ChunkMcHorkle

Imagine it is two weeks before a major election in a closely contested state. A controversial ballot measure is on the line. Suddenly, a wave of posts floods X, Reddit, and Facebook, all pushing the same narrative, all amplifying each other, all generating the appearance of a massive grassroots movement. Except none of it is real. …Trust in the information people encounter on X, Facebook, and Reddit, already eroded, could fall even farther.

It’s much more difficult to be propagandized by any means, including autonomous AI, when you’re not freely offering up your own time and devices daily to have it fed to you, individualized just for you by means of your own data, which you are also donating to the cause of propagandizing you.

I get why people do, there are lots of good reasons, but at a certain point the good outweighs the bad. And there’s no time like the present to make a change.

So if you’re reading this and you are still interacting with these centralized corporate-owned propaganda sites regularly, maybe it’s time to rethink that strategy.

The counting/tabulation is where the fuckery occurs, but you’re lucky to have a paper receipt anyway. I have voted in several states and gotten nothing but a sticker.

At one point there were negative 16,000 votes for Gore in Volusia County, Florida.

So yeah, it absolutely did work for George W. Bush. And for John Roberts too, the low-level lawyer whose work on the resulting Bush v. Gore lawsuit that put Bush in the White House afterward catapulted him from mere attorney, to federal judge, to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the span of only five years.

At this point, I’d be thrilled if just one thing – elections – went back to paper. I feel like paper ballots would have solved at least some of this current insanity already.

anna’s archive

I wish. As someone astutely put it in another conversation, now that the tech companies have pilfered Anna’s Archive, the big publishers are going to try to get it shut down.

Meta have paid the copyright fee

Lol, no. “Copyright fees” are what you pay your government in order to register your copyright or keep your copyright registration active.

Or to put it another way, copyright fees have fuck all to do with fair use.

You’re trying make it sound as though Meta obtained consent and paid authors for their own work when in fact, Meta obtained consent from no one, and paid nothing at all to anyone, in exchange for the use of their works.

Even a light skim of the attached article would have told you that much. What do you think a copyright suit is about?

“Meta have paid the copyright fee,” lol. That’s some r/ConfidentlyIncorrect shit right there. Why did you even bother?