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

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Josh's quadrant MS paint rambling reminded me of this because its pretty much the same principle but about game releases. By Yahtzee Croshaw of ex-Zero Punctuation fame.

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THIS IS A PUBLIC CALLOUT POST TO @Null . WE ARE RISING UP! Nick, the totally real lawyer, pays his Jannies with personal striptease dances, however! You do not! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Is this open to negotiation? Would the jannies settle for an occasional truffle shuffle? In any event, I offer my services as mediator/arbitrator for access to the show.
 
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SPLC are just smug posting
ODYSEE: A DIGITAL THREAT
Online platforms and digital technologies such as Odysee become dangerous when they serve as a dumping ground for extremist and hateful content, or when they actively enable extremist and hateful behavior by providing moneymaking opportunities or valuable technical features.

Due to its lax stance on content moderation, Odysee has become a haven for individuals to store and create video content that would not be allowed on more mainstream platforms. For instance, Robert Warren “Azzmador” Ray, a fugitive wanted for his role in the violence at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has a very active channel on Odysee. Ray has been banned from most other mainstream platforms including YouTube, X (formerly known as Twitter) and the gaming-oriented video streaming platform DLive. The Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi organization with a presence in Sweden and other Nordic countries that some lawmakers have argued should be labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, maintains several Odysee channels, including at least one English-language channel designed for distributing propaganda. The Right Stuff podcast network and its affiliated National Justice Party, both white nationalist groups, maintain channels on Odysee after being banned from YouTube, X, and Facebook.


Odysee’s own executives have repeatedly defended their practice of allowing videos on the site that promote white supremacist material, conspiracy theories and misinformation. When asked about videos on Odysee that promote the Proud Boys, a militant far-right group whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, CEO Kauffman stated that groups like the Proud Boys “should be allowed to speak to others that want to hear them.”

Odysee has also introduced technical features and monetization options that Kauffman says set the platform apart from YouTube and other video-hosting sites, and that have added to Odysee’s appeal to extremists. The first is the inclusion of blockchain technology, which is the basis for the LBRY protocol that Odysee was built on. Kauffman promoted the LBRY protocol as “the most censorship-resistant system to ever exist for the purposes of publishing digital content.”

Odysee is also unique in the way it allows monetization of content through the use of a cryptocurrency called LBRY Credits (LBC). Content creators can receive payments in LBC based on such engagement metrics as the number of views their content has received.

Importantly, Odysee also includes more traditional monetization options for content creators, such as the ability to charge subscription fees, similar to such platforms as Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee, and to accept donations in the form of “tips,” like YouTube Superchats or StreamLabs Tipping.

These monetization options, coupled with the founders’ positioning of the platform as “censorship-resistant,” have made Odysee popular with content creators who have been removed from other sites for violating rules against hate speech and other harmful behavior.

HOW ODYSEE ENABLES EXTREMISTS TO EARN MONEY
To understand more about how Odysee enables fundraising, the Data Lab collected publicly posted information from 165 extremist channels using the platform to host 50,459 videos between April 24, 2021, and Aug. 31 of this year.

The Data Lab found that 113 of these channels had at least one video that earned at least one Hyperchat donation. Hyperchats are “tip”-style donations that are displayed next to a chat comment posted by the donor. Hyperchats can be paid in regular fiat currency including dollars and Euros or in LBC, the site cryptocurrency.

Using the data collected from each Odysee channel, the Data Lab calculated that this group of 113 channels solicited 40,316 Hyperchat donations from 4,557 different Odysee users, earning a total of $336,000.

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Not sure when/if Null is planning a Thanksgiving episode of MATI, but I have an outro song apropos of the holiday for his consideration.

I prefer this classic:


Also I haven't watched the latest episode so I'm sorry if it's been mentioned already, but Null you have to review this when it comes out.
Looks like kino is back on the menu kiwis
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.
 
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@Terrifik : YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT OUR PLANS FOR A MULTI-RACIAL FUTURE ARE GETTING IN THE WAY OF OUR PLANS FOR A MULTI-RACIAL FUTURE​

Beware Null, Max Karson aka mrgirl moved out of Los Angeles years ago. He now owns a home in Eugene, Oregon as documented by @Blav last year. You want to lookout for any accounts showing to be from that area instead of Los Angeles.
Now I know not everyone would cosign this line of thinking but if Mrgirl is Max Karson and Max Karson is a Jew and a pedo, and he for a time lived with Vito and Vito is a pedo then is it not highly likely that Vito is also a Jew? How do they make up 2% of the internet but 86% of lolcows?


