I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.

yes, including social media. People think adopting Donald Trump methods of dehumanizing those you disagree with, Donald Trump Twitter-think and Tweet-length mental attitudes is actually addressing the problem… in reality, it is joining in with the bonfires of goodness. Instead of a “we are under siege mentality” of posting a thread to the top of every social media platform every 6 hours since 2015 when it was clear Donald Trump and Putin wanted to fulfill their “Conservative International 2013” politician aims, people have just mocked and gone along with the total mockery media values of MAGA / Donald Trump Twitter-tweeting thinking.

I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.

People are entirely unable to defend and resist absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd "jokes’, they all end up joining in / jumping on the bandwagon with the mocking and mockery.

Neil Postman was correct in 1985: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

Happens here on Lemmy too. Seems like that’s how the Internet of today works

That’s why I’m pointing it out: twitter behavior has taken over the White House and all social media platforms.

that’s the point, it isn’t just Reddit users who mimic Donald Trump.

This is all spelled out in 2014: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html

They are all mimicking Surkov governing, Russia.

And now, our education system is simply a hint of a shadow of its former self.

The issue is not under age 18 children in schools. The issue is 78 year old adults and age 71 RFK Jr, etc.

Fox News is the true teacher of society, not school classrooms. That’s Neil Postman’s point. Elon Musk X is the true place people learn in USA. Not from classrooms, that shit all gets replaced with more entertaining content.

Donald Trump video

Poorly educated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

essentially that is what mythology has been for humanity. Too bad now we just let advertising borrow the techniques without education the population how it works.

I hope people share the positive hits of CSAM and see how widespread the problem is…

DRAMTIC EDIT: the records lemmy_safety_local_storage.py identifies, not the images! @[email protected] seems to think it “sounds like” I am ACTIVELY encouraging the spreading of child pornography images… NO! I mean audit files, such as timestamps, the account that uploaded, etc. Once you have the timestamp, the nginx logs from a lemmy server should help identify the IP address.

Steve Jobs main claim was that visual design and walling people into marriage of software + hardware as a package was important. And based on the loyalty, profits, he seemed to have focused on the right thing.

As quick as Apple could, they went away from the kit Apple I into expensive unique-looking systems. The Lisa being US$9,995 (equivalent to well over $30,000 in 2023)… NeXT was pretty much the same high-end vision.

Bill Gates bailing out Apple so there could be two main companies like Pepsi and Coke, I really don’t get why people don’t criticize that. Microsoft was ahead in the Smartphone area long before the iPhone, if they had not bailed out Apple…

shame.

Yha, I feel it too. I wish the code were able to cope with some internal performance problems, but so far it isn’t there. Have a good day.

it’s exclusive problem to lemmy.world’s DDOS prevention attempts as far as I know, so no idea.

But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo…

I find the same attitude holds for developers who like to hang out in real-time Matrix chat and don’t seem to use Lemmy itself very much and things like code blocks ruining greater-than and less-than slip right into release without much concern.

I’ve found there is a culture within Lemmy developers and long-time operators to discuss in Discord or Matrix chat instead of “eating their own dogfood” and using Lemmy itself to openly discuss Lemmy technical and project issues. These chat services are legendary for keeping things away from search engines and newcomers getting up to speed. Lemmy itself isn’t nearly as search-engine friendly as Reddit was traditionally, it seems like feedback needs to be given as to how important it is to keep things about Lemmy in the eyes of those who actually use Lemmy…

Thoughts?

I haven’t tested with 0.18.3 to see if new features were added to front-end lemmy-ui, but based on my experience with earlier 0.18 releases… the “Sign Up” page of Lemmy needs to have a custom message added for each instance basically introducing the instance from the admins. The experience is pretty bad… on my instance I have registration closed and lemmy-ui still just presents “Sign Up” links and even the form. I think it’s pretty important to get this in the back-end now so that the evolving independent front-ends all support the custom message shown above/below the Sign Up form…

Seems like something that shouldn’t take a lot of coding to get added (admin screen has place to create custom messages like “Legal”) that would be a good lemmy network-wide focus on the newcomer experience.

Fox allowing him hours a day of direct speech…

Once Elon Musk returns him to Twitter, we will have the “bar and grill of all the world’s journalist” for the past 15 years become a black hole of old news story history. The symbolic tactics that are under play are massive. Reality has been rejected on a massive scale via electric media… Dans un sens, c’est le système entier qui, par sa fragilité interne, prête main-forte à l’action initiale. Plus le système se concentre mondialement, ne constituant à la limite qu’un seul réseau

Trump followers can’t even see how the former mayor of NYC has lost his mind. They meet at 4 seasons gardening.

July 30 comments when from 7.1 million to 9.9 million. In a single day?

they are called communities here

lemmy.ml is now getting some lemmy.world content