Zephorah
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- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 14 hours ago:
I think it was 10? years ago when I grudgingly tried a kindle because it was so ridiculously cheap and the people around me loved theirs.
The Kindle was an Ad bomb. After engaging internet only, no TV, no ads, since, 2003? (Whenever xfiles, Buffy, DS9, and Firefly were done.) The kindle hit like a sledgehammer with the native ads system. I returned the failed tablet to Amazon.
I don’t know how people live with that level of ad consumption and I grew up with TV commercials. Libby on iPad mini. It’s fine.
- Comment on Steady 1 day ago:
Doesn’t even have to be a doctor. An ED or ICU nurse would cover most needs.
- Comment on Steady 2 days ago:
This is why most medical dramas are irritating.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 days ago:
At this point, they’ve become another flat earther movement.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 days ago:
If those were the ideals, the Kimmel and Colbert firings never would’ve happened.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 days ago:
Red Note is cool in that it does give you more perspective, interacting more directly with the people of China over what is said about the country as a whole.
It’s not my thing and neither is TikTok. I’ve downloaded neither.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 6 days ago:
It’s alive due to Messenger and Marketplace.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 6 days ago:
Red Note. You can say what you like about the USA, but you can’t criticize China or show skin.
- Comment on Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize 1 week ago:
So that’s it, Israel and the United States are just full bore reality isn’t reality and anyone disagreeing with my reality should be silenced.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 1 week ago:
The man swims in toxic waste and has dead worms in his brain. I don’t think a little shouting is going to hurt him.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 1 week ago:
That is how it works. Look at what happened to BioWare under EA. The Sims. Arkane under Microsoft.
- Comment on Know your place 1 week ago:
Getting a lot of memes with errors like this lately.
- Comment on Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally 1 week ago:
Social contagion is real.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 2 weeks ago:
So it’s all going to plan.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 weeks ago:
I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 weeks ago:
I think it was a joke. A little levity in the midst of all this chaos and intentional hardship.
Yes, the deal with dairy farmers drinking the unpasteurized milk from their cows daily is that it’s consumed within 24hrs and then replaced with the next days milk.
RFK is a dipshit and MAGA is likely running with him for two reasons. Cutting FDA regs, insurance policing, fluoride, and vaccines save money. (Put another way, it keeps “their” money where it belongs, away from the working class.) It also thins the herd in the continuing decline of available resources while the planet fails.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 weeks ago:
I lol’d.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s like so many things. Sugar. Enjoyable on occasion or induced diabetes. Beer. One on occasion or alcoholism. Dating. Nurturing or controlling/manipulation/obsession. We’re fine until our baser natures take over.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
In addition, “short” forms, right down to the trite, terrible music, mimic TV ads of yore. (Maybe current too, idk. I don’t consume ads. I don’t have a TV, and when I do watch YT it’s on a PC with uBlock on.)
Basic Psych 101: people are drawn to the familiar. Are high shorts consumption individuals more likely to consume ads?
With everything we’ve said, it wouldn’t be so bad if it was light consumption, maybe with morning coffee, left off for the rest of the day, but instead there’s an insidious pattern I see at work. Do the work, rush back to a chair to thumb swipe up on a screen for the next 30min to an hour. Work, back to the seat for more low attention span crap, rinse/repeat, for an entire shift.
I’m old. If I try to watch shorts like that my brain feels like a cross between watching TV ads and like I’ve been working on busywork/bullshit homework worksheets from school back in the day. It’s an awful sensation, so I don’t do it. I can only speculate that my crystallized wiring has a different format that isn’t so compatible with this new consumption pattern.
This, our discussion, fits more with long form discussion boards in academia, but as part of a graffiti wall. With bullshit, screaming, and bots filling in the gaps. The attention span problems aren’t so much an issue, depending on how you consume, but the dopamine bit is the same. There’s also a partial reinforcement rewards schedule there but that’s another discussion.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
It’s more than that, the anxiety and lack of practice in real, that includes the awful, social encounters growing up creates an environment in which those kids, now adults, have incredible anxiety for social engagement. It’s almost like we created our own Black Mirror world by putting a screen buffer up in front of our children’s faces starting as early as 2yrs.
Helicoptering. Planning the child’s week to enrich them, scheduling play dates with no organic initiative by the child, and inadvertently dictating a script so when that ordered script and mommy umbrella are torn away at college, near panic level anxiety hits. And why wouldn’t it? No practice at deciding for oneself or engaging with real people with the full range of normal human emotions. No chaperoned play dates or protections by mommy when a bad grade happens any more.
But there is a haze right now of sorting out true ADHD from the lack of focus and attention fostered by screens. Which we do want to do, because it’s still reparable if we can start on therapeutic work no later than the early 20s.
