ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

Sam Altman? The guy who’s currently on the wrong side of the dirt for SAing his sister?

A very funny NGO report on “net-enabled anarchist extremists” that talks about the SRA like it’s the PLA

As the Axis, yes

All of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, JK I’ve got that shit on lock already

It’s all propaganda from both the US and China

Well, one large company based in China that saw a PR opportunity anyway, it’s not like TikTok is acting at the direction of the CPC lol

I mean yknow, different kinds of intelligence. Guy’s dumb as a rock in most things, but clearly has a deep unconscious understanding of performance and manipulation

It is leftist, in a way that’s so much more casual and all-encompassing than I’m used to. Lemmy communities feel like little hidden leftist saloons in the wasteland, while the culture and friendliness on rednote feels more like what a whole society of people who share leftist values should feel like. It’s immensely refreshing to just look at people’s art projects without alo feeling like you have to be constantly prepared to do battle against a firehose of manufactured outrage, clickbait and smug dehumanization, like on basically any American social media I see these days. The cultural exchange itself is heartwarming beyond description, and I’ve seen tears on both sides of it.

“Don’t call my home phone, I’ll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead.”

It’s meaning in abstract is simple, but it’s actual manifestations are usually quite complex. Self-censorship for example: If you self-censor out of fear of a negative social reaction, to what degree is that actually someone else stopping you from talking? Everyone else, or the idea of everyone else? I would say that any view that’s held by a group of people that’s pervasive enough to cause others to calibrate their words towards them, any cultural context strong enough that visitors feel a need to adjust for it, automatically and unconsciously practices censorship.

The AI Shall Be Nazified

Damn, that sucks. The users there must be missing out on so many good Luigi memes

What’s up with threads?

It’s the second IME. We talk all the time about our concerns with the CPC, our hopes and disappointments with their foreign policy, and our thoughts on their political/economic situation. Critically discussing China is pretty much half of what we do in the news comm.

The people who say “I was banned just for being critical of China” never seem to want to specify what those criticisms were, but every time you go looking through the modlog you find the same shit: Commie hivemind spy balloon Winnie the Pooh uyhgur tinyman square. It’s like going up to some people talking about Korea and saying “don’t you weirdos know that they eat rats and push the trains by hand”? It’s not just the propaganda that gets them banned; everyone starts out full of propaganda, and most people here will paitently clarify things for you if you ask. No, it’s the smug doubling and tripling-down on ignorance at every turn that gets them the boot. Then they run back to their home instance to tell the story of how the tankies murdered them, and the mythology builds.

The “end” of the pandemic

Gettin into mycology. Oyster mushrooms are a good meat substitute, and easy to grow

Upping my smelting and casting game to start producing gears and gear-based machinery

Blind Drunk. I know for a near fact that nobody’s heard of them because they have like 2K subs, but they’re good as hell. They make a drinking game out of reading trash right wing books by people like Boris Johnson, Ben Shapiro, and the dork who wrote the Turner Diaries. But despite how messy and dark things could get with that premise, it’s some of the funniest, best put together and most insightful content I’ve ever seen on the subject of fascism and fascist psychology.

Love me some Peach Cobbler too.

The Menendez brothers are innocent! (of mass murder)