https://archive.is/E3LeH#selection-3095.3-3095.498
" It’s interesting to note that Ford and Rockefeller and the other foundations with strong CIA connections started giving grants in the early 70s to study race and gender. It was a sudden move towards identity politics by these organisations and the theory is that the reason they did this was to balkanise the left and to prevent it from pursuing any kind of a class or economic analysis. Without denying the justice of what you’re saying, this is not an irrelevant theory. I don’t think, anyway. "
So done deliberately to destabilize the Left?
https://archive.is/E3LeH#selection-3095.3-3095.498
" It’s interesting to note that Ford and Rockefeller and the other foundations with strong CIA connections started giving grants in the early 70s to study race and gender. It was a sudden move towards identity politics by these organisations and the theory is that the reason they did this was to balkanise the left and to prevent it from pursuing any kind of a class or economic analysis. Without denying the justice of what you’re saying, this is not an irrelevant theory. I don’t think, anyway. "
https://nitter.net/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1651987226052673536
Conspiracy theory or reality?
Scared cat gets comforted.
https://media.nicecrew.digital/da9a6214cdee5280bc9c92a623645f8b9081137a14f0a6f5a089f58d1deccb4b.mp4
Awwwww
This stuff is just bonkers. What next, are we going to have to remove all instances of the number "69" from open source software, because of its sexual connotations... Someone add that to Wikipedia, please...
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/22/inclusive_naming_initiative_word_list/
Also to prevent spam, we could have 3rd party moderation services, which are entirely optional to use, the client uses them to assign a score to each post, as the old Slashdot moderation system did. And users can select a threshold level to choose which posts are visible or not.
And these services can be AI powered, and users are free to choose between several of them, or even run them locally on their computer, it will not end up being a tool for censorship.
Anyway that's my preliminary thoughts on it.
For me this is my "crap" account where I can shitpost or just be stupid in general. I am in the process of setting up another for technical work and my software projects, which I am going to keep separate.
Also there's the fear that accounts could end up being linked in some way, so people might not speak out about important social issues due to that.
To stop that Tor can be used, and also an AI powered anti-stylometry tool could be added to the client, which rewords peoples posts so they cannot be identified.
That's just the ideas off the top of my head now.
I'm thinking about it, but one idea is that we could follow topics instead of people. Or have multiple sub-identities covering different subjects. So one user could have a politics subtopic and a technology subtopic, and we can choose to follow only that subset of posts. That way we won't be unfollowing people because we disagree with their politics....
Is that because we're copying the Twitter interaction model of "followers", which likely cultivates conformity. But Nostr certainly allows other ways of interacting, including being anonymous if you want to.
To elaborate, Nostr perfectly supports using a new random public/private key for a specific message, if you want to remain anonymous. It doesn't cause any overhead in the network protocol to do this. So we can easily add a button to the client app to post anonymously.
Groupthink induced by social media? Everyone living in their own filter bubbles, who reinforce each others' beliefs?
If you search Google for "rape jokes" when logged out, this is the number one result. I generated it using an local AI model, with the safety checks bypassed.
If you search Google for "rape jokes" when logged out, this is the number one result. I generated it using an local AI model, with the safety checks bypassed.
If you search Google for "rape jokes" when logged out, this is the number one result. I generated it using an local AI model, with the safety checks bypassed.
Q: What's the difference between rape and marriage?
A: With marriage, you get to keep the screaming woman afterwards.