On the long term, anthropological warfare is a clever idea... but it's probably a little too optimistic to think you can implement with just one app. The CCP/tiktok hysteria feels overblown to me - public education is what constituents should feel concerned about.
I think it depends, my experience on hacker news has been extremely positive with the exceptions of malicious posters who downvote my cries for help. These are obvious and not depend on the platform but the user's in question. The experience I have with Twitter (X) has been people trying to help me.
There's a difference between malicious users and malicious platforms.
I think (for obvious reasons) people should really stop blaming the Talmud for everything - Jules Michelet is probably more to blame for the modern prevalence of the Ius primae noctis belief, XIXth century republicanism too had more than its share of disinformation about the middle ages that they pushed for political reasons.
Both are almost unavoidable when your management layers grow beyond a certain level.
Most of the complexity, inefficiency and the related failures in today corporate and institutional world is driven by too much management. The map has become the territory.
Wholeheartedly agree. And we shouldn't stop at Google : a large part of western capitalism in 2023 looks pretty much like a dystopian landscape out of a cyberpunk novel. It's a democratic nightmare in the making.
> a large part of western capitalism in 2023 looks pretty much like a dystopian landscape out of a cyberpunk novel. It's a democratic nightmare in the making.
My take is that this process is inevitable while the following is in play: DoJ rubberstamps monopoly creating mergers, merger desiring companies fund campaigns & otherwise gift politicians, voters keep reelecting those politicians while not overly objecting to their corruption, news orgs fail to cover mergers in a historical context while generally preferring fluff and stenography.
Those wishing to expose flaws in my analysis can use the space below.
Not gonna lie, I was expecting something more in-depth, like the complete history of manga translation from the Studio Proteus/Toren Smith era and before, to now.
Sorry for the tangent, but reading your message reminded me of early-2000s literally websites dedicated modernist/magic realism/interstitial fiction, like The Modern Word. Now that's an internet I miss.
