It’s escapism versus reality. I didn’t think The Matrix is far more nuanced than I initially realised.

Poor Finland, stuck between a rock and a hard place this time.

My opinion is that social media algorithm polarised and poisoned everyone’s minds. We have become corralled into our own different sets of reality. So, we only see what we want to see and not see what others see.

If you collect and learn all languages that ever existed, then perhaps you would gain a better understanding of the world. I’m not a linguist, but I am fascinated with the fact that languages each have their own unique quirks and words untranslatable to another language. These quirks and words which are only unique to a language reflects the value of the culture speaking that language. For example, Austronesian languages are gender neutral. There is no “he” or “she” pronouns. That reflects the largely gender egalitarian value of Austronesians. The Japanese have another word for a shade of blue, which most other people won’t easily recognise except the Japanese. Some African greetings say “I see you”, which is not only a salutation, but is recognising the person being greeted as an individual.

Pretty sure this is old news? It’s basically sonar, which The Dark Knight predicted in the film.

Edit: a word

Ignoring social media has been the biggest mistake of the left across the world. In my home country, an objectively better and progressive candidate was outvoted by the son of an ex-dictator by a landslide, because the said candidate is an old school progressive who still does the old-fashioned way of convincing voters, by going door to door and relying on legacy media, instead of presenting a brand of herself in social media like Mamdani does. That’s when I realised “yup, social media is now where the frontline is, whether we like it or not.”

Yeah I am aware that managers will just put more jobs on to you if you do it quick. That’s why I don’t tell them if I finished a task early.

I actually like using AI in my workplace to rid the need for tedious data entry. But i realised that if I told people about it, the management might see that they may not need me anymore so i won’t teach anyone how to efficiently use AI.

It’s alright. Story wise it’s lukewarm and the humour isn’t as funny as its predecessors. However, the multiplayer was fun so i can see why it is extremely popular.

Yup. Mamdani is teaching the modern left how to spread the message. There is a lot of disdain from the left on social media. A lot of us are smart enough to recognise that socmed is vapid and shallow. But we’re not too bright to recognise that that is where people are at these days, no matter how dumb socmed is. That’s why the often criticism of the left is the poor messaging. Now I understand what that criticism mean.

Social media is the new plaza, like how radio, cinema and TV were during FDR’s time. As a matter of fact, the Nazis also recognised the potential power of radio. One of their early policies is to buy everyone a radio; so that the Nazis could control information. This is not different from today in which oligarchs and the far right also recognised the potential of socmed as a tool for control.

If you are in a secure job and happy with your position, sure. But for those of us either unemployed or looking to move to another company, this is a pain in the hole. I used to get more messages from recruiters or get invitations for interview.

When EA was good. I lament some of the best gaming companies have been captured by greed.

Even college educated jobs are being off-shored. In my field, some companies are moving to India.

Whether intentional or not, or just progressive improvement on algorithms, youtube thrives by providing a need, and then providing it poorly so you keep your watch time going forever.

It depends. I’m a huge nerd and my YouTube browsing habits are relating to educational videos and long form essays. My news sources on YouTube are also less sensationalist.

On algorithm, I kinda minimise its bs by turning off my watch history. I bookmark my YouTube page to my watch later playlist, so I could chip away at my nearly twenty years of backlog of videos to watch.

Well said. My weekend turns out to be decompression time.

The best example is The Thing. The original film in the 1950s was awkward af. But the 1980s remake by John Carpenter was chef’s kiss. Then they made a remake of a remake and it was meh.

Excuse you, I’m waiting in videogame lobby as we speak while browsing through Lemmy to pass few seconds as I wait for other players to join. Ohhh, there’s the beep. I must play now.

I’m glad I unsubscribed to Netflix.

It’s a joke.

Now, if only you could monetise getting people’s attention…