How long until Silence of the Lambs is banned in the UK for being transphobic. You can't tell me there is a single woman alive in Jesus almighty's domain that wouldn't have a shiver run down their spine if they ran into this person on the street, you can tell there is something deeply disturbing hiding under the lotioned skin of this creature. If you could get away with it (and I know nobody can) you could make the most frightening analog horror by just showing footage of trannies with VHS static and a spooky narrator reading out their tweets, call it "Trans Day of Vengeance".

Enjoy pizza day.
 
Also I haven't watched the latest episode so I'm sorry if it's been mentioned already, but Null you have to review this when it comes out.
Looks like kino is back on the menu kiwis
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.
That almost sounds like an adaptation of "Excellence".
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Going off on a topic Jersh briefly mentioned.

Regarding the strange-on-its-face idea that the Amish need the same access to the internet as everyone else, because aren't they luddites by choice and probably don't even want the internet?

If you don't know much about the Amish, understand that the Amish are wild and untethered. What might be both surprising and unsurprising is that they are often total hypocrites about technology. Can't speak for all denominations, some sects are more restrictive than others, but their church leadership will rationalize whatever is most convenient. God says technology is ok, sometimes.

They draw a distinction between ownership of technology (which taints their community and simple lifestyle) compared to usage of it (which is totally fine). Like they will use power tools, and in the absence of electricity in their home will just use massive caches of batteries which they charge up at public locations in town. Or maybe if they own a business outside the home, God allows them to do whatever the hell they want on those premises including using computers and cell phones.

I've been told that many Amish already maintain a separate Amish internet which is closely monitored and policed by the church to make sure it isn't consumed by sin. I don't know how this manifests, it might be little more than a community web forum that's the only thing whitelisted.
 
Going off on a topic Jersh briefly mentioned.

Regarding the strange-on-its-face idea that the Amish need the same access to the internet as everyone else, because aren't they luddites by choice and probably don't even want the internet?

If you don't know much about the Amish, understand that the Amish are wild and untethered. What might be both surprising and unsurprising is that they are often total hypocrites about technology. Can't speak for all denominations, some sects are more restrictive than others, but their church leadership will rationalize whatever is most convenient. God says technology is ok, sometimes.

They draw a distinction between ownership of technology (which taints their community and simple lifestyle) compared to usage of it (which is totally fine). Like they will use power tools, and in the absence of electricity in their home will just use massive caches of batteries which they charge up at public locations in town. Or maybe if they own a business outside the home, God allows them to do whatever the hell they want on those premises including using computers and cell phones.

I've been told that many Amish already maintain a separate Amish internet which is closely monitored and policed by the church to make sure it isn't consumed by sin. I don't know how this manifests, it might be little more than a community web forum that's the only thing whitelisted.
I was under the impression that "technology that doesn't degrade the sense of community" is the cutoff and is pretty subjective to the local sect. Like there are communal phones at the end of streets for emergencies, and most will carry a cell phone while traveling, but a personal smartphone is a no-go. My experience is more with Mennonites, but Anabaptists are all really close enough together for an outsider.
Electric lights in their stores, but they still close at sundown. Logging trucks, but they plow fields with mules. It is a bit schizophrenic.
 
It's reminding me of right before weed started getting legalized. Some parts of the country would only have the shittiest trash weed, but they didn't know any better and they'd be smoking some dried out brown trash buds and telling themselves "oh shit, this is the Chronic! We're just like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg!" If you tried telling them it was actually shitty weed and the stuff in Cali would blow their minds, they'd get MAD at you. "Nah nigga, this shit loud as fuck. You trippin'." That's the current American cheese debate.
In my experience, Cali weed smokers are dumb mother fuckers. When I would ask pot heads what they were smoking, the responses would either be the species or "dat Cali shit man". And if you dare ask what 'dat Cali shit' is, the responses are always "the real shit man, dat good shit". They don't even know what they are smoking, in addition I'm no where close to Cali so the chances that it's even from there is slim. Not all pot is the same, not all Cali weed is the same.

Just like in the great cheese debate, those who think they know don't, and those who don't know are missing out.
 
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