll farms are real.

I lost all my accounts by attrition. I had dozens. Maybe even few dozen.

In spite of trying the rate of replacement was basically zero. As you described it’s impossible to make and maintain new accounts.

Take this is an opportunity to wean yourself off reddit. It’s worthless anyways.

Has anyone else noticed the recent resurgence of mechanical turk jobs? It’s all AI training work. Before the work was doing tasks directly. Now they have people training tailored AI models.

In other words the tech bros have found get another way to shoehorn themselves in as a middle man. Instead of having workers do the work itself. Now the work is delegated to AI. Which is trained to do the task by humans.

At first it said the LLM era was the end of mechanical turk work. It’s going in a circle back to mechanical turks again.

Somewhere there’s a line in propaganda playbook that says to blame everything on the left. Has to be. At this point so there’s been many random comments attempting to “ackshually the left”. Probably the the cover of such a thing is titled Flooding the Zone or something.

This is a generalized problem. It’s not only programming. The world faces a critical collapse of expertise if we defer to AI.

There’s a world that exists outside of your bubble. It’s real. No matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

Instead of slop they feed you guac.

Did you read the article? This isn’t about a research paper that talks about theoretical lab experiments. Sodium batteries are in real world application right now. Mainly in China and South America.

You can buy sodium batteries from AliExpress. It’s been available for a while. I was thinking about ordering a few but I ended up spending my hobby budget elsewhere. There’s no economies of scale yet for sodium battery tech. You can get the battery but there is zero electronics available for it. Mainly you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules. That’s out of my pay grade. I’ve been waiting for Chinese engineers to mass produce such things.

Whenever all this ends in half a century or whatever. There should probably be some kind of more generalized non-proliferation pact. To prevent a single nation from leap frogging every other by multiple factors.

It’s a rogue state at this point. The most powerful one on earth. Who could stop them even if they wanted to.

Tech bro libertarians have no limits. No boundaries. Nothing is off the table for them. All they care about is money and power.

They know to get these things they have to start small. Say the right words that people want to hear. They say anything to make the sale. Their words mean nothing. They’re liars every day that ends in “y”. They gradually push boundaries until there are no more.

Chip wars. Probably has something to do with the US telling the Dutch to seize control of Nexperia.

Imagine if China seized Intel. Surely the response from the west would be far more severe.

New media indeed coincides with revolutions. I disagree with your final assessment. We have yet to see how this turn of new media plays out.

Good or bad is a relative. The frame of reference should be contemporary. Just because we ostensibly have technological luxuries not mean things are going well right now. Authoritarianism on another up cycle.

The newer generation of tech users know only of a narrow subset of technology from big tech / ad tech. They know little of anything at all the grassroots era of technology.

Apparently ban has a different meaning than it used to. I keep seeing dramatic posts about Who-Gives-Shit influencer getting banned from somewhere. The next day or two I see another post about how they’re back.

If the far right would stop using Lemmy that would be fantastic news. (inb4 hurr durr echo chamber!!!11!)

Will there ever be an app ecosystem for Linux phones. I don’t see how could happen. I’m talking actual apps like banking or payment systems. Institutional software such as government apps that requires a stable platform. Not a janky Linux system that is prone to breakage every few updates or scatter across different distros. Seems like the year of the linux desktop meme could end up morphing into the year of the linux phone.

Now’s the time for Espressif to spin off their own ecosystem.

Is there some evil villain angle to this. Like the data is hosted outside of any country thus not subject to any laws or regulations.

You can’t post about JD Vance because that bloated face meme hurt his feelings. I’m sure any human rights groups worth their salt have had plenty to say about the US. They’ve been disappearing Muslims to black sites for decades. That among the litany of ways minorities are targeted. So what’s your point? That you’re so deep in American propaganda that you thought you had a point?