Original post: mastodon.social (Mastodon)
Stop blaming technology and start blaming humanity.
Grok, is this tweet reliable information?
We?
Idk about you, but I only trust news from a certified primary source like… checks notes… Bari Weiss and the Free Press?
Aw fuck, dude. They get Internet in my main steam media
I prefer getting my news from cryptic symbolism in my dreams
It smells irony in here.
I agree with this screenshot of a tweet
Is that really any different than believing everything you hear on TV or believing everything you read in the newspaper? A lot of what we’re taught in school shouldn’t be believed either honestly.
Yes it is different. TV had broadcasting standards and twitter has absolutely nothing.
You really believe that traditional media is truthful with people? Have you never heard the term “manufacturing consent”? Have you never heard of Fox News lol?
I didnt say they were truthful I said they had broadcasting standards.
Also fox news was fined over a billion for lying and lost a ton of viewers to alt media because they couldn’t legally be as extreme as alt media platforms. Also manufacturing consent is a meme response, it would apply to any broadcasting on any platform.
Fox was never fined, they where sued by “Dominion Voting Systems Corporation” for defamation and settled out of court for close to 800m. No government body penalized Fox for lying.
it would apply to any broadcasting on any platform.
How is that not the case? Instead of Rupert Murdoch lying to you now it’s Elon Musk, new media is just an evolution of the same bullshit.
Fox was never fined, they where sued by “Dominion Voting Systems Corporation” for defamation and settled out of court for close to 800m. No government body penalized Fox for lying.
You’re completely right and after looking into it further I was wrong. I thought that because the US had broadcast licenses the FCC enforced a broadcasting standard but after further research and because of the weird obsession with free speech. In America you’re right there is no difference between new and alt media. I still think that in other countries where broadcasters are held to a standard there is a big difference between the two.
The time of “don’t trust everything on the internet” was also time of “news on TV can’t lie”, so not much of a change. But how humanity is handling technology is definitely something to fix or else more suffering will come
And it’s the same generation that told us these things.
In one generation? In zero generations. The same people who 20 years ago were telling their kids “everyone online is a pedophile” are the exact same ones who insist on “leave poor Trump alone, democrats eat babies in pizza basements”.
“leave poor Trump alone, democrats eat babies in pizza basements”.
I hate that I know what all of those words mean when they are put together like that. Ugh.
now this is what i call irony 😎
And now we’ve moved well last tweets to unquestionably accepting AI slop as gospel.
It’s shifting the thinking process to someone people assume are knowledgeable. We’ve done it since the dawn of time from depending on tribe leaders, religious leaders, kings, government, scientists, influencers now currently to supposed “AI”.
It really didn’t matter if they were right, wrong or making things up along the way. It’s how stuff like religion from thousand years ago still persist.
It’s really not out of character.
you skipped “economists”, the holiest of storytellers.
I think he was limiting himself to people who seem believable.
you don’t need to believe everything you read on the Internet to build a worldview from screenshots of tweets. there is no contradiction
Your worldview should probably be informed by some longform texts, as well.
ADHD memes helped me realize I might be neuro-spicy and seek testing and counseling in my forties.
That doesn’t make succumbing to propaganda online any better, but, you know, silver linings
That means it’s working! Your enragement algorithm has been replaced by a FOSS-using community that wants to see you thrive.
Imagine if social media instead encouraged everyone to become their best self. Make sure to tell your friends about Lemmy.
Ben Steed is crying tears of seething smugness over being so very right.
I dont condone his weird views on women. But his depiction of reliance on technology going so very wrong is really hitting the nail on the head.
I don’t know who that is.
Can someone link me a screenshot of his tweets ?
