Tarnhelm for Android. 👍🏻

This isn’t much of an own. They vibe coded an OS. The fact that it works at all is enough. Days are numbered.

You actually blew my mind here. It never occurred to me that they might actually use ChatGPT to run the country. I was thinking unmanned drones, data combing/surveillance.

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Dear smart glasses wearers,

You’re colossal pieces of shit. And dumb as a bag of socks, morons who are paying companies for the privilege of spying on strangers without their consent. You’re helping to enable a world where privacy literally doesn’t exist and every public moment of every person’s life, whether they want to participate or not, is being mined and monetized by billionaires.

You are lower than pond scum. You’re the shit under the back of the toilet bowl that has never been cleaned. You are actually stupid. Like, actually braindead. You are paying actual money to be exploited. At least Facebook and Instagram are free. Seriously, what kind of dumbass would pay to have Mark Zuckerberg sit on their face all day? Fucking idiots. 🤣

Elaborate, plz.

I’ve never read the Parenti book. Thanks for the recommendation.

Pretty heartbreaking about Chomsky and Epstein. But, you’re right about Manufacturing Consent. Actually, Chomsky wasn’t much more than an editor. All of the key concepts and the methodology were Herman’s. Sure, the book wouldn’t have been so popular without Chomsky’s participation, but Herman could have written the book on his own, no question.

That’s cool then. Terrible haircut though.

Who’s the goober in the circle?

Those first few years, the Johnson years, were hopeful times. Circa 1870, things are clearly different. IIRC, middle of the book. It’s been awhile.

Like its title suggests, it delves into the ways in which popular consent is manufactured via the media (at the time - 1988 - mostly print, radio, and television). It’s thoroughly convincing and is that rare type of book that can discuss research without alienating casual readers. Highly recommended.

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Why did homie get banned?

It’s a doomsday cult.

I know it’s very, very cliche to mention Manufacturing Consent these days, but anyone who hasn’t read it really should get ahold of a copy and at least read the first 2 or 3 chapters.

Guy is a score-chaser. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got rid of unmanned drones so that he could get the high score for most casualties of war.

Seems to exist all over Lemmy. I’m new around here, migrated from Reddit just a week ago, but this kind of post would get downvoted into nothingness over there. Not for the message, obviously, but for the self-righteous indignation, the name calling, for just being one big spoiled brat temper tantrum. So far, it’s the only thing I miss.

https://shadowlibraries.github.io/ Anna’s Archive is your best bet.

Richardson has an awesome substack. Also, my favorite political commentator at the moment. She does daily news breakdowns on her Youtube.

You should read this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013667

And, also this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674008199

And then look into how elections changed after The Panic of 1873, but also as a result of public outcry over a half-dozen or so scandals during Grant’s presidency (Credit Mobilier, The Whiskey Ring, The Gold Ring, to name a few). “Weary” is an understatement. In reality, a majority of people in the North were done with the whole thing by '75. They wanted to focus on problems at home and were tired of supporting the South.

And I’m not your buddy, pal.

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Yes, absolutely.

I guess I’ll just take your word for it. I just don’t see how it would have been possible with almost the complete absence of a strong and expansive federal government combined with a general commitment on both sides to state’s rights, and the overall war-weariness of Northern voters.

… what the fuck do you think Reconstruction was?

A 10-year military enforcement that was flagging out there towards the end. You’d need to 20 - 30+ years minimum and the creation of a permanent federal admin presence to get to a point where the South’s new way of life could normalize. I could talk about this some more but apparently we just say “yes” around here. My fault for not realizing this was a meme community before I posted. For fun, look into what it took to “reconstruct” Germany and Japan post-WW2.

Yes, absolutely. Sharecropping is not actually great for the economy, and the South would remain economically marginal to the USA for decades afterwards.

No generational occupation, no long-lasting reform. As wasn’t discussed, because what good is conversation, the economics, politics, general belief in state’s rights, Northerner’s exhausted of war, the fact that the 15th Amendment was supported mainly as strategy for securing Republican political dominance in the South, that Northerners didn’t generally favor social integration, all meant what would have been nice to have happened just didn’t.

Yes. The only fucking reason Reconstruction ended in the first fucking place was a deal between the Democrats and Republicans over a disputed election.

This is you confusing what ought to be with what could have been. My question was very simple: given the the circumstances, what more could have be done? Certainly something, but enough to make modern American less of a “cesspool”. Hindsight is fucking 20 fucking fucker 20, fucker fucking fuck shit.

And you believe all of those things were not just possible but could have been sustained? Do you think they could have accomplished all of that without turning the Reconstruction into a generational occupation of the South? And you think it would have been economically viable and that the necessary long-term voter commitment would be there?