conicalscientist

Opsec is more important than ever. Gangs-talking is real.

They built a wall too.

It was to wipe the news cycle. It worked. Do you remember what it was? Does anyone?

The internet had always been full of those gun boner guys fantasizing about taking up arms against threats to freedom. Younger me had no clue they were the tyranny themselves.

Videos anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes at an anxiety inducing attention disorder riddled pace. Yet all the information can usually be boiled down to a 5 to 10 minute read. It makes no sense. But actually it does because these "infuencers" are modern day infomercial salesmen. The point is to keep you watching so eventually you'll be persuaded to purchase product. Unfortunately I think probably anyone under maybe 25-30 has no clue wtf an infomercial is so the analogy is lost on those who could use it the most.

The Simpsons had this nailed down a long time ago with the Comic Book Guy. Chronically online grown-ass men disgusted that content not made for them had no appeal to them. And everyone must hear about the injustice.

There's a whole thing in sports psychology about what happens when you give kids millions of dollars. Not only that but they are the top in the world at what they do. They were raised to believe they are a special breed of human. It's not just the top pros who get multi-million dollar contracts. It can happen to the kids who don't even make it pro too. It mindfucks a person.

I've been saying for a long time this kind of thing happens in tech too. I grew up with a lot of guys who've made various levels of success in tech from average guy to multi-millionaires. It happens. They really do live in another reality. I don't think it's much different between the pro-sports bubble and the tech bubble. They live and breath tech. It's their whole life. Replace tech with sport. Not much different.

One notable difference is that sports actually recognizes this phenomenon. It's a known studied field of psychology. They make an effort to engage athletes in the community and stuff. Things that keep individuals grounded in reality.

I don't think such things exists for tech. If anything they believe whatever latest antics they're up to is what helps the community and helps themselves keep in touch with reality. Because what the world needs is one more world changing app, another bright idea for a startup that is totally making the world a better place and absolutely not strip mining human sanity for profit.

This happened in the earlier years of Android. Developers were FOSS until people helped them get the app to a polished state. Then close it and charge money. Make a big push to promote the paid app.

My family mellowed out a lot after the parents of the baby boomers died. The boomer generation gets a lot of flak online but for us it was the prior generations who were problematic.

There's no going back anyways. I've tried making new accounts. It's impossible to post anywhere.

The account vetting filters block me everywhere. Can't post unless I'm a vetted poster. Can't become vetted because I can't post to begin with. I can't be bothered to seek out and karma farm on random subreddits that aren't a mess of filters.

Is there any politician that actually stands up to tech? It's like a cheat code that not even Trump is immune to. Nobody wants to be politician who says no to those nerds who use "innovation" as a weapon. Except most of the tech industry is rather useless but everyone is too afraid to be accused of being tech illiterate. We're not losing anything by saying no to the 10000th buzzword salad tech company making yet another useless widget.

It's culture war to distract us from the class war.