Based on these comments, I question everyone’s commitment to SparkleMotion.

Did you know the most common name in the arabic language is “Ibn”?

Same/same

Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed

Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.

These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.

Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society

Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.

It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.

The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.

I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.

My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with ‘discounted’ orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices than normal.

These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.

Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.

Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.

The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.

They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.

It was surely used as an opportunity for conservatives to push their agenda, but I am super sceptical it is a cause in any way.

First, HIV hasn’t been an automatic death sentence for over 25 years.

Second, Reagan was elected before AIDS/GRID was even a known thing.

The rise in conservatism is an engineered backlash that began at the dawn of time. Look up Smedley Butler and the Business plot from the 30’s. Look into Roger Stone and his determination to make sure no president would ever be held accountable as Nixon was for Watergate.

Conservatism is just a smoke screen for a small, way-too-wealthy cabal to get some popular support for their desire to own every damn thing everywhere. It always has been. This goes back long before the Magna Carta even.

No need to be sorry. I also love injecting innuendo into every possible situation!

Ha! The word roots literally mean ‘a foot and a half’. It means I like loooong words!

sesquipedalian

All 18 inches, baby!

Listen here, you little shit.

JK, you are correct. I prefer punishingly steep progressive taxation over asphyxiation as a solution.

Then WHY THE FUCK AREN’T WE ACTING LIKE IT!!!

Sir, I apologize for my inappropriate display of emotion. But seriously, I think almost everyone would agree with this statement if asked in a vacuum.

You may enjoy, if you aren’t already familiar with, FDR’s Four Freedoms concept.

There are FOUR freedoms!

Now is the point in history where we have to actualize these wonderful ideas. The US Constitution is a flimsy piece of paper. The only strength it ever had is that which we lend to it, collectively.

It’s all on us.

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I don’t buy it.

A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.

It’s stone, not concrete. Likely sandblasted. They use silicone stencils that resist the abrasive particles. It’s how gravestones and other markers are made commonly.

The employees who actually create the wealth. That’s to whom control should go