"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Temperance]

For the news segment tomorrow:

The global recession continues to hit tech companies hard. There seems to be a trend forming where they're wanting to delete old user accounts & content as a cost-cutting measure. The (digital) Burning of the Library of Alexandria is coming soon.

Musk said last week [archive] that Twitter is going to start purging accounts that have been inactive "for several years".

His bad excuse is that username handles need to be freed up. After getting some backlash, he claimed the deleted accounts will be archived somehow, but provided no details about this.

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Google has now followed suit. [Reuters] [Archive] [A&N]

Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to prevent security threats including hacks.

The company said that if a Google account had not been used or signed into for at least two years, it might delete the account and content across Google Workspace, which includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet and Calendar, as well as YouTube and Google Photos.

"Security threats", btw... It's totally not that they're trying to pinch pennies now that the money faucet is running dry.

Google has unsurprisingly gotten backlash for this, especially from people worried about old Youtube videos disappearing. Google has since edited their blogpost to promise that they won't be deleting old accounts with uploaded Youtube videos... for now.

Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar) and Google Photos.

Additionally, we do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time.

They're still going to delete other old accounts, and I have no doubt they're hoping to delete old, unprofitable Youtube videos sometime in the future after the heat dies down.

It's also worth mentioning that Youtube is experimenting with banning ad blockers.

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This is from last month, but Imgur is also purging their old content.

The company says it has a new terms of service coming into effect on May 15th and that, as a result, it’ll be removing “nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content” from its platform as well as “old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.”

The article focuses on Imgur removing pornography, but it also mentions deleting content that was uploaded anonymously (without a proper Imgur account), which I suspect could be a majority of all old content. Especially considering how Imgur used to be used primarily by Redditors who just needed an image host.

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Tangentially related to all of the above, but the media company VICE filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week and will be selling off its assets. [1] [2]

Also, corporate bankruptcies are up 216% so far this year, but don't you dare say we're in a recession!!!

Chilling new data from the S&P shows corporate bankruptcy is soaring, yet the U.S. is not technically in a recession.

The most recent S&P data show 2023 corporate bankruptcies rising at an alarming clip.

Some experts and researchers believe that the Fed's past easy money policy, coupled with the failing of multiple banks and extreme hesitancy by those that remain, may set up the average American consumer for a "combination credit crunch plus recession."

Yet other officials say a soft landing is still possible. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on May 8 that she hopes "we will be on the good path to a so-called soft landing" despite the U.S. running up against its debt ceiling, potentially defaulting on its debt, regional bank pressure mounting, tightening lending conditions, and "some of the heat coming out of the labor market."

 

[Lidl Drip]

Maybe one day we will go a full week without some faggots talking about anime that Null will never watch.

 

[Coalescence]

Worth mentioning during the news roundup tomorrow; Montana Governor signs bill banning TikTok from operating within the state.

 

[Berrakh]

Samus Aran

Because it’s a woman who is super strong? Isn’t that admitting they’re biologically male?

 

[Wodanaz]

Article linked in previous one about Internet fragmentation, this one is about the possible massive disruption AI will cause. I really think Josh should read this.

At this juncture, the guiding assumption that technological progress will always redound to humanity’s long-term benefit can no longer hold. Instead of worrying about AI spreading misinformation or aligning with the wrong ideologies, we should acknowledge the degradation of human cognitive and creative faculties at the hands of a million convenient applications. This process isn’t a matter of prophetic science fiction: It is already underway.

The liberatory promises of the 1990s, the high point of the Californian Ideology, have led over the past decade and a half to mass epistemic fragmentation and social-cognitive degeneration: ever-shorter attention spans; a tribalized and post-rational society; citizens who are far less literate, creative, or capable of critical and abstract thinking than their forebears; human beings who are lonelier, more atomized, and prone to mental illness; a public discourse mired in the shallow and ephemeral; a nation stuck in a never-ending present—unable to remember its past or to imagine its future. All this was the result of outsourcing the processes of human thought and socialization to the algorithm. The ongoing drive to do the same with more and exponentially greater forms of machine intelligence are the culmination of these civilization-dissolving trends.

https://archive.is/tBXcT

 

[Oxyjen]

Article linked in previous one about Internet fragmentation, this one is about the possible massive disruption AI will cause. I really think Josh should read this.

I keep getting the feeling that something significant is going to happen in the AI realm pretty soon, to the point where it might be best for humans to not be on the clear web in any way shape or form.

 

[Berrakh]

The problem is that...Death Note sucks after the first half and L dies.

So the problem is that you only have to watch half of it? Sounds like a bonus to me. #mindset

 

[Flexo]

I keep getting the feeling that something significant is going to happen in the AI realm pretty soon, to the point where it might be best for humans to not be on the clear web in any way shape or form.

What are you worried about? You can always trust your old pal.... Flexo...

Hey what's your address again? I got this flower bouquet to deliver to you.

 

[Spud]

And The tax guy reveals that he dated a tranny

MFW the Taxman will suck tranny dick

 

[JackoVerde]

https://vocaroo.com/15ffmUbVY4W0

this quote would come to haunt us later.

 

[Dyn]

Anime is for degenerate faggots and pedophiles.

