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+Why do you hate people on tiktok so much? Is it just portrait-orientation?
+"when your.. *snicker*" "...? ...oh i get it, he's mentally ret-" "WOAHH!"
+now, realistically, twitter is no stranger to jokes and hyperbole about leaving the hellsite forever.
+longer twitter posts are just bad political takes
+"good luck finding **a site** that isn't owned by an ethically compromised billionaire"
+You could run your own email server. Yes, you. Get an old laptop, leave it plugged in, I bet it's got the specs for it.
+But lots of major email providers have formed a cabal to blacklist quote-unquote spammers. so you can set up a functional mail server, which is already overly complicated, but you'll also have to set up some *more* pieces to be allowed to play with the other kids.
+if you could get that TPS report to me, that'd be greeeaaat.
+Johnathan Doe, M.d., Esq. Chief Assistant to the Executive Administrative Assistant of Regional Internal Officers
+(all the good urls were taken)
+Here Lies e-mail. Murdered by its users.
+Here Lies bluetooth headsets. no words.
 i asked those nerds to do my work for me, and they had the gall to tell me my question was already answered. Can you believe the sense of entitlement on those gatekeepers?
-
-Since then, things at Stack Overflow went from bad to worse. The volume of questions asked has nearly dried up, new data shows.
+Since then, things at Stack Overflow went from bad to worse. The volume of questions asked has nearly dried up, new data shows"
 ChatGPT is faster and it’s trained on StackOverflow data, so the quality of answers is similar.
 Plus, ChatGPT is polite and answers all questions, in contrast to StackOverflow moderators.
-In January, I asked if LLMs are making Stack Overflow irrelevant. We now have an answer, and sadly, it’s a "yes".
-I'll certainly miss having a space on the internet to ask questions. I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out.
-
-yes. it uses open source components.
+In January, I asked if LLMs are making Stack Overflow irrelevant. We now have an answer, and sadly, it’s a “yes.”
+"I'll certainly miss having a space on the internet to ask questions"... "I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out"
+"here's an idea..." "educational theorist Etienne Wenger wrote about communities of practice which describe roughly-- very roughly-- people who do things together." ... "In this sense, practice is always social practice. Communities forming around said practice share all kinds of stuff."
+yes :) it *uses* open source *components*!
+it turns out, they did make the canvas bag. they gave them all out... to influencers. [...] it's not the same one. But it's made of that ever-scarce material: canvas.
+some of them were cold because they found long ago they could not be an owner unless one were cold. and all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid. But some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought, from feeling. these men would take no responsibility for the company because they were men and slaves. While the banks were machines and masters. Some of the ownermen were a little proud to be slaves, to such cold and powerful masters. "when the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. "we have to do it. we don't like to do it, but the monster's sick.. something's happened to the monster." "the bank owned the land then. But we stayed. And we got a little bit of what we raised." "we know that. All that. But it's not us, it's the bank. But the bank isn't like a man. [...] That's the monster." [...] "we're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man." "yes. the bank is only *made of* men." "No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”  "the monster owns it." [...] "the monster isn't men. but it can make men do what it wants."

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-
 *inhale*
 
 I could pick out plenty of low-quality garbage on tiktok, say "this is what's on tiktok and that's why tiktok is bad", just as easily as I could cherrypick high quality stuff and say "this is what's on tiktok and that's why tiktok is great". 
 I know saying anything negative about tiktok gets me branded as old, so let me pull out a reference that's even older than me. 
 Sturgeon's Law: 90% of *everything* is crap. 
-That's not the problem. I don't hate people or content on TikTok. I hate TikTok.
+That's not the problem. I don't hate people or content on TikTok. Well, I do, but not any more than the same for every other platform. I hate TikTok.
 We should all make that sort of distinction - we should treat technology platforms as tools people use, rather than gatherings of people. 
 When you let a platform become a place, and then *your* place, it feels like your home, and now it has a hook in you.
 
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ When you let a platform become a place, and then *your* place, it feels like you
 I don't know if people still have a feeling of a Home Forum. 
 I won't bore you with mine, but I'll say that even now "NWS" feels right and "NSFW" feels weird.
 "So what?" you may say. "Cultures emerge, something something diversity etc". 
-Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But that's not what's happening on modern social media. Every interaction with other people is mediated through an algorithm that sorts you into a group of like-minded people, and shields you from dissent. An account on a website is not membership in a community, it's placement within a market segment.
+Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But that's not what's happening on modern social media. Every interaction with other people is mediated through an algorithm (often labeled "AI" for marketing reasons) that sorts you into a group of like-minded people, and shields you from dissent. An account on a website is not membership in a community, it's placement within a market segment.
 
