this article is about how and why four of the world’s largest corporations are intentionally centralizing the internet and selling us horseshit. it’s a fun and depressing read about crypto, the metaverse, AI, and the pattern of behavior that led to all of those being pushed in spite of their utter worthlessness. here’s some pull quotes:
Web 3.0 probably won’t involve the blockchain or NFTs in any meaningful way. We all may or may not one day join the metaverse and wear clunky goggles on our faces for the rest of our lives. And it feels increasingly unlikely that our graphic designers, artists, and illustrators will suddenly change their job titles to "prompt artist” anytime soon.
I can’t stress this point enough. The reason why GAMM and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.
The presumptive beneficiaries of this new land of milk and honey are so drunk with speculative power that they’ll promise us anything to win our hearts and minds. That anything includes magical virtual reality universes and robots with human-like intelligence. It’s the same faux-passionate anything that proclaimed crypto as the savior of the marginalized. The utter bullshit anything that would have us believe that the meek shall inherit the earth, and the powerful won’t do anything to stop it.
it’s hardly news that VCs and shit spend influence and capital to shape perception and manufacture consent. it’s so not-news it was even literally mentioned in the very article this thread is about
golly fuck it’s been a pristine couple of days for posters to not read the article and then come in here and fucking make up what they figure the article says
these ones didn’t even bring mangled quotes to try and force their point, they just straight up didn’t open the link
ah yes, everyone’s favorite not suspicious at all YouTube channel “offensive freedom” and their utterly normal videos
fuck it, I’m gonna be real cute and delete their post so they can get real mad about their free speech (and also so the horseshit they linked doesn’t get SEO or whatever from us)
holy fuck I seriously didn’t expect Nix transphobia out of nowhere (I don’t correlate my bans with what other instances do so I don’t usually check the modlog, and their modded posts are old enough I didn’t catch them in their post history)
the programming dot dev defed counter is incrementing rapidly. do any of our regulars come from that instance?
I fucking love taking a week off then coming back and finding these “sort by controversial” threads.
it’s so weird how the garbage finds us in bursts, like all week it’ll be relatively quiet then the weekend comes and the floodgates open
