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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

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  • I can't imagine what a healthy adult could possibly get out of that.

    Joy. What one person gets joy out of another person may not get joy out of and that's fine. But when you attempt to be the Theif of joy just because you don't like where a person is getting it from (even when that hurts literally no one), to the point where you think it's okay to shame them for it (which is basically bullying), I have to wonder a lot about not just your motives but your attempt to rationalize your own behavior.

    Just because you don't do something doesn't mean it's not okay for other people. Your arbitrary deductions about their choices don't entitle you to judge them or to try to penalize them just because you would have done differently.

    It costs you nothing to let people enjoy the things they want to enjoy when they aren't hurting you.

  • had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

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  • I think there's something to be said for having to throw away things tied to precious memories because those things are tainted by a bitch who couldn't just shut the fuck up and be happy with her success.

    But this is exactly the type of thing I mean when I say that some people's advocacy against JKR bleeds over into the lives of innocent people just trying to live.

    I would never be able to throw away a gift my father had given me. Nobody should be pressuring anyone else to do the same just because they find something problematic (not for its actual contents, but because it's author is a hate monger).

    People forget that there are real and cherished memories attached to this franchise and whether they intend to or not, they do attack them when they make media like this, or post about how terrible a person must be for having engaged with said media.

    Just because something is trivial for you to excise from your life doesn't mean it's as easy for the next person.

    When people spread further hatred because they feel self righteous about something that has wronged them, they aren't making things better.

    I don't even engage with the franchise anymore. Most of what I know about it from the last decade has been from media posts like this bashing it or telling people how evil Rowling is. I wouldn't know there was a tv show, wouldn't have known about the game l, wouldn't have known about the universal park etc if it weren't for posts like this.

    Did you throw away all your Disney media? Would you still visit a Disney or universal park? Engage with the studio that made the game or the company producing the show?

    There's so much to how media gets made and how many companies are still actively supporting this bigot and instead of attacking those corporations we attack each other for no really good reason except that it makes some people feel superior.

    Nobody ever shouts out the organizations that she donates to. Nobody ever mentions where they get their funding. Nobody ever talks about boycotting the companies making the media (not the media itself) until they stop supporting franchises like HP.

    Does that make sense? It's never made sense to me.

  • had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

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  • As someone who did grow up with the series but doesn't interact with it anymore, I'm gonna tell you that not everyone needs things to be good.

    It doesn't have to be good for you to enjoy it. Fanfiction alone wouldn't exist if it had to be good.

    I don't understand this the same way I don't understand burning books you already own. It's performative but it doesn't show any actual thought.

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    [Meta] 🚧 Under New Management 🚧

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  • Can we get a window for when the new rules may go I to effect? It doesn't have to be a hard deadline but I for one would like to know so I can review the sidebar.

  • That monster

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  • So ban evasion. That's why you have at least four accounts that I know about?

    My dude. My brother in Christ. It seems like it might be you who is taking things personally. You are showing mods and admins here in the fediverse that your actions are deliberate and irrational.

    It costs you nothing to just move on and stop the antisocial behavior that got you in trouble in the first place.

  • That monster

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  • So then what is the purpose of you hopping accounts?

    Also, don't act like you don't have an account that's not a "beep" account. People aren't that stupid.

  • That monster

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  • You who keep making new accounts presumably to circumvent people who have blocked you?

  • Sus...

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  • That's just her face. She has resting side eye face.

  • [meta] Attributed

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  • Yeah. I figured you weren't aware (same for a lot of people who downvoted the original comment).

    Op is not consistent about cropping signatures or removing credits. A lot of their older posts didn't have credits removed.

    I'd like to think there's a possibility that their post was a joke for April Fools but posts before April 1st and after it kind of refute that. They also continue to double down or feign ignorance like I've seen on other posts to avoid being called out or to try to shout down people who call them out for their own behavior. Both their post and comment history are telling.

  • [meta] Attributed

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  • If attribution can be given by linking to the original artist or otherwise annotating that the post did not have attribution and none could be found, that might be acceptable.

    But this post is in reference to a prolific poster who is deliberately removing attribution they think is "ads" which includes the artists signatures, watermarks, and social media attributions. That user has been deliberately removing said attributions recently because they "want ad free art".

  • [META] Fuck ads: I recommend adding a rule to ban watermarked comics here

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  • Is it advertising when I sign my tax return? Enquiring minds want to know. Cause I sure as hell would love it if the IRS didn't know who I was or how much money I was making.

  • [META] Fuck ads: I recommend adding a rule to ban watermarked comics here

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  • Are you puppeting your bot account right now so that you can evade a ban?

