Religion is just the systematized narrative that emerges or evolves to justify the underlying class structure, which in this case is settler-colonialism.

ChatGPT -> GPT -> GiPiTee -> gipity

I have never used Periphery but this seems fine.

Open source is great as far as empowering individuals with the knowledge of what code their machines run, and opening avenues for collaboration among diverse programmers.

It’s also been a highly productive commons-maker that for-profit corporations can freely extract value from, often turning around and using some of their profits to undermine the open source movement (not to mention supporting war crimes and whatnot).

Everyone deserves to be paid for their labor, but especially if it’s being used in closed-source profit-generating software.

This is incredibly cool science that I desperately wish was being discovered and advanced after the downfall of capitalism and imperialism.

As it is, it’s gonna result in really useful and novel cures for rich westerners and possibly targeted plagues for the rest of us.

If you have too much money and/or have a 3D printer, svalboard is always the answer. Just about everything else feels like it’s iterating on vestigial principles from typewriters.

Svalboard is peak keyboard design.

They’re too integrated into the US government to really want to, but they certainly could. They have a lot of powerful institutions and control throughout the Mor[mon Corri]dor. Not enough to contend with the US at its current strength, though. And Iran would have absolutely no bearing on it, I’m having a hard time imagining the reasoning behind that.

If the US were to balkanize at some point in the future, the Mormon church would likely be one of the primary contending powers in the western states.

In reality genAI isn’t all that novel when it comes to disinformation. People have been tricked into believing stuff for centuries with far less convincing tech. Editing and framing have been useful for manipulating viewers for as long as the medium has existed.

Step back a bit from the title question, and when you see a video, ask yourself “to what degree should I treat this as useful information?”

Being real or AI-gen is part of the critical examination, but just because something isn’t generated doesn’t mean it’s a good representation of reality. Say, for example, you scroll across a video of an ethnic minority being belligerent on the subway. If it’s AI, you know it’s not real. But even if it’s definitely real, what does it mean to you?

Well, it means that for 30 seconds at some undefined point in time, at some undisclosed location, some anonymous person with supposedly notable physical or linguistic or whatever characteristics appeared to have been belligerent. If you’re a scientist trying to define reality, this is a statistically-nonexistent sample. If you’re the average Twitter user, though, it threatens to plug into a mental network of symbols and signifiers that approximate reality. And this is a problem whether the video is real or staged or edited or generated: it functionally isn’t real-- isn’t a useful representation of reality-- so the degree to which it’s internalized is a problem.

What about denigrating politicians? Again, I think genAI may slightly flavor this problem, but isn’t an operative variable. Sometimes evidence of corruption is enough to take down a politician, sometimes evidence of outright crimes against children and humanity won’t do it. Sometimes obvious lies or manipulations are enough to take one down. Sometimes a CIA-produced sex-tape with an actor lookalike just makes people think you’re cool instead of making them turn on you.

They’re suffering from a high concentration of Hitler particles.

Unfortunately there’s only one cure

Feel like pure shit just want it back

Most likely, yeah. All you have to do is find some object that you hadn’t observed previously, which leaves evidence of having existed. You come across a snail moving across the sidewalk with a slime trail behind it. Either (1) the snail and slime trail blipped into existence just to serve your perception or (2) the snail was there making a trail prior to your having perceived it. You can reasonably assume the latter is more plausible.

You might enjoy Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. It’s difficult but worthwhile. It sort of reconstructs epistemology/consciousness from the most basic fundamentals, starting with sense.

What more is there to cover? We’ve known most of the names involved for years already and very little has come of it.

Yeah fighting fascism is the same as fascism!

Childish, liberal nonsense

Those on power never have and never will peacefully give up their power.

I acknowledge it was used within rightwing spaces, even that they had influence over its evolution. But your model implies “pilling” was ever wholly appropriated by rightwing culture, which would require it to have died out in other contexts. And I’m arguing it never did, that it maintained regular usage outside of that context and thus can’t be assumed to be a rightwing signifier.

Even during the blip in time where specifically redpill was associated with manosphere pickup culture, bluepill’s meaning evolved as the counter to it (for those that were exposed to the trend; both terms’ general meanings never entirely vanished), and shortly after there was the ironic/postironic re-appropration of the new form of red pill. So even then one couldn’t assume a person’s ideology solely from usage of x-pill terminology.

But regardless of whether right-wing culture actually successfully appropriated the terminology a decade ago, it since has maintained widespread usage and evolved on its own in quasi-mainstream online spaces. So to claim the OP is mistakenly signaling some sort of incel ideology is questionable at best.

“Woke” is somewhat similar in that its common definition was renegotiated by rightwing appropriation. But in this case the word largely lost any original meaning as it became a floating signifier for rightwing rage. And even in this case, it’d need to be usage of the term as a pejorative to be considered rightwing signaling, usage of the term itself isn’t necessarily so, per se (e.g. people reclaiming the word as pro-woke or using it ironically like dark-woke).

This article is pretty shoddy. It acknowledges that “red/blue pill” comes from the Matrix but then acts like incels were the only ones using it and pushing its evolution as a suffix. When in reality it developed across the whole internet, not just within incel communities. Oldass encyclopedia being out of touch.

“Blackpilled” specifically basically just means pessimistic, doomer, etc. I see it used in this context on a regular basis with no association to incel, rightwing, or misogynist ideologies.

It certainly has its own unique meaning within those communities, but it’s very clear that’s not how OP was using it. To argue they were misusing the term you’d have to prove that most people here associate “x-pill” terminology with incels, rather than directly with The Matrix and/or how the terminology is commonly used on social media by regular people.

I can excuse fascism, but I draw the line at treason and grifting!

Turn your smart TV into a dumb TV by disconnecting it from WiFi and plugging the laptop in. No more (less) tracking and spyware, no more ads.

Lmao there was no hopping whatsoever, what the fuck are you talking about?

That comment was highly focused and directly addressed yours. You just don’t know shit lol

I sold you a sandwich. You are now my servant.

Yeah I’ve seen a doctor like 3 times in my adult life maybe.

The cynical turn of phrase people do is infuriating too

“Healthcare plz”

“Okay we’ll guarantee you have health insurance” [now force everyone to pay the companies that are partially responsible for fucking everything]

I don’t want health insurance I want health care