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• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 09:34am

  Like you say, their rugged individualism is bullshit. Of all the people in society, they are the most reliant on others, which is why I bring it up: the commenter I was replying to doesn't understand how individuals work with other to create a communal effort. He simply and hypocritically just wants his, even if he has to lie, steal, and work to destroy others to get it. Self-determination is a cornerstone of being free, though. So that makes them authoritarian trash, engaged in violent groupthink, which by the standards of America's ideal values is traitorous in addition to simply being anti-human. Sadly we have a long history of that kind of thinking in this country, but it doesn't make it right to think Christianity should determine the basis for everything. Since communism was brought up, it makes sense that modern conservatives love the post-Soviet Putin, because deep in their hearts they all want to be little Stalins. They want to rule over everyone and control their minds, and work them to death if they prefer actual free thought or self-determination. This is why they imagine terrifying FEMA camps and such, because that's the kind of concentration camp they want us in. After all, that's what ICE (and etc) already does to perfectly innocent people who are simply coming to America because of the promise of freedom and a better future, to work hard as is the supposed American way, and to flee the violence and depredation that America probably inflicted on their home country through some kind of corporate and/or government vampirism.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 09:22am

  Exactly; I don't think the commenter I was replying to deserves to be elevated to the level of what Malcolm X is talking about; he is not a true ally nor an accomplice in seeking justice. I'm glad you caught my reference.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 09:18am

  Yes, that is an inherent trait of all for-profit corporations. That's a major flaw in capitalism, because that greed undermines everything. Including the services these corporations provide.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 08:28am

  The 'I am the prodigal libertarian cuck who has returned to bleat conspiracy theories at you' vibe really gave it away.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 08:26am

  I'll take Reporters Without Borders' word that it's not a paranoid fantasy, then. Well, I'm pretty sure none of us are Vietnamese cyber-troops here, but I could be wrong. I have no way of knowing. Still, as far as I know that makes it really unlikely that the entire readership of TechDirt is communist internet trolls. I think if anyone was simply from Vietnam and/or a Communist they would have no issue in pointing that out about themselves, though. Nobody I've talked to on the internet who espoused communism was remotely shy about it, quite the opposite. Which... I guess everyone needs a hobby.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 08:20am

  Does their ability to compete solve anything when the telecom industry has repeatedly been broken up them glommed back together over time and colluded where it hasn't? Why should they have any power at all unless there's no profit motive involved? And in that case cooperation becomes more useful than competition for... what?

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 08:03am

  I guess we could all be 'Vietnamese cyber-troops'... is that a real thing or just a paranoid isolationist fantasy? It's actually the first I've heard about Vietnamese troll farms, but I don't already know every.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 08:00am

  There are as many ways to look at communism as there are people thinking about it, I guess... really all 'commie' is now is an empty pejorative directed at people who the replier doesn't find to be fascistic enough. A bit like 'woke', but outdated; which I guess squares with Matthew M Bennett's claim of coming out of a decade long time capsule, if only he'd go back in for another ten decades.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 07:47am

  I'm pretty sure communism has shitty internet too, bub. This is about individuals working together to build something better instead of getting the shaft by greedy shitlords who want to provide less for a great cost to the consumer. It doesn't matter if you're a communist or a capitalist if you engage in the kind of groupthink that you do. People are smarter than that, as well as more capable. Cooperating with others enables individual effort and talent and scale, which doesn't depend on a government or a corporation. That's self-determination, not being weak and complacent like you are.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 07:42am

  Pretty sure 'of the moment' implies a limited term such as 'short' (what is short, a few day? a week? a decade?, but also that these companies just find a new dictator to partner with once the current ones fail. They have no specific interest in these regimes other than their ability to do business profitably under them, they are amoral and greed-based organizations.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 07:38am

  Sounds like something something an insurrectionist boot-licker would say. Maybe you're right, since insurrection could at least have a redeeming quality if the insurrectionist was doing something to correct injustice like freeing slaves. Let's not sugar coat things like that, you guys are simply fascist terrorists who aren't intent on improving anything. You're not fixing anything, your not deconstructing things to anyone's benefit. And just because you goofy clowns continue to exist doesn't entitle you to any kind of funding. It does entitle everyone else to expect you aren't funded, though. You shouldn't profit off of your terrorism and crimes.

• On the post: Can AI Text Writers Help People Impacted By Copyright Law To Better Weigh In On Copyright?

