From d72554f25b582a5c4285fb60ea62016fb7547b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: keeno Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 18:00:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added temporary srt atm --- src/Platfom as place.srt | 963 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 963 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/Platfom as place.srt diff --git a/src/Platfom as place.srt b/src/Platfom as place.srt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dfc14f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Platfom as place.srt @@ -0,0 +1,963 @@ +1 +00:00:00,283 --> 00:00:02,083 +Why do you hate people on TikTok so + +2 +00:00:02,083 --> 00:00:02,450 +much? + +3 +00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:05,083 +Is it just portrait orientation? + +4 +00:00:05,750 --> 00:00:07,483 +Inhale when you're- Ha! + +5 +00:00:07,883 --> 00:00:08,783 +I get it! + +6 +00:00:09,050 --> 00:00:10,500 +He's mentally ripped off! + +7 +00:00:10,583 --> 00:00:11,183 +Whoa, whoa! + +8 +00:00:11,550 --> 00:00:13,466 +I could pick out plenty of low quality + +9 +00:00:13,466 --> 00:00:15,700 +garbage on TikTok, say, this is what's on + +10 +00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:17,983 +TikTok and that's why TikTok is bad, just + +11 +00:00:17,983 --> 00:00:19,683 +as easily as I could cherry pick high + +12 +00:00:19,683 --> 00:00:21,850 +quality stuff and say, this is what's on + +13 +00:00:21,850 --> 00:00:23,583 +TikTok and that's why TikTok is great. + +14 +00:00:25,050 --> 00:00:27,666 +I know saying anything negative about TikTok gets + +15 +00:00:27,666 --> 00:00:29,450 +me branded as old, so let me pull + +16 +00:00:29,450 --> 00:00:31,083 +out a reference that's even older than me. + +17 +00:00:31,750 --> 00:00:34,566 +Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap. + +18 +00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:36,966 +That's not the problem. + +19 +00:00:37,350 --> 00:00:39,683 +I don't hate people or content on TikTok. + +20 +00:00:40,416 --> 00:00:42,166 +Well, I do, but not any more than + +21 +00:00:42,166 --> 00:00:43,100 +the same for any other platform. + +22 +00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:44,716 +I hate TikTok. + +23 +00:00:46,283 --> 00:00:48,166 +We should all make that sort of distinction. + +24 +00:00:48,783 --> 00:00:51,166 +We should treat technology platforms as tools people + +25 +00:00:51,166 --> 00:00:53,700 +use rather than gatherings of people. + +26 +00:00:55,316 --> 00:00:57,350 +When you let a platform become a place, + +27 +00:00:57,550 --> 00:00:59,566 +and then your place, it feels like your + +28 +00:00:59,566 --> 00:01:01,250 +home, and now it has a hook in + +29 +00:01:01,250 --> 00:01:01,383 +you. + +30 +00:01:02,383 --> 00:01:03,783 +I don't know if people still have a + +31 +00:01:03,783 --> 00:01:05,016 +feeling of a home forum. + +32 +00:01:05,550 --> 00:01:06,916 +I won't bore you with mine, but I'll + +33 +00:01:06,916 --> 00:01:09,166 +say that even now, NWS feels right and + +34 +00:01:09,166 --> 00:01:10,583 +NSFW feels weird. + +35 +00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:12,083 +So what? + +36 +00:01:12,283 --> 00:01:12,766 +You may say. + +37 +00:01:13,050 --> 00:01:15,666 +Cultures emerge, something, something, diversity, etc. + +38 +00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,800 +Microcosms of culture are all well and good, + +39 +00:01:19,183 --> 00:01:21,200 +but that's not what's happening on modern social + +40 +00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:21,466 +media. + +41 +00:01:21,466 --> 00:01:24,783 +Every interaction with other people is mediated through + +42 +00:01:24,783 --> 00:01:27,516 +an algorithm, often labeled AI for marketing