yeah, the information age hit us before we could come up with an education age
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We made it way too easy for morons to get online. Folks who don't even know what a "packet" is can livestream their anus on TikTok, and capitalism is fine with that because it's "monetized".
nobody wants to adopt my "everybody gets arch only" platform
No. Everyone gets Temple OS.
We made it too easy for morons to find each other and unite.
I'm pretty sure future historians are gonna end up calling this the "Misinformation Age" instead.
i like it, because it's kind of ironic. the term used by the us govt is "disinformation". so calling it the "misinformation age" tracks perfectly.
Misinformation and disinformation are not the same (in German at least?).
Misinformation is when information is wrong on purpose, to misinform someone. Disinformation is when information is just wrong, like when someone said something by accident that wasn't correct.
In English I look at it the opposite way:
Misinformation = MIStake or accident
Disinformation = “dissing” of information, or intentionally putting it down/lying about it
apparently we're all just victims of English doing that stupid thing it tends to do..
Well that’s clear as mud 🤣 Maybe I’ll just use “lies” instead!
yeah.. but are they dis-lies or mis-lies? or does the story be-lie the truth? i think i need to lie down.
i agree with your actual, literal meaning of the two words. i'm facetiously referring to a (likely urban) legend where the way to tell "shills" from the "real" conspiracy insiders is that their use of the word "misinformation" belies their ruse, as the us government only uses the term "disinformation".
I like it because it implies the good guys do EVENTUALLY win and set this shit right.
you just made me do that whole "shift perspective and think of what it would mean to the winning team if the winning team are the bad guys" thing. the "war on misinformation" may well be one of overcoming ridiculous like freedom, equality, and dissent. yikes.
It really sometimes depresses me to think how far along those utopian futures we could be if we as a species didn't have to spend so much of our lives and potential counteracting bad faith sociopathic saboteurs to progress.
Maybe history is just 75% of the people mostly at a stalemate with 25% whose empathy-deficient mental illnesses give them an edge in obtaining power and resources.
The fact that this is considered a political meme :(
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid's relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World's Fair.
I'll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I'll happen to be there, but it'll be hard to maintain any real optimism.
Id love if they cared about sources, what
Technology made us regress
Only because people misuse it. As people of Earth, born and beholden to the dirt itself, technology and science should be used to better connect ourselves with nature and help facilitate relations between all things, for the benefit of all things. Instead, we use technology and science to distance ourselves from nature, coming from the false assumption that we are somehow seperate from or above nature. It is beyond human control, always has been, and it won't be long until the relations and environment will cut those arrogant humans down to size in what they call "a catastrophe of global proportions." We are not special, unless discussing how especially weak humans are - weakness to provide food for ourselves and relying on reason and intellect is what makes special. Humans only survived as long as we have due to our ability to understand the relations of our world, and our ecological niche is to help facilitate those relations not just between people, but the mountains and the water and the birds. Instead we turn that mountain into gravel and call it "development", pollute our water by using it as coolant for a factory, silence the bird songs more and more each year, and reduce human beings into "workers." This is true whether you're right or left, capitalist or socialist, there is no "revolution" within that mindset, only continuation. Industrialism at all costs because "science will find a way" will doom us.
There is another way, a way that understands we have no right to take from mother nature. That wealth is meaningless unless you give it away. I dream of a solarpunk world where buildings are grown, where food grows literally everywhere, with massive urban metropolises that resemble rainforests, where cities are built to clean water instead of pollute it, where technology can genetically supercharge trees so that they grow solarcell leaves to power our homes, where education is exploration, where all animals have right to roam, where we understand our living biosphere so well we're able to replicate that process on other planets. Why are we even considering space travel if we don't even know how to live on our own planet? Why do we create these gadgets and gizmos only for competitive profits and not the betterment of mankind? Why do we require people to have money for food and teaching them how to obey their superiors at a workplace, instead of teaching people how to grow their own food and learning about the relations of natural things? Why aren't we investing as much into lab-grown meat as we are into killing animals? It all goes back to our attitude towards nature, and this horrible religious mindset that thinks we are god.
You aren’t wrong. What I said was more of a joke than truth. What I should say is: social media driven by algorithms was the biggest mistake of all.
Yeah I'd put it up there with MTV reality shows of the 2000's.
On point 😂😭
We came so close to having the beginning of back to the future part 2. But instead, we have the second half of back to the future part 2 where Biff steals the sports almanac and Marty is unsuccessful to take it back.
He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?
I believe when they made back to the future that the character of Biff was meant to be trump.
We don't have to worry about flat Earthers anymore, they all joined Q-Anon.
The little angry meme man makes me happy.
I always daydreamed life would someday look like the cover of Somewhere in time by Iron Maiden:
(Meme from 2019)
2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down
Bots and bad actors; bots and bad actors.
sauce??? checkmate dumbass
This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.
The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can't trust sources, especially official sources of course.
And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it's very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.
PS: earth is definitely round, I'm not trying the defend their theory.
We can build the above picture but why would we, you're creating tunnels where they aren't necessary.
You are robbing the people going through these tunnels from the nature and daylight around it