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pelespirit

@ pelespirit @sh.itjust.works

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    AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars

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  • And now we're back to OP's original comment. I think you're agreeing with them.

    This. And nearly no artist makes big money on art unless a.) they die first or b.) it’s some BS “modern art” paint splattered on a page made for the explicit purpose of being purchased by a bazillion are and “donated” to a museum so they can make a huge tax write off. (Read: used to dodge taxes)

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  • I can name a LOT of them: Damien Hurst, Banksy, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, and many, many more. Plenty more that have died recently, but were hugely famous during their lifetimes, like Chuck Close or Roy Lichtenstein, who are displayed in nearly every museum in the world, including the Met and MOMA. Many artists like Picasso, Rembrandt, Michaelangelo, Monet, and many more, were extraordinarily famous in their lifetimes.

    I think you're being very naive. One of the people you mentioned did something exactly for the purpose op was saying. 20 artists in the last century in museums isn't a lot of people either. All of that is decided by the tastemakers, the people who have connections and/or lots and lots of money to run the museum. Bill Gates mom ran the Seattle Art Museum for years.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God

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  • We still don't know what type of person they are. Them being smart and focused on the research, doesn't give them a pass. They could even not care who else has the info.

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  • There are companies creating artificial life by generating custom chromosomes.

    My dude, not a fun thing to think about who might have control over that. Is it a musk, zuck, cook or epstein?

  • Trump Accuses Obama of Treason in Unhinged Crashout About Black People

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  • He saw the CNN poll where he is lower than he has ever been, Obama never went that low. Trump is forgetting that he is the one that did all those things, lol.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • They* called it shadow banning on reddit, but I think of it more as shadow curating. I explain it a little more in other comments itt. Reddit does the curating as well.

    IMO, you could do this live pretty easily. When I first started posting, the trolls would complain that I wasn't consistently online, lol.

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  • Theres a queue that is part of different instances. What can happen is posts/comments get backed up and the queue takes them all in. When an outage or slowdown happens it can bog down certain servers. Threadiverse (piefes/lemmy/mbin/etc…) up/down votes, comments, posts, etc… it gets slower as more instances connect to others. Its unfortunate but its part of the fediverse protocol. Piefed has some advances there, but it can still get bogged down sometimes.

    I would probably agree with this being the issue, if it wasn't so consistent except when I post out of the norm, I didn't have a run in with a rogue mod deleting my posts days later, and them seeming to have a shit ton of money when the exodus happened like a corp would have. You may, but most of us don't know who is behind the curtain for that instance.

    With the way it's happening, it can't be explained when you really look at the nuances. It's more like a bug that any of my posts get upvotes. Again, I don't care about upvotes. This is extremely apparent because I've posted for years with only 8 upvotes for most of my posts.

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  • So, instead of saying this isn't happening, why not look into how it could be done? They're doing it, I have no idea how. Take a look at new and you'll see that things are being controlled for the all, hot page.

    I post almost every work day, I can see the patterns really well from my end. I don't care about upvotes as well, so I don't really have any emotion attached to it other than it pisses me off that I'm probably not seeing other things they don't want me to see. That's really what I hated about reddit too and why I came here.

    They could have someone controlling it real time, yeah? That would explain the inconsistency of when I post out of the norm. I've been lightly testing them for years now, which is why I believe I can safely say these things.

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  • You can read the code? I can't. It wouldn't even have to be a permanent code. It cold work for say an hour, take the post out of the running for the front page, and then disappear. The effects would be the same.

    I know this is happening, I have no idea how.

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  • If an instance has the most people and blocks those people from seeing your post, delays it from posting, or downgrades it as a source, it could easily be done. They have control over their own instance.

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  • Lemmy world does the same thing, but to a lesser extent. Since they have so much of the users on the fediverse, them controlling their front page really controls the votes and who sees what.

  • AOC's answer on running for president leaves political world speechless

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  • Lol, no he wasn't.

    Source: See any of his shows.

  • AOC's answer on running for president leaves political world speechless

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  • They're democratic socialists, not corrupt communists.

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  • No one says anything, cuz it's depressing and we know.

  • TIL that the first real marshmallows were created around 2000 BCE in Ancient Egypt

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  • Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'

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  • This is the creeping fascism America is trying to warn you about. We seem to be going down this road as well.

  • Susie Wiles’ Demand Staffers Stop Leaking to Press is Leaked To Press

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  • Guess who the probable leaker is, lmao:

    During the sitdown, Wiles was asked whether she still backchannels to reporters, she joked: “And if I do, I get in trouble at the White House. I have a couple of friends in the reporter ranks, but we keep it to friendship.”

  • Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement

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  • Unfortunately my work laptop has to be windows. I won’t touch Microslop product after working hours.

    You mean that it has to be Microsoft? Cuz Libreoffice works on windows.

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  • The AI also tells them that they're awesome and smart. It's a great match.

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • Vincent Adultman