This is exactly how voat died. There may have been an ounce of legitimacy early on. It veered into blatant far right accounts posting every top post. It’s obvious this kind of thing happens on lemmy too. Especially on certain instances. For now at least the federation model appears to be doing its thing.

The podcast called Sold a Story talks about how the school systems adopted a curriculum that doesn’t teach kids how to read. They are more like mimicking literacy. It gives appearances they they are reading but they aren’t comprehending.

Thiel funded reddit. He’s had his hands in it since 2014.

Americans love to preach about their rules. Especially about how uniquely exceptional the rules are. Turns out it’s all bullshit. They’re just another tinpot dictatorship ruling over a barbaric shithole.

This whole era of AI has certainly pushed the brink to existential crisis territory. I think some are even frightened to entertain the prospect that we may not be all that much better than meat machines who on a basic level do pattern matching drawing from the sum total of individual life experience (aka the dataset).

Higher reasoning is taught to humans. We have the capability. That’s why we spend the first quarter of our lives in education. Sometimes not all of us are able.

I’m sure it would certainly make waves if researchers did studies based on whether dumber humans are any different than AI.

We used to think some people aren’t capable of human intellect. Had a whole science to prove it too.

So is the red line crossed yet or is the goal post once again some indeterminate point in the future.

History won’t tell the beginning of the Trump regime at that indeterminate point. It began when he rode down that piss yellow escalator.