to put it politely, politically intense.

You think?

One of the things I love about the Fediverse is how easy it is to avoid political content. So many good filtering settings under the hood, especially on Mastodon, but with Lemmy you can just subscribe to non-political content and make your subs your default home page.

We can be intense though.

It’s gotten a pretty good response, despite my channel being smaller. I think a lot of folks just don’t realize that there’s viable, enjoyable social media that is ad, AI, and algo-free.

Ah, thank you for the info.

I only mentioned ‘Lemmy’ in the video, but did include a link to a Lemmy instance database, so I presume those options are included.

I tried PeerTube and, unfortunately, found it terribly underwhelming. But thank you for the suggestion.

And, meanwhile, my friends who think themselves liberal also oppose any kind of regulation of social media.

I don’t get it.

Doubtful.

This is just a way for SpaceX to try further integrate itself into the spheres of government and public funding, and thus, make it easier to justify government bailouts.

Very glad that he is proving me wrong and I fucking wish he was eligible to run for president.

Oddly enough, one of my lifelong best friends is someone I met on bolt.com in the 90’s.

We’ve hung out in person half a dozen times but facetime and chat all the time.

Yup, they followed up with a Super Bowl ad to that effect, and the negative response was so strong that Ring/Amazon immediately walked it back.

Here’s one source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/investigators-wrangled-video-nancy-guthries-google-nest-camera-backend-rcna258460

I’m 100% sure it was Kash’s call, and he was just too stupid to realize what the FBI was inadvertently admitting to by releasing this footage.

Yup.

And they probably did ruin their Macbook, since Macs are designed to be irreparable on purpose and a ding like that may have affected screen functionality significantly.

they want all of that “spying on their own people” power for themselves.

My assumption as well, after after the video release in the Guthrie case, we know objectively that every device with a microphone or camera and a wireless connection is spying on us and feeding the data to the US government without a warrant too.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me despair more than anything else. That billion dollars they’re wasting could do so much fucking good in local jurisdictions all over the country, but instead, it’s being used to lock us further into a fossil fuel energy structure. Not only is this one singular asshole (and to be fair, his golf buddies) enough to turn back the clock on renewable energy, but in my town, we’ve experienced temperature swings of 70 degrees twice in the last ten days.

To me, it seems undeniable that climate change is escalating, but none of our federal legislators experience this because they’re all massively wealthy and insulated from the consequences. Bad weather? They hop on a plane Ted Cruz style and go somewhere else, or tuck themselves away in some McMansion that is energy-independent of the grid and climate-controlled. Ergo, it’s not their problem.

And over in China, fossil fuels are being burned at a massive rate because of the Iran War, which could very well drag on for years despite Donald’s assertions (and that’s what they are, unconfirmed assertions) that he’s supposedly gotten Iran to come to the negotiating table.

I’m just glad I never procreated. I’ll have to deal with the fallout of this shit, but I’m not rolling the boulder further downhill.

Thank you.

You’re wrong.

But that’s okay. Thank you for the reply. I hope you a nice day.

They already have all of that.

They did when you adopted smart phone and smart home technology, same with everyone else. They have it for most people because most people knowingly use corporate social media sites like TikTok, Facebook. Twitter/X, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, and the like, and those are collecting data too.

We know this objectively because the FBI just released footage in the Guthrie case that shouldn’t exist, and definitely shouldn’t be hanging out in a government database either.

You’re not protecting yourself or anyone by allowing these systems to access kids without any regulation whatsoever. I appreciate that it makes you feel good to think that you are, though.

That is factually incorrect.

It was exposed in 2014 that FB was running experiments on its users by tinkering with their news feeds, so culturally, conversations around this have been happening for at least twelve years, and tech addiction has been a known problem for at least a decade. These products are designed to be addictive, induce mental illness, and foment rage bait because it keeps eyes glued to ads, and the corporate media providers know this.

Now, we live in a world where it’s causing widespread mental illness in young people, because its effects are more pronounced in developing brains. This is a public health issue, and it’s not going to be solved with whoo whoo solutions like expecting parents to actually parent, because we can see from the last 5-10 years that this ‘solution’ is ineffective.

Regulation is necessary, whether it’s ID verification, or banning cell phone sales to kids, or even limited solutions like disallowing cell phone use in schools.

When education and talking with kids actually seems to be accomplishing something, I’ll agree that it’s a good solution.

We’re talking about ID verification because everything listed in the first part of this meme has failed (including, most importantly, depending on parental oversight) and we’re now at a point where the consequences require immediate regulation.