The United States is transitioning into a post-literate society. Teaching kids to read was too hard, and had the ugly side effect of encouraging critical thinking, and that led to liberalism, or worse, Marxism.

So we’re using technology to eliminate reading entirely. After all, if you can ask a LLM any question and get a simple answer read to you out loud in simple vocabulary, what more do you need? Are you going to read for pleasure? To fact check? To better yourself? Sounds like ivory tower liberal elitism to me.

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And on the punk side of things, anybody familiar with volunteer community action, cooperative events, whatever, knows that sometimes a person doing shit for the community fails to do the shit they were supposed to do because some other shit happened in their life. It happens. We just move on to the backup shit-doer-person or find a workaround for the lack of shit.

And this is the cool thing about a distributed network like Lemmy. If a giant centralized database like FB goes down, its users can’t do anything. If our favorite Lemmy node goes down, we can log into other nodes until our home base is back up.

Shit happens. Thanks for the update 🙂

I think you’ve got it. Reddit’s board of directors know what content they need to sell the most ads, and they don’t want to lose time and profit letting their unpaid employeesusers post content that doesn’t fit their vision. So they fire users who don’t produce the content they want, replace them with AI bots who do produce the content they want, and the product looks the same to advertisers.

They’ve been doing this for years, of course. Summer 2024 was just an embarrassment of pro- Harris botting and manufactured consensus.

And come summer 2026 I expect a massive ramp up in pro-Republican AI content, because we know which party can and will pay the most to manufacture that consensus next year.