I hate trying to apply logic to something that's so inherently bullshit but even if you were to annex Canada, why the hell does he think it would be one state and not several?

Yeah no shit and you've been acting against our best interests for decades

Seems like they have a pilot script and no funding. This was way too much hype and preamble for an idea they're still shopping around

LLMs are heavily training on other LLM output at this point because the internet is flooded with it. So if people are running tons of bot farms with right wing bullshit, it's going to get trained on more and more of that.

LLMs were always doomed to train themselves on the slop and that's sort of why they're unsalvageable.

The Cybertruck fans have basically just decided that because one of them was a drunk driver they don't need to think about the rest of it and it's fine that they died.

The average person doesn't use network drives or know what they are.

The real problem is if people can't buy Linux laptops at Best Buy it literally doesn't matter how usable or not it is because the average person doesn't install an OS.

You do realize that the foods we are going to have a crisis over includes literally all the stuff you eat instead of meat too right

Most series don't get funded by directly asking fans to beg studios on their behalf. I don't expect this series to ever see the light of day.

I don't really understand the appeal of reddit as an investment vehicle anyway. Social media is notoriously unprofitable. Reddit only recently managed to get there after how many years??

To some degree though that's exactly why this should be more alarming: the current administration ISN'T just doing this to easy targets they know the population will ignore. If they're doing this to a nice white Canadian woman instead of brown people they can easily disappear without being noticed, that means they're getting a lot braver.

It's because the old guard Democrats only offer "we aren't Trump I guess!" and spend half their time chastising their own voting base for not doing enough for them. While they were sitting there during Trump's speech doing their little sign thing with only one of them being willing to get thrown out, they were asking for donations. People get tired of that.

Meanwhile a guy who does nothing but try to convince retail store employees to tell him about their retail uniforms so he can jerk off to it manages to make new accounts every day for years. Why can't you fix THAT, Reddit?

A few days ago he posted (then I think deleted) this, which among other things makes me extremely inclined to not believe anything he says:

In March 2019 I teased the Pixelfed mobile app. The only problem was, I didn't know how to write one. So just like the original "federated instagram" post, I faked a commercial to build hype. It was coming along well. Then in mid 2020, I came out and put the app aside. It wasn't until late 2022 that I found a Pixelfed react native app, and cloned it and tinkered. In 2023 I released the first Pixelfed app, but it was slow. I rewrote it from scratch in May 2024. From faking, to making!

Frankly, just learn to identify vintage denim at all. People have the mistaken idea that everything used to be better quality than now, and that was never true, there has always been bad and good quality stuff. BUT, the thing about buying older stuff (vintage clothing, antique furniture, old tools, etc.) is that if it was bad quality stuff that wouldn't last, it wouldn't be here now to begin with.

I was posting this elsewhere recently but people massively underestimate how the US's size factors into this. You can drive 10 hours from some parts of Texas and still be in Texas. The amount of money it would take to assemble all of us willing to protest in locations that would actually matter is incredible, and protesting in small town Kentucky won't do much for you. We flat out cannot get the whole country together. I'm like 9 hours away from the capitol and I am closer than 80% of the country to the capitol.

A car like this isn't a safe choice to begin with so step one is don't get into one of these.

Smart in the face of Facebook's slow death, but god I wish it was anyone else doing it.

Yeah ultimately my impression of all of this is that Fungi is probably a mess, but the other side is probably ALSO a mess, and I have no problem believing that in a decentralized grassroots movement someone will see a power vacuum and start trying to corporatize and centralize and sanitize it, and possibly make some money too.

But to your point, I think 50501 as a brand outlived its usefulness anyway. The best thing it did was get people connected to their smaller local organizers, it doesn't really mean much otherwise. Most of the protests are being organized by entities other than 50501 or volunteers that have no need to stay latched onto 50501 as a name. I think it served its purpose and there's no good reason to be donating to some sort of overhead 50501 organization versus your own local organizations doing the actual work, and 50501 as a name is absolutely is rife to be exploited.

I've been trying to piece this together since a lot of the posts in question got deleted.

Some chunk of it was quoted in this comment here: https://www.reddit.com/...

Best I can tell, the guy who started 50501 went off the rails and there was some sort of sexual harassment allegation involved.

Ultimately what I don't like here is how much people have been discouraged from discussing it. The discord and subreddit want people to just leave it be and wait for the official statement from the mods. But...in a decentralized movement, "the mods" should not be the only ones privvy to what happened and the only ones discussing it. I mean I sort of get it, you've got a discord with however many tens of thousands of users, you don't want to deal with keeping an eye on all that. But at the same time, if the creator of the movement has done something, it's a really, really bad look to try to stop people from discussing it or sharing what was posted. This should be as transparent as possible. If only the discord or reddit mods get to talk about it and see what happened, or if everyone else can only find out what happened as filtered through discord and reddit mods, that's not really decentralization anymore, that's having a class of members that are privy to secrets the rest of the movement is not. And I think it's pretty important for everyone to be able to see and discuss what the guy behind a movement is doing and saying. I mean, it doesn't sound like his positions are very defensible from the fragments I found, but I also want to see the firsthand accounts of what happened, because in another scenario if some reddit and discord mods decided they wanted someone out of the movement for bad reasons, and all you were allowed to see or discuss was their retelling of it...you can see how that could be abused.

The reality is decentralized movements are never truly leaderless, but sometimes they end up in a worse situation where there clearly ARE leaders but their power is dismissed as if it's non existent. At the end of the day, someone owns admin ownership of the discord, some number of people moderate it, some number of people moderate the subreddit, someone owns and registered the website, some number of people have edit access to it, all of this does matter. Some number of people were able to oust the creator of the movement out of the movement. From what info I've gathered so far I can't say it was the wrong move, but it is a very good moment to start asking how that was done, how just a handful of people were able to do that for a movement of this many people overall, and who has what powers where. It's something you should ALWAYS be thinking about in any decentralized environment. I don't think they made the wrong choice (as of now), but I don't like mods on any of these platforms going "no, don't talk about this, this is just some drama you don't need to worry about, we're handling it behind the scenes". I'm not sure who decided who gets to be privy to it and who gets to be "behind the scenes" and who doesn't.

King of the Hill is maybe the show I have watched the most of in my life, I have a very deep love of this show, and...I could not possibly want it to return less. Between Mike Judge's work after it ended, his weird libertarianism not aging well, Hardwick's death and just being tired of reboots, I don't want it back. It belongs where it was.