JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image [GRAPHIC PHOTO] 1 week ago:
Onnen [the presumed killer], who had joined the Nazi party before Hitler took power in 1933, came from an educated family and in his youth enjoyed “travelling, studying languages”, Matthäus said.
One interpretation is that evil is banal. Personally I’m not sure this even took evil. All you need do is convince someone of the truth of a narrative. Humans are storytelling creatures.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 1 week ago:
YSK: this is clearly entirely jurisdiction-dependent and we don’t all live in the USA.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 1 week ago:
Unfalsifiable conjecture. Contradicts everything the people involved say themselves. Including transparently good actors like some of the board members.
Assumes bad faith, basically. Which ironically is one of the founding ills of social media.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ll inconveniently only have it online when I’m at home
So this is like a dial-up website where you have to hope that the webmaster’s in?
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
Sure. But social media is becoming a nightmare. It’s literally destroying democracy. As things stand, I’m not even convinced the fediversal version is an improvement. And if it’s not, then personally I don’t care how many people are pushed away. In as far as technical fixes are possible to the myriad problems of social media, I believe these might be a couple of them. That’s all I’m saying.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
Sure. But in theory, with (slightly) better resources, this would be my solution.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
On posting, crawl the link and cache its content. Compare with quote on the basis of some generous threshold of similarity.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
do I just want to shit on ai in the comments
Laudable honesty. The problem is that other people have to read the shit.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
But to vote without engaging with the actual content is just to “sort” posts based on feelings. Who cares?
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
It’s pretty clear no one read the linked article
This is the root problem. Upvoting and downvoting headlines on the basis of vibes. It adds zero value. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, not least the upvoters and (especially) downvoters themselves, who get nothing out of it but the tiniest of vacuous dopamine hits. It’s the original sin of social media.
My preferred solutions:
- no voting at all without a registered click on the linked article
- no commenting at all without including a verifiable quote from the linked article
Deep-seated problems call for radical solutions. Both of these are technically feasible.
- Comment on Farewell to the fediverse 4 weeks ago:
Some interesting thoughts - and questions - here. Seems you posted them in the wrong place, given the paltry response. Or possibly at the wrong time (i.e. 6 hours after the herd had moved on, a perennial problem with social media).
It isn’t based in XML, and modern devs don’t want to use XML. As I’m not a coder, I cant say how big an influence this has, but from what I have seen it seems to be a substantial factor. Can anyone explain why?
XML is space-inefficient with lots of redundancy, and therefore considered to be ugly. Coders tend to have tidy minds so these things take on an importance that they don’t really merit. It’s also just fashion: markup, like XML and HTML, is a thing of the 90s, so using them is the coder equivalent of wearing MC Hammer pants.
- Comment on YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency 1 month ago:
This kind of purity policing is deeply offputting IMO. And certainly won’t help build federated social media.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 months ago:
This is a decent point. Ignore the inane downvotes you’re getting for simply expressing your opinion in a polite and good-faith manner.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Personally I share your take, but you’re not helping the cause by insulting people.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Between what the law says and what actually happens, there is a yawning gulf. It’s the same in basically all jurisdictions where there are animal-welfare laws. The meat industry is powerful and consumers are unrelenting in their clamor for cheap meat. With such incentives, the weakest link is always going to be animals, which by definition have no voice.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
This is exactly my mental response to this kind of story. Total hypocrisy. Try to ignore the pushback, cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
- Comment on Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution 2 months ago:
The title of the magnum opus of renowned historian Orlando Figes, who has written multiple books on the Russian Revolution, is eloquent: “A People’s Tragedy”.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s true but in this scenario it’s your fault, not theirs.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 2 months ago:
Every social-media platform strips EXIF metadata before publishing the photo.
So the issue is the trustworthiness of the social-media platform itself. Personally I always strip the metadata before sharing anything anywhere.
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 2 months ago:
A nuanced take in response to casually lobbed accusations of Nazism? How come you haven’t been banned?
- Comment on I love Lemmy 2 months ago:
Perhaps it depends on community but my experience has been pretty uniform: brigading, comment removal, bans, for expressing ideas that (according to opinion polls) are shared by literally most of the population. At first I was a bit shocked, now I know just to avoid politics, it’s not worth the trouble. If you’ve had a difference experience then good for you.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 2 months ago:
Try expressing a centrist or - heaven forbid (I haven’t actually tried this one) moderate conservative - position on a hot-button subject and see if you still feel that way.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 2 months ago:
Just don’t try to debate politics unless you already subscribe to the prevailing groupthink. In fairness, that’s true of any social-media forum, and the corporate ones have other problems on top.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
That’s helpful. These estimates do tend to vary a bit depending on assumptions (type of plane or car, what occupancy etc). The 2t I quoted was slightly high. My point was that there’s no other way to emit 1 tonne in 6 hours.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
Apart from the methane problem, all livestock farming takes, by definition, a massive amount more land than arable farming to produce the same amount of food. On a stressed planet of 9 billion people, there simply is not enough land to feed everyone with red meat.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
First, well done for taking it seriously and doing your bit.
The point of the post (I think) is simply to illustrate that certain actions are much, much more important than others. Anecdotally, there are still plenty of people out there who believe that, say, turning off a couple of (low-energy) lights, or “recycling” a plastic bag, are somehow major good deeds that allow them to kick their feet up and celebrate with a steak. There’s still way too much ignorance about all this, IMO.
In reality (as you seem to understand), some gestures are far more important than others. Ditching red meat (and dairy) really is a big deal. Everyone who claims to care about this problem should at least consider doing it.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
This is a nice articulation of nihilism.
The paradox being that the attitude is both justified and… certain to only make the problem worse.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
lasts much longer which is important as a single household
This is an often-overlooked argument for veganism. If you plan carefully, you literally don’t need a fridge.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
Roughly true, but you’re eliding a very, very problematic activity into “travel”: aviation.
Per kilometer, flying is pretty carbon intensive (about the same as driving - basically: the extra efficiency of being packed into a tin can is offset by exponentially higher wind resistance at high speed). The problem is that airplanes allow you to burn up massive distances really quickly.
A single transatlantic flight will blow a 2-ton hole in your personal carbon footprint. That’s 10-20% of an average European’s annual footprint - or 100% of a sustainable footprint. For anyone who flies more than once a year (i.e. likely a bunch of people here), cutting down on flying is likely to be the single biggest thing you can do for the climate.
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 3 months ago:
Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.