CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@joyousjoyness This was the reaction of the Weimaraner in Best In Show (2000) after Parker Posey gave her up.

@Mastodon #Mastodon content references on mastodon still look like this:

@CiaraNi Its designed to get in-between each individual and everyone (and everything) else.

@stveje @CiaraNi I'm in my 50s, remember how camcorders became (a little) popular and the way all the people in a room got a deer-in-headlights stance (obviously self-conscious) when you picked up such a device and pointed it at them.

Manufacturers used to unfailingly put that red status light on the front of camcorders to let people know when they were recording. Nowadays that is a quaint courtesy from a bygone era. People are now constantly subdued, which is how they stay "posed" for the cams.

People can't simply "be" in their immediate social circles anymore. They have to be in the entire world all the time. It reminds me of an Arthur Clarke story, "The Light of Other Days".

@Dex "Connect everything to the Internet"... is a form of mass insanity.

@tschaefer Hey there, bud... keep up with the times! Stop holding back progress!

lol

@mhoye And what are users going to do about Mozilla's "anonymized" ad tracking?

Waterfox and Librewolf are preferable.

@thking IPv8 plz....

@mjd "FIND OUT" — meaning "experience loss".

I need to re-read that old book by Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2. Seems very apt now.

@manlycoffee The assumption that both sides here now want to codify is that small children must be tethered to remote central computers running secret attention-manipulating algorithms, and potentially every other person on Earth, unsupervised. Absurd just 15y ago, and still none of its proponents will explicitly demand it, because it still sounds insane when it is articulated.

This shit is getting scary fast because the dialogue around it is so half-baked. Like what we have now is equivalent to Clipper Chips and a boot planted directly on the face of open source. Pull your heads out of your f_cking streaming channels and reflect for a change. You want to knee-jerk advocate for something that you think is the exact opposite of The Bad Thing, and that becomes the social media talking point... but what I see is people who don't bother to examine the issues in any detail. The result is lose, and lose and then lose again. Hey... lose everything, why not.