when commenting on companies like Apple or core open source technologies SystemD it seems I have two options, either get lumped in with the shills or the truthers.
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@hpincket the promulgators of these conspiracy theories know not to actually say “they” or “the jews” or “the muslim anarchist communist deep state” or whatever the fuck, but they all gesture vaguely at the ur-malevolent collective will that all conspiracy fabulism relies upon
@hpincket and to be clear: the people posting these threads probably, for the most part, do not *realize* that they are passive-voicing themselves right past centuries-old antisemitic tropes; it’s so vague and nebulous that they don’t even realize that their arguments *do* require a rhetorical “they” with a coherent and nefarious agenda. if you unfocus your eyes and take in the vibes it *feels* like a systemic critique, about, like, capital, or hegemony or something
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@hpincket and to be clear: the people posting these threads probably, for the most part, do not *realize* that they are passive-voicing themselves right past centuries-old antisemitic tropes; it’s so vague and nebulous that they don’t even realize that their arguments *do* require a rhetorical “they” with a coherent and nefarious agenda. if you unfocus your eyes and take in the vibes it *feels* like a systemic critique, about, like, capital, or hegemony or something
@glyph Thank you. I admit I am prone to conspiracy but always get stuck on the mechanism. If you take a beat to ask “who/how exactly?”, you realize what’s required is even more outlandish/unlikely.
I found some articles on birthDate, and the “who” would seem to be Meta (and lawmakers who were convinced age verification would solve problems). Not sure what conversations people imagine behind Meta’s closed doors.
I haven’t found any information on the C compiler Macbook Neo conspiracy though.
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@hpincket the main point is that the imagination is necessary. if some grim conspiracy at Meta were revealed, I wouldn’t be *too* surprised, but I would need to see evidence for it! the truthers would reply “yes but haven’t you seen what they’ve already done in Myanmar” and yes I have, but that’s the point: we know about that stuff because of evidence. it was specific actions taken by specific people not just general malevolence vibes from which we can infer all evil we might imagine
@hpincket re: the neo, it’s rarely stated all at once like that, but as a collage of related ideas: the hardware specs are intentionally bad, you can get better elsewhere for cheaper, with such specs you can only “consume” not “create”, “creation” is often implicitly taken to mean “make native software for the host platform”. all of this is silly and false on its face, but also, it sort of ignores the existence of the iPad and *its* consumption focus
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@glyph Thank you. I admit I am prone to conspiracy but always get stuck on the mechanism. If you take a beat to ask “who/how exactly?”, you realize what’s required is even more outlandish/unlikely.
I found some articles on birthDate, and the “who” would seem to be Meta (and lawmakers who were convinced age verification would solve problems). Not sure what conversations people imagine behind Meta’s closed doors.
I haven’t found any information on the C compiler Macbook Neo conspiracy though.
@hpincket the main point is that the imagination is necessary. if some grim conspiracy at Meta were revealed, I wouldn’t be *too* surprised, but I would need to see evidence for it! the truthers would reply “yes but haven’t you seen what they’ve already done in Myanmar” and yes I have, but that’s the point: we know about that stuff because of evidence. it was specific actions taken by specific people not just general malevolence vibes from which we can infer all evil we might imagine
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I'd really like to reply directly and try to engage in discussions but *everyone* doing this is way too angry and dysregulated to respond to personal feedback, and half the time I will see six pages of Leftist Theory buzzwords thrown into a blender, click through to the bio to see where they're coming from, and see "20 y/o comp sci student" and like, I hate age verification too but I feel like we all might have been better off if we couldn't post until we could rent a car
@glyph wow, no offense Glyph, but this sounds like something a /sheeple/ would write!!! /s
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@glyph wow, no offense Glyph, but this sounds like something a /sheeple/ would write!!! /s
@glyph anyway yea I literally just muted a couple of these accounts the other day. Wish these folks could direct their anger at someone who deserves it instead of venting their spleens all over the rest of us
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@hpincket the promulgators of these conspiracy theories know not to actually say “they” or “the jews” or “the muslim anarchist communist deep state” or whatever the fuck, but they all gesture vaguely at the ur-malevolent collective will that all conspiracy fabulism relies upon
@glyph To be 'fair', they did single out that one systemd contributor. They named and shamed him, mobbed him by posting his employer and location etc.
I asked someone why they're doing this and they flat out denied that they did so — even though the post was right in their timeline. Bizarre.
I've been unfollowing a bunch of people lately. They're not all teenagers either.
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@glyph anyway yea I literally just muted a couple of these accounts the other day. Wish these folks could direct their anger at someone who deserves it instead of venting their spleens all over the rest of us
@bitprophet the sad reality of all this is that those to blame are largely beyond our reach, and it is precisely because that is a hard reality to accept, that folks lash out against those closer to their own sphere of influence
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@hpincket birthDate in systemd is the thin end of the wedge for “them” to get the operating system to report your social security number and your fingerprints to upload to the global database. the macbook neo is just the first step to making C compilers illegal because “they” want us to be unthinking consumer sheep
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when commenting on companies like Apple or core open source technologies SystemD it seems I have two options, either get lumped in with the shills or the truthers. I really do not like either of these options
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I like Antix and MX Linux, because they're a Debian distro that supports non-systemd inits but doesn't see it as their sole mission in life.
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