Again, yes, with social anxiety being confused with autism. Same deal.
Of course both autism and ADHD are very real, which of course I need to spell out in no uncertain terms because this is Lemmy, but the upbringing of the latest crop of kids also, at the same time, can foster symptoms of both and that needs to be sorted through. It’s not right or healthy to assume either way on this one.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
If you watched Stranger Things, the depiction of Nancy going to work and being relegated to making coffee for the boys instead of being taken seriously at an actual job is an iconic representation of women’s struggle in the workplace. Remember, women were only allowed to have their own bank accounts, credit cards, and home loans as legally protected assets, starting in the late 1970s. We were deemed more incompetent, and more wards of our husbands in those respects. Inertia of those notions remained even after the legality changed. That whole bit in Delores Claiborne, where her husband finds her “private”, “personal”, only her name on it bank account and just empties it: real. (That is what RBG had a deciding vote on btw, what gave her such credit back in the day, changing financial freedoms for women to match those of men.)
Yes, this may seem a little focused on women, but it’s a significant piece of the “things were better” push on the right. The right did grow, in part, as a reaction to the loss of the more controlled, traditional, “kept” female. It’s important to keep a full visual of what going back could mean. Roe has already fallen.
Moving away from screen time to more face to face is good. Doesn’t mean texting is bad, it’s fantastic, amazing even, how easy it is to communicate. I love it. But I still drive 10-15min to sit down in a living room face to face with people. I feel little to no stress when disagreement, argument, or even anger occurs. Facing the normal range of human emotion in another doesn’t make me want to hide.
Even just moving back to more long form media would help stop the destructive, anxiety perpetuating, focus reducing rewiring happening. YouTube statistics are now saying anything over 10 minutes is doomed to die based on viewer preference. 9 minutes or less or gtfo. Shorts are quickly taking over and perpetually rewiring people on the daily.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
This all or nothing, either or bullshit needs to stop being perpetuated. It is why we have such an inured two party system that effectively makes their followers dance each election.
The tactic here is exactly the one used by Jordan Peterson, mixing truth with garbage for the sake of manipulating an audience into his way of thinking. And it works.
We did stay out in groups of friends, face to face, until it was dark out. We also used destinations like malls, pizza places, and water as an excuse to do so. Cars were a big deal, a means to get there without parents. Summertime involved backyard bonfires in states without burn bans. Uninvited friends and neighbors would randomly show up. Being occupied socially sometimes meant sitting with other people saying nothing, a little bored, doing nothing other than sitting in a room with others, sometimes listening to uninteresting people or TV. But that was ok because you were with friends, spending time.
The reality is there are brain changes due to screens and the invasive format of the “short”. Literal re-writing at the level of how neurons talk to each other. Shortened attention spans. Increased anxiety. Increased impatience. Inability to focus. Worse, inability to go all in on a single point of focus, for hours to create, produce, invent, or simply develop thinking skills. Increased anxiety and lack of coping in interpersonal, not even relationships, but interaction such that this idea of sitting around with groups of people, deliberately, as a way to use free time appears weird and fictional.
That said, the world wasn’t necessarily better. Just watching Wills mom on Stranger Things trying to make a phone call when her phone burned out was painful. It is nice to have a map with a “You Are Here” star wherever you go. No more perpetual cloud of cigarette smoke with all white walls and decor perpetually stained beige or yellow with nicotine sludge from cigarettes. Women’s lib had (past tense) made more progress away from rape culture and towards reproductive freedom. Less racism. And so on.
Articles like these, similar to political pundits, seek to muddy what is true by using truth to spread lies.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 5 weeks ago:
Consider the luffa next. It’s a squash of sorts that grows on a vine. The inner matrix of the large zucchini looking fruits is the luffa sponge. Zone 10.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
Health care here still uses fax machines.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
So much for Europe being more progressive. They’re shilling for corporate on par with the states.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
You don’t need graphic updates, those power ranger body suits are great as is. Nothing says style like a bright yellow avian evolved alien.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
ME, as a trilogy, plays on most of the tropes in scifi. The voice acting is pretty great too, barring the Resident Evil 1 level Liara in ME1.
And then Bioware lost all capacity to write dialogue stronger than a wet, overcooked spaghetti noodle.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
Thank you for widening this perspective. I had no idea, but it fits.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
I didn’t realize the schools were using Run, Hide, Fight. That is the same policy for hospital staff in the event of an active shooter. Maddening.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
What a terrible choice of words. They’re immediately assigning political placement and party to the idea of avoiding AI use instead of appealing to all of humanity on this topic.
Plus, it’s a silly metaphor.