Who needs Minecraft? Play Voxelibre instead!

https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/

https://www.luanti.org/en/

I wonder if when he was trying to leave the office with his desk stuff in a box the electric doorhandle to the exit door failed and he had to awkwardly stand there in front of the whole office waiting for maintenance.

Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.

I am a child of the generation obliterated by half solutions and illusions of reform, I don’t disagree with you in general but in some specific situations such as this I wholeheartedly believe temporary insufficient solutions that participate in a collective delusion of longterm viability are extremely dangerous and inevitably produce suffocating cynicism in people.

I think a lot of them moved to bluesky

facepalm

I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.

If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.

This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.

You are bad at arguments.

No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

Try harder with formulating your arguments please.

:)

Ok so sounds like the problem isn’t actually social media then?

Rather it is a question of the choices we make about the architecture and design of social media.

Why are you here then?

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.

Yeah, someone let those nerds in.

As a form of protest create README txt files everywhere that say things like “I wish I was using linux” and “friends don’t let friends use windows”.

Does “no censorship” mean “no moderation”?

You should go away and stop wildly fear mongering.

I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]

Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.

It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.