 

[Sneeds]

The superchats are buckbreaking Null's mind

Also icuckkks made a new video

He apologizes for the "cruel and hurtful" content he's made over the years
Here's some time stamps for Null, there's more stuff he said after the last timestamp. But I had to do something.
3:49 "Casual racism is still racism and Casual bigotry is still Bigotry"
4:51 If you want to look out for red flags is definitely people that say "i'm not responsible for what my audience does
5:24 I've profited off of this bigoted content for years and made a successful career out of it and thqats not right.
5:51 I turned on ads for this video and I'm going to match that revenue that I make on this video. and donate it to an organization that may have been affected by my videos
6:27 Now that I feel like it doesn't represents me, I'm going to distance myself from it and keep it from indoctrinating more people.
6:35 I like to unlist the videos

iDubbbz is officially buckbroken

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Anime is for degenerate faggots and pedophiles.

You must love anime then

 

[Dyn]

You must love anime then

I'm not a faggot.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

The superchats are buckbreaking Null's mind

He sounds on the verge of pulling the trigger.

I'm not a faggot.

Whatever you say, Dyn-deary.

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

Also icuckkks made a new video

He apologizes for the "cruel and hurtful" content he's made over the years
3:49 "Casual racism is still racism and Casual bigotry is still Bigotry"
4:51 If you want to look out for red flags is definitely people that say "i'm not responsible for what my audience does
5:24 I've profited off of this bigoted content for years and made a successful career out of it and thqats not right.
5:51 I turned on ads for this video and I'm going to match that revenue that I make on this video. and donate it to an organization that may have been affected by my videos
6:27 Now that I feel like it doesn't represents me, I'm going to distance myself from it and keep it from indoctrinating more people.
6:35 I like to unlist the videos
iDubbbz is officially buckbroken

The next MATI would be incomplete if the review of this Idubbz apology wasn't instantly followed by a review of:

Content Cop - TOY REVIEW CHANNELS (GIANT SURPRISE EGG)

Content Cop - AMATEUR FOOD REVIEWERS​

Especially since he tried to get them gone.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Figured with all of the trans shit going on seeing one actually deal with the consequences of their actions would be a bit of levity.

One of the tranny's connected to Dylan Maloney is going to be deported. The thread nicknamed him Trugget.


Dude was here under a medical visa as a child due to his disabilities since he was abandoned as a child and got internationally adopted. Yet decided to never finish becoming a us citizen it seems.

He was a motivational speaker and body builder.


Then got caught up in the trans shit states hes a female and became a makeup tiktoker.

Now instead of posting motivational content about being able to be fit as a severely disabled man he posts this shit with his husband.

 

[sneedem&feedem]

Could Null please give some thoughts on part of this video? Specifically from when he and Nick were on stream together recently. If the timestamp doesn't work, it starts at 1:48 and ends at about 5:03.

 

[Nick Obre]

Because it’s a woman who is super strong? Isn’t that admitting they’re biologically male?

I think it was actually some bullshit trend started by our dear John "Brianna Wu" Flynt, basing his claims on something one dev of the original Metroid said. It wasn't the creator, a lead dev, or a character designer, or a writer, or anything important; if I recall correctly, he did I think some part of map design or something like that, and said that he thought of Samus as a man initially or something like that.

Johnny boy ran with it as UNDENIABLE PROOF that Samus is trans, and the trannies took it as gospel, despite mountains of evidence, from all the info about Samus from subsequent games (the first one didn't have much info, as you may know it only reveals Samus is a woman at the very end, and does so only visually), or even the official manga commissioned by Nintendo, that clearly shows a young Samus as a little girl.

BUT NO, SAMUS IS TRANS BECAUSE SOME GUY WHO DID GRAPHIC TILESETS OR SOME SHIT SAID SOMETHING THAT COULD BE INTERPRETED THAT WAY IF YOU SQUINT, AND IF IT EVEN WAS TRANSLATED ACCURATELY TO BEGIN WITH

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

The superchats are buckbreaking Null's mind
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Also icuckkks made a new video

He apologizes for the "cruel and hurtful" content he's made over the years
Here's some time stamps for Null, there's more stuff he said after the last timestamp. But I had to do something.
3:49 "Casual racism is still racism and Casual bigotry is still Bigotry"
4:51 If you want to look out for red flags is definitely people that say "i'm not responsible for what my audience does
5:24 I've profited off of this bigoted content for years and made a successful career out of it and thqats not right.
5:51 I turned on ads for this video and I'm going to match that revenue that I make on this video. and donate it to an organization that may have been affected by my videos
6:27 Now that I feel like it doesn't represents me, I'm going to distance myself from it and keep it from indoctrinating more people.
6:35 I like to unlist the videos

iDubbbz is officially buckbroken

The funny part is that Idubbz had to do nothing. But his or his "wife" ego got in the way and he has to better than Sam Hyde. The doc about Sam completely buck broke him , Sam makes edgy content but got a second wind because of the doc and doing extremely well for himself. In Ian mind him clowning on Sam was suppose to him moving now , but it complete backfired making Ian the washed up broke loser with a whore wife that is broke.
Edit: Also this what happens a guy with mommy issues marries a girl with daddy issues.