    Genuinely asking because this is just like. The worst take ever, but the time frame between the number of posts you post per day and the fact that there was a post recently about bots not being allowed all make me suspect everything you've said.

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • Think about the people you willingly surround yourself with. Then think about how often they agree with the things you think and say.

    As the saying goes "I'm sure there's someone out there who believes the exact opposite of everything I believe, and while I'm sure they aren't a complete idiot..."

    Everyone is susceptible to the feedback loop. Everyone can fall victim to the seduction of an echo chamber. While not everyone would ignore the red flag that this thing is a machine/digital algorithm rather than a person or sentient/sapient being, it's not really that hard to see how we got here. Echo chambers exist all over the internet. The difference is that most of them have some voices of dissent. The AI LLM doesn't offer that. They keep trying to add it in but it's basically antithetical to the design.

    When you add that to the fact that making it addictive benefits their bottom line is pretty obvious that they are trying to walk the line between being regulated by the government and making their product as popular as possible.

    I don't think they really knew it would have this exact effect. But I do think they plan to take advantage of it now that they know and I don't think we humans are all going to be able to fight the temptation of an automated propaganda machine.

    This is especially because mental health and healthcare in this country has been failing for decades, and even people who "don't have mental health problems" aren't magically mentally healthy, they just don't know the status of their mental health. A whole lot of people in the US especially are mentally ill or facing neurological medical problems that they don't know about.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • I thought of the one app India was trying to force all phones sold in the country to have. That one was also tracking locations.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • It was already a no from me, dawg, you don't have to convince me.

    No, but seriously. Everything he tries to implement is like 90'S cartoon level evil and sloppy. I bet we could get him monologuing.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • I wonder if that dumb ass has downloaded his own app and let a third party track the POTUS in real time. I almost feel sorry for the agents assigned to his security detail.

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • So, for the "it's the parents fault" bit I'll say this. Parents are the arbiters of Internet access in their homes. If that van with "Free Candy" written on it pulled into their driveway and they didn't call the police or warn their children not to get in the van, yes I would consider them liable.

    The fact is, lots of parents do know their children are using social media like Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok etc. A lot of parents are my age and younger (the age where we grew up with the internet and social media in its toddler years if not it's infancy). A lot of us do know the dangers (and are probably addicted ourselves).

    What some of us may lack is the knowledge to use parental controls effectively (and at least some of that is because we do dumb shit like using the same password for everything, or not changing default passwords).

    But I also think that some of us (looking at you collective shout and other organizations like it) just want to offload our responsibilities onto these companies so we have someone to blame.

    And even though I agree that what these companies are doing is wrong (directly targeting minors, deliberately making their platforms addictive, collecting data on minors etc), and I want them held accountable, I also don't think ID collection is warranted, and I view this as a way to violate privacy and collect data for surveillance purposes which I believe is wrong to do to people who haven't done anything illegal.

    Even if that weren't the case, these companies also just cannot be trusted to safeguard the PII data they're wanting to collect. So as far as I'm concerned the ID verification thing is just not going to work.

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • I absolutely agree that parents do play a role and have some responsibilities for both their and their childrens internet literacy, as well as for what their children access on the internet. I also agree that companies bear some responsibility (for making their platforms addictive on purpose in order to make money off of people they already know are underaged).

    I just really want to put forth other ideas for fixing this problem that don't involve companies being forced by law to enact ID verification when they can't be trusted to safeguard such information and it feeds into the information database they already have, which will more than likely be used to violate the privacy of their users.

    If the government absolutely must get involved making it illegal to produce and give access to a platform found to be addictive would be a start, but so would media and internet literacy education, both of which are solutions that don't violate the privacy of minors or adults.

    Digital media literacy is part of the education system in Denmark and some other European countries and it's been beneficial to their populace. I think it could be a good solution.

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • The harm doesn't come from the aspects of infinite scroll, auto play, or algorithmic examples in a vacuum.

    But we have statistically proven that when you gamify the system and the content can be considered harmful to consume too much of, those two factors are what makes it dangerous.

    Tricking the brain into doing something harmful to itself by gamification is the problem. The algorithm, auto play and infinite scroll are just mechanisms to facilitate that. Novelty only plays a small part in that. The algorithm by itself doesn't provide a dopamine hit. The infinite scroll by itself doesn't provide a dopamine hit. The auto play feature by itself doesn't cause a dopamine hit.

    Even when you combine all three the dopamine hit won't come if the content being pushed isn't sufficient to cause a rush of dopamine. And that dopamine rush often comes from things like upvotes and downvotes, and badges, and achievements. Follower counts and other metrics that the individual users use to get dopamine are being weaponized against them to make money. And it was intentional on the part of meta execs.