Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I don't have any qualifications when it comes to psychology, but i have a suspicion that it's something to do with him being a massive twat...
Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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I don't have any qualifications when it comes to psychology, but i have a suspicion that it's something to do with him being a massive twat...
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
I think he received the diagnosis of Massive Bell Piece Personality Disorder (MBPPD)
andysays
Love and solidarity
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
If this idiot thinks charging $1 will stop the bots then he's an even bigger idiot that I gave him credit for.
techcrunch.com
Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting | TechCrunch
Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to enable posting on social networks and curb the bot problem.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
not strictly elon related but belongs here anyway:
www.wheresyoured.at
They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg...
www.wheresyoured.at
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work | Defector
Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on...
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Maybe that's why Teslas appeal to Apple users. I mean the Venn diagram for Muskrats and Applets is almost a perfect circle. Maybe they're the same subset of deluded 'philes
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
was thinking that if these cars are run like iphones, i.e. just a computer running it, - that stresses me out even thinking about it. See also the "i hate my printer" thread. Cars are stressful anyway (esp. when on a tight budget). I guess we are just replacing one forms of stress with another. Be fascinating to see if these things end up breaking down more than "analogue" vehicles. This is just the flow of "progress" i guess. I did talk to a mechanic the other day and he describes trying to fix Teslas as a "fucking nightmare". We'll see i guess. be fascinating to think what sort of car and waht sort of "improved" car my 8 year old will be driving when she's my age. But then the brain chips will be in place by then so she probably won't have to travel anywhere to get anything she needs.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Interesting read - there's a way i have found of stopping advertising on these apps and platforms. What you basically do is go to Settings>Account>Delete App.not strictly elon related but belongs here anyway:
They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg...
and big up urban
. we take it for granted here.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Well that’s not good
techcrunch.com
Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck | TechCrunch
It's technically the Cybertruck's second recall, but it is the most serious to date, and it caps a tumultuous week for Tesla.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Fortunately you won't be able to afford it. As stupid deaths go that one will make getting squashed like a bug in someone's homemade sardine tin sub seem a comparative bargain.
If you die in space you have a slim chance of being freeze dried very quickly, so that future space-faring humans might discover your drifting corpse and re-animate you.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Fly me to the moon...Oops, OK, let me play among the stars.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I'd like to think that if you're close enough to the sun you end up frozen but also lightly toasted on one side.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
not strictly elon related but belongs here anyway:
They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg...
And they're greedy for even more. If you look at many of these platforms, the number of ads per minute or screen is increasing dramatically.
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
I have a pi-hole DNS blocker installed. It works pretty well at blocking ads, but it requires a Raspberry Pi and a little know-how to get it to work.
pi-hole.net
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
pi-hole.net
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Right I am going to go off on one about social media for the last time because I am beginning to bore myself and I sound like a broken record. I am not a fuddy duddy, or luddite. I use social media. i have to be careful with it though because I get sucked in easily and it begins to dominate me and my psyche and makes me feel uncomfortable. But one thing I think that is not stressed enough is it’s addictive, harrasing nature, and how their primary reason de etre is addicting the user. Today, sat on the bus saw a mother and child, the child in a push chair, the mother doing the loop: insta, facebook, whatsapp, and back again. Over and over. For the entire journey, 45 minutes. The child staring out the window. This is not a judgement of the mother, I have done this enough with my kids, she might be taking a well needed break. But it also highlights other problems. That well needed break could be spent gazing out of the window. We have replaced the gaps inbetween things – going from point a to b – such as a journey, with hyperactivity, a kind of weird sense of trying to find satisfaction and pleasure constantly through these platforms. Mark Fisher wrote about this - saying he could never actually quite read anything online properly because there was always this voice screaming at him in the back of his mind "there's somethign better a few clicks away!" It is the pollar opposite of contemplation. I don’t mean fancy, mystical, philosophical contemplation. I mean the ordinary human need for mental and emotional space to process, to think through, to let the mind have no particular goal, to be open to realisations, even negative ones. maybe especially negative ones. This sort of contemplation I don’t even ascribe a positive or negative vale – just that we have one life, and one field of consciousness, my one life is what my consciousness is doing now. Try sitting in a pret or other coffee shop with nothing. No phone. No headphones. No book. You will I am 95% sure be the only one who is not looking at something, the only one who is not in a state of stimulation. You might notice people looking at you like your a sex case or alien lol.
People used to do this. The old chap in the pub with just a pint. People on train journeys who put the paper down and then spent hours gazing out the window. “We have lost the ability to linger” as byung chul han has put it, and he also writes “new thought rarely arrives in hyperactivity – the person becomes an automation of the present, with no past, no future in hyperactivity – boredom therefore is profound”.