reasons, + +43 +00:01:27,683 --> 00:01:29,616 +that sorts you into a group of like + +44 +00:01:29,616 --> 00:01:32,316 +-minded people, and shields you from dissent. + +45 +00:01:33,283 --> 00:01:35,750 +An account on a website is not membership + +46 +00:01:35,750 --> 00:01:38,716 +in a community, it's placement within a market + +47 +00:01:38,716 --> 00:01:39,166 +segment. + +48 +00:01:40,250 --> 00:01:43,000 +I'd argue that the acronym NWS counts as + +49 +00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:43,316 +slang. + +50 +00:01:43,716 --> 00:01:45,466 +We might know some TikTok slang. + +51 +00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,616 +How about the euphemism on Alive? + +52 +00:01:48,550 --> 00:01:51,166 +It's a subcategory of slang called algo-speak. + +53 +00:01:51,666 --> 00:01:54,366 +Saying the word murder worries platform owners that + +54 +00:01:54,366 --> 00:01:57,683 +you'll offend the delicate sensibilities of shareholders, so + +55 +00:01:57,683 --> 00:01:59,900 +TikTok censors the concepts they don't want you + +56 +00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:00,550 +to discuss. + +57 +00:02:01,350 --> 00:02:03,716 +At the risk of starting an internet argument, + +58 +00:02:04,350 --> 00:02:07,483 +censorship is bad, and stopping you from saying + +59 +00:02:07,483 --> 00:02:09,100 +something is censorship. + +60 +00:02:09,883 --> 00:02:12,950 +We are witnessing censorship and pitiful attempts to + +61 +00:02:12,950 --> 00:02:14,600 +circumvent it right now. + +62 +00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,516 +If you have something to say about some + +63 +00:02:17,516 --> 00:02:21,200 +unfavorable topic, perhaps the Tiananmen Square Massacre, yet + +64 +00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,983 +you feel attached to TikTok like it was + +65 +00:02:22,983 --> 00:02:25,516 +your home, you dance around the topic to + +66 +00:02:25,516 --> 00:02:27,416 +fly under the radar of the censors. + +67 +00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,050 +In doing so, you're self-censoring. + +68 +00:02:31,366 --> 00:02:33,766 +Imagine if TikTok had some way to ask + +69 +00:02:33,766 --> 00:02:35,766 +you if you're interested in the current trending + +70 +00:02:35,766 --> 00:02:38,316 +thing, like Twitter's trending topics. + +71 +00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:42,316 +Now imagine that there's an approaching protest for + +72 +00:02:42,316 --> 00:02:45,400 +an extradition bill, but ByteDance doesn't want you + +73 +00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,016 +mentioning it. + +74 +00:02:47,283 --> 00:02:49,750 +The meme would be to instead say something + +75 +00:02:49,750 --> 00:02:52,316 +boring like tax return extension. + +76 +00:02:53,116 --> 00:02:55,900 +Spreading awareness is not going to happen, but + +77 +00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,216 +people perform the meme because what they care + +78 +00:02:58,216 --> 00:03:00,650 +about is their fame on TikTok. + +79 +00:03:02,016 --> 00:03:04,500 +A place is made for you, and all + +80 +00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:06,316 +it asks is that you let them have + +81 +00:03:06,316 --> 00:03:07,000 +your speech. + +82 +00:03:07,850 --> 00:03:10,300 +In the technology sector, the way to make + +83 +00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:12,616 +money is to blatantly do something evil and + +84 +00:03:12,616 --> 00:03:13,650 +call it innovation. + +85 +00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,700 +Have you heard the most irritating phrasal template, + +86 +00:03:17,150 --> 00:03:17,800 +as-a-service? + +87 +00:03:18,766 --> 00:03:21,083 +Minimal version for any grass-touching griddle critters? + +88 +00:03:22,216 --> 00:03:23,550 +When you make some software thing for people, + +89 +00:03:23,616 --> 00:03:26,150 +there's inevitably a technology stack, like this one. + +90 +00:03:26,716 --> 00:03:28,566 +You would buy these things, and then have + +91 +00:03:28,566 --> 00:03:28,766 +them. + +92 +00:03:29,366 --> 00:03:30,366 +What a concept. + +93 +00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,516 +What if you gave money to the vendor, + +94 +00:03:33,816 --> 00:03:36,783 +repeatedly, forever, and then they didn't give you + +95 +00:03:36,783 --> 00:03:39,400 +the networking, storage, servers, or virtualization? + +96 +00:03:39,816 --> 00:03:41,166 +Let them handle all that for you. + +97 +00:03:41,466 --> 00:03:43,583 +That is infrastructure-as-a-service. + +98 +00:03:45,083 --> 00:03:47,200 +What if you're on a higher tier of + +99 +00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,900 +this infinite payment model, and also the vendor + +100 +00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:52,066 +didn't let you touch the operating system, any + +101 +00:03:52,066 --> 00:03:53,316 +middleware, or the runtime? + +102 +00:03:53,616 --> 00:03:54,950 +Let them handle all that for you. + +103 +00:03:55,350 --> 00:03:57,200 +That's platform-as-a-service. + +104 +00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,800 +What if your subscription was a bit more + +105 +00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:01,800 +expensive, and they owned your data and applications + +106 +00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:02,116 +too? + +107 +00:04:02,350 --> 00:04:03,600 +Let them handle all that for you. + +108 +00:04:03,816 --> 00:04:05,150 +That's software-as-a-service. + +109 +00:04:08,783 --> 00:04:10,466 +Generally, the allure is that it's a lower + +110 +00:04:10,466 --> 00:04:12,650 +startup cost and outsource complexity. + +111 +00:04:13,316 --> 00:04:15,483 +Sure, you can't take your stuff elsewhere, but + +112 +00:04:15,483 --> 00:04:16,850 +as long as they never alter the deal, + +113 +00:04:17,066 --> 00:04:17,783 +the math works out. + +114 +00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,300 +The problem is, as ever, conflicting incentives. + +115 +00:04:21,850 --> 00:04:23,050 +You want to build a thing that makes + +116 +00:04:23,050 --> 00:04:24,966 +money elsewhere, but the platform wants to make + +117 +00:04:24,966 --> 00:04:25,616 +money from you. + +118 +00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:29,250 +So if you want to connect technologies, build + +119 +00:04:29,250 --> 00:04:31,550 +off each other, of course the platform wants + +120 +00:04:31,550 --> 00:04:32,750 +to jump in the way and charge you + +121 +00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:33,100 +for it. + +122 +00:04:34,116 --> 00:04:35,683 +That's what it does. + +123 +00:04:37,116 --> 00:04:39,566 +Notice, once a platform owner has its hooks + +124 +00:04:39,566 --> 00:04:42,066 +in you, you own less and less. + +125 +00:04:43,183 --> 00:04:45,466 +In the past, there have been game mods + +126 +00:04:45,466 --> 00:04:47,383 +that spawned genres of video games. + +127 +00:04:47,983 --> 00:04:49,500 +You'd better believe that if you try that + +128 +00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,900 +again, the game's publisher will be taking ownership + +129 +00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,783 +of that idea from you, thank you very + +130 +00:04:53,783 --> 00:04:54,200 +much. + +131 +00:04:55,066 --> 00:04:58,566 +Twitter users, or twits, or ex-people, have + +132 +00:04:58,566 --> 00:05:00,666 +been complaining about how it's dead, for real + +133 +00:05:00,666 --> 00:05:02,716 +this time, for the majority of its existence. + +134 +00:05:03,316 --> 00:05:05,966 +A constant cycle of the platform