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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

The real title:

"Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Guess we can consider that a confession.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Zuckerberg, go play with your BBS and let us worry about what needs to be discussed in this myopic, dystopic world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

We're all terminally ill on a long enough timeline.

So... Was that an offer to be our chad?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

im canadian, i wouldnt want to cause ww3 by assassinating a foreign leader.

Sorry Americans, this is your mess, you gotta clean it up this time :/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

Isn't that already happening ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Thats a weird way of saying fascism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

And the fuck up samurai, we have new CEOs to [redacted]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

America was never a democracy in the first place

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Ya, but now you can't talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Hot singles want to FUCK in your area

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Welcome to Facebook the capital of Meta country, jokes aside, they are banning because it's a long term thing and they are scared of it derailing if too many people know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

What does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don't get a notification? How do you find out?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

you do a thing, but there are no interactions. maybe in only certain contexts. so to you it appears as if you're engaging, but your posts and sometimes reactions/votes don't show up except to you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

haha. seeing as I don't usually get much interaction I would never notice.

switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same... there is a good chance with all that's going on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

How do you find out?

I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quit Meta... problem solved

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

I have another solution, it's a little bloodier

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

I'm reading the Sprawl trilogy along with Shelved By Genre, and Gibson harps on the note that 'the Ultra Rich aren't human', and has some great examples in the books.

I think he was very observant, and Musk makes it so blatant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

The term cyberpunk was first used to describe settings such as Snowcrash, i.e. dystopian corporate sci-fi, before it was adopted as a name for the gaming franchise.

I'm not sure if the person you are replying to was using it as a noun or an adjective, I parsed it is an adjective because it's more inclusive.

Anyway.. using cyberpunk to refer to the game franchise, would be a disambiguation. This is the article referring to the original usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to cyberpunk as a genre and theme, I remembered some things after reading this post like shadowrun, cyberpunk ttrpg, Gibson's books, system shock, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I just tend to think of that stuff as corporate feudalism. And I learned that concept from playing shadowrun as a kid and then getting into other cyberpunk stuff.

And yeah, it seems to be the direction we are headed. Elon musk is a fan of blade runner and I don't think he identifies with the poor people but the rich CEO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

They're both nouns, but I get what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Yep, I just want more people to read the book because I like it. Cyberpunk the game rocks, Snowcrash rocks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

Basically. I mean there's a bit more to it than that but it's the core idea. It's also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn't want the peons to be able to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. I bet lobbyist play a big roll into that. Is it the lobbyists jobs that are bad or the way and the people who take the jobs are bad?

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