I’d be willing to bet humans also innately believe the earth is flat (in your day-to-day life it certainly doesn’t look like we’re on a spherical object hurling through space), but that doesn’t make it so.

Could the same not be said about Hexbear/Lemmy? While there certainly have been cases where people acting directly at the behest of capitol have been caught directly editing Wikipedia, these changes are typically caught and reversed.

These open platforms reflect the values and biases of the people who contribute to them. Leftists contribute to Hexbear. Liberals contribute to Wikipedia (because liberalism is the dominant global ideology). So it may appear that capitol is directly editing the pages, but in reality, capitol is manufacturing consent at a global scale, and that is reflected on Wikipedia because the consumers of that manufactured consent become the producers when they go to edit Wikipedia. When cracks in the neoliberal messaging begin to become evident to the masses, so too does Wikipedia reflect that: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/headlines/wikipedia_declares_adl_an_unreliable_source_on_the_israel_palestine_conflict

To be clear about timeframe, I’m talking early days of the TCP/IP protocol. Like when HTTP was being drafted, the days of BBSs. If you look at the fundamental design of the Internet, it was intended to be regulated by subject matter experts from around the world. Not for and by any one country, but for use by everyone, borders be damned.

Software monetization was certainly happening, but largely not by way of the Internet, software was sold in stores and magazines and by mail via floppy disks.

Like sure, it didn’t take long for nerds in their garages to figure out that their lists of URLs could be profitable, but this was not instantly recognized by the ruling class.

Wikipedia certainly isn’t perfect, liberalism is the primary global ideology so it should come as no surprise that most of the contributors are liberals and therefore liberalism is present throughout.

But open access to knowledge is a good thing. I much prefer liberal wiki which is free to anyone with an Internet connection than buying collections of liberal encyclopedias and then having to periodically rebuy them (and they were not cheap!) for updated information.

I recommend everyone read Techno-Feudalism by Yanis Varoufakis for a really solid Marxist analysis of the Internet. He described much better than I could how the Internet went from a free and open commons to a tool of oppression, and speculates how the Internet may one day become a tool for liberation.

I disagree. The Internet was mostly good in the early days, not because of the people using it, but because corporations hadn’t yet figured out how profitable it would become. Everything was free, the standards/protocols all open, if someone made a thing for the Internet it was because they thought it would be useful, not because they thought it would make them a lot of money.

Look at Wikipedia, one of the last remnants of the early Internet. It’s a mostly good tool because it hasn’t been overrun by profit motive.

Profit motives are destroying the Internet. Because profit is divorced from the actual value a thing provides. Enshitification works because a worse technology results in higher profits.

I’m sure they do, likely have their own internal security team as well as contract security work out. The purpose of hiring hackers isn’t to make the company unhackable, it’s to make it harder, more time consuming and costly to hack the company.

Science is that and so much more. Any imbecile can question the curvature of the earth. But if they aren’t actually building a model, formulating a falsifiable hypothesis, testing that hypothesis with a reproducible experiment, and publishing their findings for peer review, then they’re not doing science. That is pseudo-science and you are just a member of a cult.

Fuck off with your antivax bullshit. Don’t you have some new anti science to peddle?

Yeah good point. CCNA might be a decent choice too. Networking might be even preferable over tech support as it should be less time talking to strangers.

Yeah apparently twice convicted…

Not at all surprising to me. America is deeply reactionary. Made worse by the fact that our electoral system gives disproportionate representation to rural areas.

I’d be surprised if he spends even an hour in jail.

It’s cut off in Voyager for me as well.

Wow, who would have thought the fascist ethnostate state is queerphobic, I am shocked!

I mean, Drake is an anti Zionist, so this extra doesn’t make sense.

Not to mention, yasuke was a real, historical figure.

But yeah, we all know that gamers don’t give a shit about historical accuracy.

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Vultures is dog shit. Kanye fell off so hard.

MGMT album is great, probably my favorite on there.

Mary Boone from the vampire weekend song is really good, not crazy about the rest of the album though.

Justice was good, but only listened to it once.

Since your musical tastes are superior, what 2024 bangers you been listening to?