finding new + +135 +00:05:05,966 --> 00:05:08,850 +ways to suck, people threatening to leave, and + +136 +00:05:08,850 --> 00:05:09,683 +then not leaving. + +137 +00:05:10,350 --> 00:05:12,950 +Now, realistically, Twitter is no stranger to jokes + +138 +00:05:12,950 --> 00:05:15,500 +and hyperbole about leaving the hell site forever. + +139 +00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:19,316 +If you're a Twitter executive, the message is + +140 +00:05:19,316 --> 00:05:19,666 +clear. + +141 +00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,200 +People will accept whatever you do to them, + +142 +00:05:22,466 --> 00:05:23,650 +as long as you're slow enough. + +143 +00:05:25,866 --> 00:05:27,350 +YouTube has the same pattern. + +144 +00:05:27,350 --> 00:05:30,533 +Its history is a litany of shifting creators' + +145 +00:05:30,716 --> 00:05:33,766 +Adsense money over to copyright squatters, while encouraging + +146 +00:05:33,766 --> 00:05:35,266 +worse and worse content. + +147 +00:05:36,416 --> 00:05:39,166 +Twitch, the company built on South Korean StarCraft + +148 +00:05:39,166 --> 00:05:41,600 +streamers, which pulled out of Korea because it's + +149 +00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,216 +too expensive, might as well send everyone a + +150 +00:05:44,216 --> 00:05:46,050 +handwritten note to say, leave our platform. + +151 +00:05:47,350 --> 00:05:47,850 +No one will. + +152 +00:05:48,916 --> 00:05:50,400 +It's a classic problem. + +153 +00:05:50,866 --> 00:05:53,333 +On YouTube, people view Rumble as a place + +154 +00:05:53,333 --> 00:05:55,050 +filled with undesirable exiles. + +155 +00:05:55,366 --> 00:05:57,116 +To be fair, there's plenty. + +156 +00:05:58,116 --> 00:06:00,633 +Twitchists and ex-people make up reasons for + +157 +00:06:00,633 --> 00:06:03,500 +themselves to view the users of their platform's + +158 +00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:05,350 +rivals as their own enemies. + +159 +00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:08,800 +When you think of yourself not as a + +160 +00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,116 +creator of static video content, but rather as + +161 +00:06:12,116 --> 00:06:15,816 +a YouTuber, YouTube rests on that loyalty. + +162 +00:06:16,333 --> 00:06:18,650 +That's way easier than doing anything to implement + +163 +00:06:18,650 --> 00:06:20,516 +moderation features like what Twitch has. + +164 +00:06:21,066 --> 00:06:22,450 +All they have to do is let you + +165 +00:06:22,450 --> 00:06:24,816 +tell yourself there's barbarians at the gates. + +166 +00:06:26,350 --> 00:06:29,016 +If you have the inexplicable addiction to Twitter + +167 +00:06:29,016 --> 00:06:31,133 +that the world seems to have, you won't + +168 +00:06:31,133 --> 00:06:33,966 +dream of being able to post 1024 characters + +169 +00:06:33,966 --> 00:06:35,416 +at a time, like we've been doing on + +170 +00:06:35,416 --> 00:06:36,733 +Mastodon this whole time. + +171 +00:06:37,366 --> 00:06:39,316 +Or you might say something dumb like this. + +172 +00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,616 +Good luck finding a site that isn't owned + +173 +00:06:41,616 --> 00:06:43,516 +by an ethically compromised billionaire. + +174 +00:06:44,516 --> 00:06:47,950 +Without realizing that a communication network doesn't have + +175 +00:06:47,950 --> 00:06:50,133 +to be centralized under one man's portfolio. + +176 +00:06:51,466 --> 00:06:53,566 +So you don't have to weigh the choice + +177 +00:06:53,566 --> 00:06:56,350 +of ditching your entire social circle against contributing + +178 +00:06:56,350 --> 00:06:58,266 +to the property of someone leaning hard into + +179 +00:06:58,266 --> 00:06:58,816 +fascism. + +180 +00:07:00,616 --> 00:07:03,133 +What if, rather than platform barons