Uriel238

Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we're shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don't moderate your platform, it'll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

I was called too lazy as a kid so much that it figures largely in my debilitating disability. Then in the 90s studying psychology I developed a hypothesis there was no such thing as laziness (or the sin sloth as its recognized by post-Calvanist Protestantism) rather all instances of avolition could be traced to dysfunction, poor health or misunderstanding the degree of fatigue caused by the necessary work.

By the 2010s the psychology sector came to the same conclusion, that productivity could be improved by creating a healthy environment for work that allowed people to do human things between tasks (take bathroom breaks, check social media, eat snacks, etc.) Or can be decreased by making the work environment toxic (crunching, harassment, stale offerings in the vending machine, pressure to not take relief breaks, etc.)

The epidemic lockdown of 2020 and mass furlogh actually vindicated these hypotheses (though I haven't read the studies) when people turned to hobbies with fervent obsession, often enough yielding marketable results, resulting in the great resignation.

By 2000, French and Brazilian bodyscaping were the norm in the porn industry, in contrast to the 80s and 90 in which full pubes were common unless the talent was trying to signal she was kinky.

In the 70s, the Golden Age of Porn, full pubes were expected (or at most, someone might get a bikini trim, like for wearing a bikini). If someone was trimmed or shaved, it was because she was a French arty bohemian. (I don't know if the Brazillians were doing it yet.)

Before that, porn was mostly pin ups and underground reels. If you wanted to see below the waist you had to find nudist documentary footage. Also European porn in the mid 20th century dipped as young as 14 years, though 16 was more common. Only after globalization and Europorn was marketing in the US did a hard age floor of 18 years become enforced.

ETA: Before the 21st century in western civ, women's bits were notoriously mysterious, what with young men trying to sneak a peak and only getting to see bush. Also men's mags were conscious about showing genitals until the late 80s. (There was an open spat between Playboy and Penthouse about the thresholds of pridishness, tastefulness, and indecency.)

Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?

Related to this topic is Masnick's Impossibility Theorem, Mike Masnick observes that it's impossible to do content moderation at scale well (that is without both malicious content slipping through while false positives get taken down).

A more humorous version of the same notion is found on Masnick's proposed Twitter content moderation speedrun. Note that Musk not only failed to not trip over all these steps, but also found new ones to trip over, and now Twitter is... well what Twitter is today.

It's the same scam as the middle ages, where serfs toil for the promise of Heaven after they die. That one still gets action.

Having recently migrated from Reddit (and kept up with commercial social media hacks) I'm used to Nothing To See Here! We totally didn't store your personal information in plaintext for hackers to snatch. Oh and maybe please change your passwords. All Part Of The Show!

So, by comparison, the response here is downright heartwarming.

This iceberg goes deep.

I only gave awards after getting ones that gave me points to give awards, and then gave them either to sad posts or when someone said to someone else, I wish I had an award to give you so take this emoji! (🎖️) so I'd cover for them, as that was appropriate.

This is to say, I suck at awards protocol, and will write fancy comments whether I'm getting awards or not.

Any lawsuit that rules in favor of copyright holders promotes piracy (as opposed to legalizing use of copyrighted material).

The more draconian and extreme our copyright laws, the more there is a need for a piracy sector.

I think this is going to raise some questions about fair use, since AI projects are absolutely a derivative works that are sufficiently removed from the content they used. (There may be some argument that it's also educational use.)

This case may rekindle questions about fair use given that our current copyright-maximalist clime has been less interested in enforcing fair use and more interested in enforcing copyright regardless of fair use.

Youtube's ad policy is abusive, and online ads are not always safe. Regardless of whether adblocking is legal or fair to Youtube, not doing so puts you at greater risk of malware insertion so is a necessary safety precaution.

As YouTube profits from your engagement through more than ads, YouTube still benefits even when you watch videos without ads.