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 07:23am

  It does! It confabulates totally incorrect details out of nothing in order to provide a simulation of what you're asking for in typical cadence for that type of content. It's still spewing out nonsense, but now that nonsense is slightly more convincing. So you probably will get those synonyms, but you'll have to fact-check and rewrite the entirely of everything it generates. People using it for research (why???) should be aware of this issue, because it may even generate totally fictional references in the proper formats. As one writer put it, it's basically just an advanced version of smartphone auto-suggest features. And while they may be able to suggest a likely outcome to a sentence, they don't actually 'know' anything. This is the same thing but scaled up to something that doesn't fall apart into apparent meaninglessness after a sentence or two. Teresa Kubacka had some interesting interactions with ChatGPT in that regard, and Charles Seife even had it write an obituary which displayed the same set of issues.

• On the post: Yes, Elon Musk Is Fucking Up Twitter; But No, The Government Has No Business Getting Involved

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 07:04am

  I'm pretty sure "well, it’s not unexpected" is just a way of saying "I expected this" with double-negatives. That is, it was expected. More importantly it's telling than whether it was unexpected or not. While it's really not new information, it's at least consistent shitbaggery.

• On the post: As Many Suspected, Elon’s Claims Of Jet Account Helping His Stalker Turned Out To Be Bogus

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 06:56am

  Wait, but gay men aren't "biologically wired to be boisterous, uncultured, and abusive"? Wouldn't it be easier for you to just say that about all men? Or is that too wide of a generalization for something based on an already dubious biologically-deterministic viewpoint? Stop worrying about who I think makes an 'effective or desirable partners or parents', it's creepy at best. Just keep your hands and thoughts to yourself regardless of your interest in my body and choices (or lack there of).

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast, Quickly Returned To Being The Top Corporate Funders Of Anti-Democracy Insurrectionists

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 06:48am

  No matter where you move to in the US, there's a good chance Internet costs an unreasonable amount and is unreasonably slow. That could change, but it'd mean actually regulating these companies. Nationalizing ISPs seems like a double-edged sword, but that might work. I think this is another area where people have an opportunity to come together to build more WCNs and NISPs. Again, I feel like there's a resurgence of interest in actually learning tech skills that makes that more viable than it may have been years ago. It's also a form of 'mutual aid' for people who need it and a form of resistance against big telecom and the CHUDs they donate money to.

• On the post: I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 04:15am

  I'm gonna have to press the Musk button regarding that sympathy for... Musk.

• On the post: I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 04:09am

  I'll rejoin Twitter if Snoop Dog takes over and makes it cannabis-themed. Will people be banned for being anti-drug on Twitter then? Will he make Martha Stewart the CFO?

• On the post: Can AI Text Writers Help People Impacted By Copyright Law To Better Weigh In On Copyright?

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2022 @ 04:06am

  Don't believe the hype.

• On the post: As Many Suspected, Elon’s Claims Of Jet Account Helping His Stalker Turned Out To Be Bogus

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 04:10pm

  Pretty sure that Elon Musk's four private jets (that he owns, not counting any that his companies own or he might rent for whatever reason, but those too) all have to refuel with fossil fuels. A bigger fail is Elon Musk using security guys as nannies and being an absentee parent, it's not hard to see why his adult daughter disowned him as soon as she could; clearly he (like many old people) has a disdain for younger people like her and the kid who made the plane trackers. Given that he likes to date younger women, that disdain probably has extended to all his baby-mommas too. Especially his latest several; I feel sorry for those latest kids too though.

• On the post: As Many Suspected, Elon’s Claims Of Jet Account Helping His Stalker Turned Out To Be Bogus

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 03:56pm

  I mean, someone stalking Lil Nas X makes more sense and is a bigger reason for concern for sure because Lil Nas X actually has talent and a sense of humor. I feel like we're all missing the real story here, which is that Grimes has a secret boyfriend that Elon Musk is having his 'security' losers follow and harass to the point of Grimes' secret boyfriend losing his mind. Either that or he really is a stalker, but is stalking Grimes and not Elon Musk or their... literal baby. Honestly, I am not as well-versed in Taylor Lorenz reporting as her fans and haters seem to be, but the story was pretty sparse on details that painted a picture of anything that made sense. For all we know, this dude could be Elon Musk's coke dealer. Which would explain a lot. It makes more sense than a conspiracy involving the long-hated (by Elon Musk and fans) ElonJet tracker, you don't have to have enough money to hire rocket engineers you later fire for bullshit reasons to do the math on that. Honestly, the character assassination of Jack Sweeney is really perverse and it's the only assassination attempt going on related to this. That kid worked hard to code something cool and useful to impress a man who only reacted to it with extreme paranoia and frankly insulting offers to take it down. Now Musk's cult is talking about that as if Sweeney was endangering Musk and extorting him; physically he's probably in more danger than Musk ever is because of how ardent Musk cultists are. What Sweeney did endanger was the impression Elon Musk cares about the future of life, aka Elon Musk doesn't care about carbon pollution (the supposed selling point of his overpriced electric cars) as much as he cares about getting billions in government subsidies and pretending he's cool or something.

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