trying to + +181 +00:07:03,133 --> 00:07:05,366 +take everything they can from you, they spent + +182 +00:07:05,366 --> 00:07:07,300 +that effort trying to take from each other? + +183 +00:07:07,766 --> 00:07:09,000 +We could federate them together. + +184 +00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:11,333 +But I'll spare you a second episode of + +185 +00:07:11,333 --> 00:07:12,150 +Fediverse Evangelism. + +186 +00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,566 +You know what was federated well before the + +187 +00:07:15,566 --> 00:07:16,433 +Fediverse was built? + +188 +00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:17,416 +Email. + +189 +00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:20,016 +Servers talk to each other, and your email + +190 +00:07:20,016 --> 00:07:21,916 +address is you at server. + +191 +00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:23,933 +Amazing. + +192 +00:07:25,066 --> 00:07:26,450 +There's a reason that happened. + +193 +00:07:26,933 --> 00:07:29,133 +Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to + +194 +00:07:29,133 --> 00:07:29,900 +use email. + +195 +00:07:30,516 --> 00:07:32,666 +To help them understand, they were told it's + +196 +00:07:32,666 --> 00:07:33,366 +like writing a letter. + +197 +00:07:34,666 --> 00:07:37,316 +So manager types the world over decided that + +198 +00:07:37,316 --> 00:07:39,333 +the custom in email land is to add + +199 +00:07:39,333 --> 00:07:43,100 +pointless bullshit before and after every single message. + +200 +00:07:52,366 --> 00:07:56,700 +Jonathan Doe, MD Esquire, Chief Assistant to the + +201 +00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,516 +Executive Administrative Assistant of Regional Internal Officers. + +202 +00:08:01,283 --> 00:08:02,016 +Hello, H. + +203 +00:08:02,183 --> 00:08:02,466 +Berger. + +204 +00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:04,916 +I hope this missive finds you well. + +205 +00:08:06,083 --> 00:08:09,566 +Tech Solutions Technology Solution, Bumfuck, Iowa. + +206 +00:08:10,150 --> 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house, hyper + +220 +00:08:50,450 --> 00:08:50,866 +-litigator! + +221 +00:08:53,550 --> 00:08:54,500 +Hello again, H. + +222 +00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:54,883 +Berger. + +223 +00:08:55,266 --> 00:08:57,600 +Thank you for sending me an electronic mail. + +224 +00:08:58,583 --> 00:09:00,166 +It has come to my attention that you + +225 +00:09:00,166 --> 00:09:02,116 +aren't using official company letterhead. + +226 +00:09:02,383 --> 00:09:05,366 +This is unprofessional and reflects poorly on our + +227 +00:09:05,366 --> 00:09:06,100 +corporate image. + +228 +00:09:06,666 --> 00:09:08,883 +Please rectify this immediately. + +229 +00:09:11,333 --> 00:09:12,916 +That's based on a true story. + +230 +00:09:13,450 --> 00:09:14,433 +A common one, surely. + +231 +00:09:15,016 --> 00:09:17,533 +Unfortunately, people think of that as a story + +232 +00:09:17,533 --> 00:09:20,833 +typical of email, and treat email accordingly. + +233 +00:09:21,450 --> 00:09:22,700 +But the technology is irrelevant. + +234 +00:09:23,133 --> 00:09:25,750 +That's a story typical of communication with soulless + +235 +00:09:25,750 --> 00:09:26,550 +business husks. + +236 +00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,850 +Nevertheless, rest in peace, email. + +237 +00:09:30,433 --> 00:09:31,466 +Greatness squandered. + +238 +00:09:33,566 --> 00:09:35,833 +You and I could send one-word emails. + +239 +00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:37,366 +We could email memes. + +240 +00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,066 +But its association with a workplace chains it + +241 +00:09:41,066 --> 00:09:42,300 +to miserable connotations.