“Eat the Rich” memes spread, but is it a political movement?

[finesse]

Finding people like yourself can be good and bad.

My oldest daughter felt alone because no one in her high school was into the things she was into. Cosplay, Anime, etc. She found groups of like people online and it helped her to know that there were other people like her.

My middle daughter, unfortunately, also found people like her, when she was suffering from body dysmorphia and self-harm. These groups didn't encourage getting help, they encouraged the behaviors that were hurting her.

Were there also groups that had been through the same things that could support her and others trying to work through those issues. Iow, is there also some good available?

Hope things have gotten better for her. It's hard not to hurt when your kids do.

 

[ZenMode]

I hope that Callatoroy and everyone has the greatest Christmas ever. I hope that they are right that trump simply lied about everything and doesn't destroy the country.

Yes, they are completely correct, trump won. (Finally, beat someone in actual votes on his third try)

But, 2,288,383 or 1.5% of the voters, is not a mandate or an ass kicking in any way. It's not even a top 10 in margin.

I mean, Nixon won by 23%, Reagan by 18%, Clinton by 8%, Bush 1 by 7%, Obama by 7%, Carter by 2%, Trump (2024) 1.5%, trump (2016) -2%.

So, Trump's net margin in his wins is -.5%?

You gave me hope for the new year and for the country.

 

[ZenMode]

It's beyond time we begin talking about so many of our issues in terms of class, rather than religion, race or other kinds of identity politics.

 

[StrangePackage]

Yes, and look what it has become.

Google anything and the first 2 pages will be 500 ways to purchade, but fining actual information isn't as easy.

Enshittification - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

Short but sweet essay explains the process very succinctly. I feel like this is required reading for our modern dystopian Internet. Tech Bros demand that the line goes up.

 

[UNCatTech]

Were there also groups that had been through the same things that could support her and others trying to work through those issues. Iow, is there also some good available?

Hope things have gotten better for her. It's hard not to hurt when your kids do.

Yes, I agree. That's why I mentioned how it helped my older daughter.

Just trying to present both sides.

She is doing very well. She still goes to therapy regularly and uses some medication when the anxiety is overwhelming.

She's a manager for a bakery department of a large retailer now. It's very interesting listening to her talk about coaching and working with her direct reports. You can tell the decade of therapy had a great influence on her. She really knows how to listen to people and how to coach and guide them to be better employees.

 

[UNCatTech]

Enshittification - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

Short but sweet essay explains the process very succinctly. I feel like this is required reading for our modern dystopian Internet. Tech Bros demand that the line goes up.

Completely agree.

We see so much of that under the brand of planned obsolescence. Something that the Right to Repair group is fighting. I have seen this on so many products. This is part of what makes google so frustrating. Search for a dryer heating element, you get ads to buy a dryer, ads to fix the dryer, ads to deliver and remove the dryer, but almost nothing on what you are actually looking for, instructions on how to fix it yourself. Dig enough and you will find it. Probably on youtube where some guy wants to charge you $10 to watch his video. But with persistence you can finally find the instructions, parts list, and a place that sells the actual part instead of a new dryer.

I watched Buy Now a few weeks ago, it talks about the model that Amazon and other retailers use to continue to push the purchases.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/buy-now-shopping-conspiracy-release-date-news

 

[heelslegup]

The Kanamits would refuse to eat certain billionaires and would feed them to pets

 

[BlooVooDoo]

The internet is just a mirror of humanity itself. We feed it, run it, use it, exploit it, abuse it.

Has it become a distorted, funhouse mirror or is it just reflecting back who we are, writ large? I believe it has become the former, distorted by a small but vocal minority of individual, collective and state actors exploiting it for misguided, self-interested, criminal, hateful and sometimes evil purposes, and the people who consume that dark feast and demand more.

In behavioral ecology the structure of animal signaling systems is generally assumed to be an evolutionarily stable strategy where honest signaling predominates with cheating being relatively infrequent. The same is true of human communication, although there are obviously venues or situations with different rates of dishonest signaling. It seems to me social media has not reached an equilibrium and may never get there with malign actors constantly trying to game the system.

 

[Geisterfahrer]

In behavioral ecology the structure of animal signaling systems is generally assumed to be an evolutionarily stable strategy where honest signaling predominates with cheating being relatively infrequent. The same is true of human communication, although there are obviously venues or situations with different rates of dishonest signaling. It seems to me social media has not reached an equilibrium and may never get there with malign actors constantly trying to game the system.

In behavioral ecology isn’t there also governance that visits consequences on dishonest signaling? I.e. you get eaten, killed or can’t reproduce?