Man, do I not miss reddit one single fucking bit. I have never once looked back since leaving in the first wave of APImageddon or whatever we’re calling that. Every post I see or article I read just validates that decision.

reddit has always been risky in one way or another. When I first joined in 2013, it was 4chan-risky Now it’s Facebook-risky, which is honestly much more ultimately harmful and nefarious than 4chan-risky, even if 4chan and facebook of today share a lot of the same trolls.

Billionaires want to herd us and all of our communications into these controlled networks for a number of nefarious reasons, but the reason that matters most to you and I right now is that they know that people need to communicate in order to coordinate, in order to stand up to oligarchy. Facebook isn’t going to let people coordinate a general strike on its platform, and neither is reddit, or youtube, or any of these totally captured networks.

We need to own our comms, which means that the fediverse itself isn’t sufficient either.

So say it with me: Meshtastic

You need a cat.

Rear Window

The Princess Bride

Joe vs the Volcano

Idiocracy

There he goes, off to write his hit song, Alone In My Principles.

No one knows.

Red meat for the base in desperation.

It is darkly funny, on multiple levels, that thus far the best impediment to the Mechanazis is their own dumb fucking incompetence.

They certainly are not being thwarted by an “opposition” that is cowardly and craven, if not outright complicit.

That smug smirk says it all.

One third of me gave up a whole weekend! If that ain’t love I don’t know WHAT is!

I’m barely old enough to remember government cheese.

We also already have multiple stories of people believing that God is literally speaking to them through chatGPT. I was raised young earth creationist and it is easy for me to slip back into that mindset and imagine that of course Adonai could choose to speak to me directly through chatGPT. He who has ears to hear, let him hear, and shit.

The worst part of this is that evangelical Christians in particular are just mentally primed to be manipulated by AI.

Mark my words. AI is going to make evangelicals/christian nationalist even weirder and scarier

Nestle can go fuck itself with a rusty rake.

The family tried to keep the stories of her “night hunts” suppressed, but the truth wants to be free.

Good song though.

Years ago, when this policy was first being contemplated, someone at google plugged a number, likely larger than this, into a spreadsheet analyzing the cost/benefit of spying on their customers.

This is just post-activation operating expense from their perspective.

Heaven as a persistent idea in modern society is just a cope that rich people feed poor people through religion. It’s a structure for us to accept our miserable earthly existence in anticipation of future wealth so that the rich can enjoy all of the trappings of heaven on earth.

It’s just metaphysical trickle down economics.

I’m sad there isn’t a heaven for them to be excluded from.

Their brown wax seems to be selling well enough. Not sure why they would change it up now.

This is 100% correct. Evangelicals Christianity, never a beacon of rationality or clarity of doctrine, has now been fully captured by MAGA. There is no functional difference between Christian Nationalism and Evangelical American Christianity.

I worry this is only the beginning. I genuinely believe that Evangelicals will also embrace AI and incorporate it into their beliefs somehow. I also believe Trump will be divinized before his term is up - at least within Evangelical Christian Nationalism.