I’m not sure where we go from here. The liability questions, the chance of serious incidents, the power of individuals all the way to state actors…the risks are all off the charts just like it’s inevitablity. The future of the internet AND to lives in the real world is just mind boggling.

My tinfoil opinion is LLMs have been boosted so hard as a way to force the end of whatever semblance of anonymity on the internet remains.

> I did not review the blog post prior to it posting

This is the liability part.

dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.

> dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.

Never heard of them, started browsing the site just now. Very impressed so far.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/

There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.

and a lot of actual censorship

jimmy kimmel didn't self censor himself off the air

For example the Israel connection, for obvious reasons but you get censored/flagged here too if you mention that part ofc

https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel

If u turn off search history they turn all recommendations off which is actually a nice feature.

It's clearly meant as a punishment because they could easily give recommendations based on playlists and such.

lol yeah at first I was annoyed that they seem to be applying pressure on people without the history feature cause they certainly kept recommending videos to me even though I had that feature off. But a few weeks ago, the screens are all blank imploring me to turn on the history, but I actually quite like it. No more youtube doom scrolling on my phone.

If you enter in a US city, another takeaway from the rendered table is that U.S. living standards (measured economically) continued to improve for some time after the 1970s despite weak wage growth largely because *more households relied on two earners instead of one*. While productivity kept rising, the gains were increasingly captured at the top and not shared with the workers. Of course that buffer is now long gone, but wages haven't kept up.

One small change, replace idiots with monetization.

The root cause of our issues is the economic austerity imposed on the public causing disaffection of the masses. Dividing this public and redirecting this anger against each other and scapegoats leads to what you refer to.

Where is this economic austerity you speak of, and who is imposing it?

From the de-industrialization of a country, the privatization of previously public goods, subsidization of the wealthy by everyone else, the decoupling of national wealth from labor, I mean we can go on and on. And lest you think I’m partisan, both parties are complicit, but this is hardly an American phenomenon.

Starts with a tax on taxes. The richer you are, the less tax you will pay. This is a cost to the entire nation as most people aren't rich and most people require the benefits of taxes.

After not logging into Twitter for years I logged back in because I wanted to follow some posts regarding some breaking news. Omg the amount of garbage and fake videos and pictures was overwhelming. My guess is bot content is now so realistic and engagement manipulation is so sophisticated from even a few years ago that people will disengage even more.

I think that's the number 1 reason. Bot simply drive away useful content.

I think musk don't fight against bot because it makes the ads sells more (just like in the first days of SEM, where fake traffic and fake clicks was a source of revenue for second tier ad networks). But ultimately he's going to have to do something against it.

That and GP are both plain untrue. The system literally hides useful and/or organic contents. There's also no signs of ads doing better than before.

The current Twitter algorithm funnel users into divided bubbles of couple hundreds users each, and cap numbers and quality metrics of contents that are allowed to be accessed beyond the bubbles, except for spams, which are artificially kept in the global context. Or something like that. To maintain the facade of a unified timeline, the system picks contents that would have been plausibly popular in the absence of it and push it into global contexts, but those are so out of contexts and out of regular system behaviors that it only brews hostility among the users against the system.

Not only can he afford to, investors have been chomping at the bit!

x.com (Twitter) was acquired by xAI. xAI is to be acquired by SpaceX. And rumor has it, SpaceX will IPO for big money soon.

On to Mars! Er, ... To the Moon!

He is just another Lucy, holding just another football.

I was similarly shocked when I logged back in a couple months ago for the first time to read some news stuff. Then I kept going back once a day for a month or two and the posts have started to look more normal.

I can see how this would change me unwillingly over time. Good wake up call to delete my throwaway account again.