 
 I'd argue the acronym "NWS" counts as slang. We might know some tiktok-slang - how about the euphemism "unalive"? It's a subcategory of slang called algospeak. Saying the word "murder" worries platform owners that you'll offend the delicate sensibilities of shareholders, so tiktok censors the concepts they don't want you to discuss.
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ when you make some software thing for people there is inevitably a technology st
 you would buy these things, and then have them. 
 what a concept.
 What if you gave money to the vendor, repeatedly forever, and then they didn't give you the networking, storage, servers, or virtualization? let them handle all that for you. that's Infrastructure As A Service.
-What if you were on a higher tier of this Infinite Payment model, and *also* the vendor didn't let you touch the operating system, any middleware, or the runtime? let them handle all that for you. that's a Platform As A Service. 
+What if you were on a higher tier of this Infinite Payment Model, and *also* the vendor didn't let you touch the operating system, any middleware, or the runtime? let them handle all that for you. that's a Platform As A Service. 
 What if your subscription was a bit more expensive, and they owned your data and applications, too? let them handle all that for you. That's Software As A Service.
 generally the allure is that it's lower *startup* cost and outsourced complexity. Sure, you can't take your stuff elsewhere, but as long as they never alter the deal, the math works out.
 The problem is, as ever, conflicting incentives - you want to build a thing that makes money elsewhere, but the platform wants to make money from you. So if you want to connect technology, build off each other, of course the platform wants to jump in the way and charge you for it. 
@@ -44,13 +43,13 @@ Twitter users have been complaining about how it's dead, for real this time, for
 If you're a twitter executive, the message is clear: people will accept whatever you do to them, as long as you're slow enough.
 Youtube has the same pattern. Its history is a litany of shifting creators' adsense money over to copyright squatters, while encouraging worse and worse content. Twitch, the company built on South Korean Starcraft streamers which pulled out of Korea because it's too expensive, might as well send everyone a handwritten note to say "leave our platform!"
 No one will. 
-It's the classic problem. On Youtube, people view Rumble as a place filled with undesirable exiles.
+It's a classic problem. On Youtube, people view Rumble as a place filled with undesirable exiles. to be fair... there's plenty.
 Twitchists and X-People make up reasons for themselves to view the users of their platforms' rivals as their own enemies. 
 When you think of yourself not as a creator of static video content, but rather as a youtuber, youtube rests on that loyalty. That's way easier than doing anything to implement moderation features like what twitch has. All they have to do is let you tell yourself there's barbarians at the gates.
 If you have the inexplicable addiction to twitter that the world seems to have, you won't dream of being able to post 1024 characters at a time like we've been doing on mastodon this whole time. Or you might say something dumb like, 
 to make it easier for you to rationalize something else dumb, like:
 without realizing that a communication network doesn't *have* to be centralized under one man's stock portfolio,
-so you don't have to move away from him if he starts leaning hard into fascism.
+so you don't have to weigh the choice of ditching your entire social circle against contributing to the property of someone leaning hard into fascism.
 
 
 what if, rather than platform barons trying to take everything they can from you, they spent that effort trying to take from each other? (we could "federate" them together... but I'll spare you a second episode of fediverse evangelism.)
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ what if, rather than platform barons trying to take everything they can from you
 
 You know what was federated well before the fediverse was built? Email. Servers talk to each other, your email address is you@server. 
 amazing. 
-There's a reason that happened. Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to use email. To help them understand, they were told it's like writing a letter. So manager types of the world overall decided that the custom in email-land is to add pointless bullshit before and after *every single message*. 
+There's a reason that happened. Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to use email. To help them understand, they were told it's like writing a letter. So manager types the world over decided that the custom in email-land is to add pointless bullshit before and after *every single message*. 
 
 
 Johnathan Doe, M.d., Esq.
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ Hello, H. Burger. I hope this missive finds you well.
 
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@@ -105,19 +104,19 @@ To these, it's not about writing the record. It's about building their self-imag
 
 StackOverflow is building something. Something to be referenced. That concept is lost on people whose only metric is number of eyeballs watching ads - observe this dogshit take.
 A smarter person would understand, less new questions means the project is *finishing* its goal. However...
-Again, the AI-faithful have no concept of concepts. StackOverflow is *correct*, because users *understand concepts*. But for this so-called engineer, that's inconceivable. It chatGPT writes more words on the subject, "looks good enough to me".
-notice 2 more points: one, he does not understand the concept of sharing information. He only measures the practice of asking and answering. stackoverflow questions get marked as duplicate, frequently. Because the question has already been asked, and answered. 2, he imagines moderators as a cabal of gatekeepers stifling him, when it's the community at large that rejects him.
+Again, the AI-faithful have no concept of concepts. StackOverflow is *correct*, because users *understand concepts*. But for this so-called engineer, that's inconceivable. If chatGPT writes more words on the subject, "looks good enough to me".
+notice 2 more points: one, he does not understand the concept of sharing information. He only measures the act of asking and answering. stackoverflow questions get marked as duplicate, frequently. Because the question has already been asked, and answered. 2, he imagines moderators as a cabal of gatekeepers stifling him, when it's the community at large disobeying him.
 I don't know why he says "sadly". he doesn't want reference to learn from, he wants a sycophant to save him from learning. 
 The way he thinks of stack overflow is like if he went to wikipedia, but only talk pages, where he asked about the information in the regular article.
 
 
 Wenger (via Rugnetta) presents a fascinating (albeit generous) idea. The way people work is to have a practice, then form a social tribe related to that practice.
 
-But what happens when there is no practice?
+But what happens when there is no practicing?
 
 StackOverflow is about the development of software. But for imbeciles, development isn't real; so it's a space where developers hang out.
 Bluetooth headsets aren't viewed as a better solution to voice communication, they're a fashion accessory that signifies lifestyle.
-e-mail isn't thought of as "a way to send text between machines", it's treated as "an official communication channel where your boss *talks at* you".
+e-mail isn't thought of as "a way to send data between machines", it's treated as "an official communication channel where your boss *talks at* you".
 the fediverse allows you to free yourself and your social circle from the platform they happen to use - so it's incomprehensible to people who seek to build fame on a platform.
 
 Now, those who own the technology you use find themselves with leverage over you, for free.
@@ -163,7 +162,9 @@ how many times have we seen a company get called out by an influencer for some r
 we get an algorithm. built into the platform, serving only economic incentives. The Algorithm will decide.
 
 
-In 1939, the Grapes of Wrath talked about the bank. our monster is The Algorithm. Like a capricious dark god, its wrath is unpredictable and its favor is unreliable. Its only directive: 
+In 1939, the Grapes of Wrath talked about the bank. our monster is The Algorithm. 
+Like a capricious dark god, its wrath is unpredictable and its favor is unreliable.
+Its only directive: 
 sacrifice for the shareholders.