logflume [they/them] @ logflume @hexbear.net

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Rita Repulsa was my childhood crush, so I’m cool with it

it's just more vegan struggle session dw

berry good post

i’m getting slangmogged by these children

it's becoming truer everyday that $1m is not enough to be considered "rich" thanks to inflation. the avg age of a millionaire in the US is 62 (approx retirement age for most countries in the world). if a 62yo owns their house and has enough to retire in the US, there's a large chance they're a "millionaire".

controversial, but i think someone's relation to capital is more important than their raw net worth. though tbf at some net worth number your relationship to capital does fundamentally change as something like investing in the stock market becomes enough proxy for ownership.

yes but have you considered your position in the kyriarchy

iirc it's just an accounting trick to dodge taxes and the CFO quitting is unrelated

but jesus christ that "political" cartoon is so fucked

marvel did it first

"yes, I voted for Hitler, but the alternative was even worse!"

they always tell on themselves

Bot farms are extremely common but at the same time very unsophisticated. LLM technology (like ChatGPT) is still nascent enough that bots aren't really using it yet. Most bot farms are dedicated to those shitty YouTube comments about making $500 a day working from home. The technology isn't there yet to make it pump up anything other than metrics - which is to say they're only used to signal boost rather than change opinions explicitly.

Astroturfing as you've noted is also extremely common though that's a metric that's harder to measure since they at least attempt to be slightly covert. It is pretty obvious when you look at the content and the compare it to the engagement. This stuff is still pretty manual and me being a software engineer have no idea how it actually works under the scenes. Bot farms I have a bit of expertise.

BUT these two tools are obviously used in tandem. A few "marketers"/"propagandists"/"influencers" make astroturfed posts and they hit the switch on the bot farms to signal boost them.

marg bar

but if i feed a soul coin to karlach she does an extra 1d4 fire damage while raging

countries have "rights" proportional to the amount of force they can enact

They're right secular states in the Middle East have always failed - just look at what happened to Libya and Iraq. Don't even get me started on Iran. /s

they don't have political beliefs they never do