heidegger again. stick wtih me:
This is why Heidegger I think is popular amongst critical theorists and left wing thinkers in general at the moment. Heidegger was a philosopher of Being – capital B. he didn’t see the distinction between subject and object, that that distinction is imaginary, inbuilt into the human senses but not a reality – reality, Being, is "one thing" therefore. He called what we experience, i.e. you looking at this post now, “a clearing” – not “reality” not “the universe” - in which Being through beings reveals itself. His philosophy is experimental, phenomenological, rather than a theory. It’s a philosophy you have to notice. To actually embody and practice. That’s why he is so tied with mysticism. He really I think sharpens the human to what there is, what is going on, what it feels like to experience Being. How Being operates as us, is us (no subject and objects, right), and that what you experience at any moment is simply (but indescribably) Being. So then even social media is this Being. But he would also ask what does it feel like, what is going on within the nervous system, within the mind, within desire, within consciousness itself, when one is engaged in the average (monitised) twitter war, say. What does solidarity feel like on twitter. Or compassion. or love on tinder. What is its experimental “revealing.” He doesn’t mean just in a psychological sense, but what happens in the “clearing of Being” when one is jumping on the latest trending, or getting tinder alerts, etc. It’s not about ditching it all and going for a walk in the woods, its about asking what this stuff does to us. Asking ourselves what it is being done to us by it and what we are doing to it. He’s the greatest “snap out of it and see” philosopher ever in my book, and this is why he is popular today with thinkers who want to ask what all this stuff has done and is doing to us. He asks you what it is to be alive and then tells you that its not you that is alive but Being. Heavy shit, but you can get all you need from him from secondary sources. He is almost impenetrable at times. I think my reading of him though has really made me qestion everything about my relation to teh digital. Burdened with insight you might say, i have choices to make regarding where my attention is directed.
Back to the addictive side of social media, it plays on the human need to be liked, to be validated, titillated, excited. All these things can be experienced in your average twitter war, but experienced in a hyperactive way. Those feelings can also be experienced in other addictive substances such as booze or pills. But at least with them new realms of being, as Heidegger would put it, seem to be opened up, new experiences. I think I had more profound, human, connected, experiences on just a few nights on exstacy than I have ten years of social media usage. Truly. i don’t like that my kids are already extremely well imbedded in what mark fisher calls the tech capitalists “stimulation matrix”, but other than limiting their time somewhat, it’s like telling the tide not to come in. my son would stare at youtube for most of his waking day if he had his way. I don’t like that friends have gone from ordinary middle of the road people to raving lunatics due to their social media feeds. It’ll be interesting to see if this enshittification processes that are underway lead to new levels of thought and consciousness outside and along with social media. it’ll be here forever, after all. No going back. Rant over. I am fun at parties.
Those interested in finding out more about heidegger’s thought should start with this video.
People used to do this. The old chap in the pub with just a pint. People on train journeys who put the paper down and then spent hours gazing out the window. “We have lost the ability to linger” as byung chul han has put it, and he also writes “new thought rarely arrives in hyperactivity – the person becomes an automation of the present, with no past, no future in hyperactivity – boredom therefore is profound”.
heidegger again. stick wtih me:
This is why Heidegger I think is popular amongst critical theorists and left wing thinkers in general at the moment. Heidegger was a philosopher of Being – capital B. he didn’t see the distinction between subject and object, that that distinction is imaginary, inbuilt into the human senses but not a reality – reality, Being, is "one thing" therefore. He called what we experience, i.e. you looking at this post now, “a clearing” – not “reality” not “the universe” - in which Being through beings reveals itself. His philosophy is experimental, phenomenological, rather than a theory. It’s a philosophy you have to notice. To actually embody and practice. That’s why he is so tied with mysticism. He really I think sharpens the human to what there is, what is going on, what it feels like to experience Being. How Being operates as us, is us (no subject and objects, right), and that what you experience at any moment is simply (but indescribably) Being. So then even social media is this Being. But he would also ask what does it feel like, what is going on within the nervous system, within the mind, within desire, within consciousness itself, when one is engaged in the average (monitised) twitter war, say. What does solidarity feel like on twitter. Or compassion. or love on tinder. What is its experimental “revealing.” He doesn’t mean just in a psychological sense, but what happens in the “clearing of Being” when one is jumping on the latest trending, or getting tinder alerts, etc. It’s not about ditching it all and going for a walk in the woods, its about asking what this stuff does to us. Asking ourselves what it is being done to us by it and what we are doing to it. He’s the greatest “snap out of it and see” philosopher ever in my book, and this is why he is popular today with thinkers who want to ask what all this stuff has done and is doing to us. He asks you what it is to be alive and then tells you that its not you that is alive but Being. Heavy shit, but you can get all you need from him from secondary sources. He is almost impenetrable at times. I think my reading of him though has really made me qestion everything about my relation to teh digital. Burdened with insight you might say, i have choices to make regarding where my attention is directed.
Back to the addictive side of social media, it plays on the human need to be liked, to be validated, titillated, excited. All these things can be experienced in your average twitter war, but experienced in a hyperactive way. Those feelings can also be experienced in other addictive substances such as booze or pills. But at least with them new realms of being, as Heidegger would put it, seem to be opened up, new experiences. I think I had more profound, human, connected, experiences on just a few nights on exstacy than I have ten years of social media usage. Truly. i don’t like that my kids are already extremely well imbedded in what mark fisher calls the tech capitalists “stimulation matrix”, but other than limiting their time somewhat, it’s like telling the tide not to come in. my son would stare at youtube for most of his waking day if he had his way. I don’t like that friends have gone from ordinary middle of the road people to raving lunatics due to their social media feeds. It’ll be interesting to see if this enshittification processes that are underway lead to new levels of thought and consciousness outside and along with social media. it’ll be here forever, after all. No going back. Rant over. I am fun at parties.
Those interested in finding out more about heidegger’s thought should start with this video.
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