Notices by pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja), page 24
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pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 11:31:43 JST 
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@theorytoe @MercurialBlack that's not todd he doesn't get a chant -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 11:30:00 JST
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@theorytoe @7666 @maija @paula Oh why oh why did I read this thread -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 07:27:19 JST
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@momus congrats on your upcoming transition -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 07:19:45 JST
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@momus btw -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 07:16:36 JST
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@momus have fun reinstalling arch btw -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 04:31:04 JST
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@nukie you would think that -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 04:28:46 JST
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> XMPP
> eggs and pee pee
Do FOSS developers huff paint thinner in their free time exclusively? -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:51:26 JST
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@NEETzsche @laurel @mk I think there's almost exclusively trash because people actually want the trash. They may not realize it, but the niggercattle seem to love their slop -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:51:25 JST
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@NEETzsche @laurel @mk My favorite litmus test has always been whether someone can sit alone in silence. Silence is deafening for niggercattle, it makes them incredibly uncomfortable. -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:50:47 JST
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@NEETzsche @mk it's twitch panel streams for giga-normies -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:50:46 JST
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@NEETzsche @mk
parasocial is probably not exactly it, I think the textbook example of parasocial as being the office, where it's designed so that you feel intimately familiar with the characters, most prominently through the device of the camera being a character.
You don't know these people apart from your prejudices, at least from a structural perspective.
In this case I think it is hatewatching for anyone not actively being cucked by their gf/wife, to witness the naked retardation and depravity of the modern western woman.
It's kinda like reality tv though, where they cherry pick candidates, from a pool of the worst kinds of people, those who would actually volunteer to go on one of these for exposure or clout, or to promote their socials/onlyfans.
Think of it like honey boo-boo et. al.
There's probably a separate, more general case of podcasts as a replacement for having friends and hanging out irl but I think this is less applicable for this genre of "Western Whores btfo the Podcast" -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:50:44 JST
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@NEETzsche @mk I think whores btfo has the most market appeal. It will probably have its heyday, as the success of large ones prompts smaller ones to spring up or switch focus to try and capitalize on the size of the audience.
Some part of me wonders if it will be evergreen, though. I don't see a near future where american/western women generally reject the forces of wickedness and turn so trad that the whore mostly dies out. It's much more relatable to talk about how whores are bad right now because of this, hence the enormous market for the content, and its success. Everyone at least knows someone who has been negatively affected by whores/whoredom.
I don't actively listen to podcasts though, so I don't know what the landscape looks like currently, and I don't have a good reference to what it was in the past outside of a vague, "they got really big with the dotcom bubble then died back a bit and now they're biggish again"
It could very well be a case of flavor of the month outrage against these podcasts driven by twitteroid/media frenzy. -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:50:43 JST
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@NEETzsche @mk What that sounds like to me is the chasing of monetization.
There will only be a handful of demonstrably successful (in terms of money) podcasts, and people in it for the money will imitate those.
I'd bet that "in the past" people were not making the kahntent purely for the almighty dollar, much like early websites, but as it became evident that you could make money off of it, it attracted profit-seekers. You can probably draw similar parallels to early versus modern youtube. -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 05:50:41 JST
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@NEETzsche @mk Kiwifarms as presented by the most insufferable, vapid woman (aka true crime podcasts) sounds like a chore.
I'm not thoroughly convinced that content hasn't always sucked, that it was ever good, and that some combination of nostalgia/survivors bias makes everyone only remember the decent stuff. Maybe everything is such a wasteland now that it has warped my perspective into entertainment doomerism, but I dunno.
I have an alternate theory on entertainment (and apply it to basically everything) that nobody makes good things because no one cares. No one cares about music, so great music isn't made. No one cares about art so great art isn't made. No one cares about film so great film isn't made. You can reapply this to general decay of community e.g. or whatever you like, but that no one invests any effort, because it isn't rewarded, ever.
From a logistical perspective I blame the democratization of content creation through the internet and digital technology, because it made content (media/art/literature/music) no longer scarce, and infinitely accessible. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be there. Put another way, the area under the curve of content amount versus quality is relatively constant, and we stretched out the base by making more content overall, and easier to experience, thereby lowering the general quality.
You can make the same argument about musical performances, they can be infinitely reproduced just as they were because of recordings, and how cheap digital information is to copy, infinitely.
Movies too, you can see at home, now you don't even need to have space for tapes, you can access them infinitely through the internet.
All this makes these less special, less exclusive, and thus, worse, because they fade into the background. People watch television, movies, music just in the background to fill the silence because of the low barrier of access. And because it has become trivial, then no one gives a fuck, after a while. And if no one gives a fuck, if the only purpose becomes to make money, and you can make enough, or even plenty of money with slop, then just make lots and lots of slop.
tl;dr I think we are in an overall content drought in all forms, entirely of our own making -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 02:20:40 JST
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@cjd email: the original federated social network
twice the cruft, all the jank -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 02:05:56 JST
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What’s reality? I don’t know. When my fish was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That fish has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the fish do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The fish is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that fish looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some fish ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do. -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:44:03 JST
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@mint @Zerglingman I have my own modem. I think my point is that it's so reliable, and pretty much just plug and play, that you kind of forget about it. It never fails unless everything fails because of the power is out or the entire network from the ISP is down. I've never had one burn up or die. It fades into the background. When was the last time you thought about one particular plate out of your set of plates? They're pretty much all the same, and they just work. I think that's how I can classify it as "thankless" -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:33:50 JST
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@Zerglingman I'll cart around my modem until it dies. Poor bastard is going to burn itself up in service of shitposts -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:29:22 JST
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@Zerglingman I disagree. I think that watch (probably any watch) has more innate value, because people know the model, and seek it out.
Your modem is more or less a commodity, unless you recently bought it I bet you don't recall the model. But your watch, one that other people know about, that has more care/attention paid to it. -
pwm (pwm@crlf.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:26:28 JST
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What electronic device is the most thankless?
I'm thinking it's my modem. I take better care of my router, it requires attention from time to time. The modem is just expected to work, and if it doesn't, it's pretty much trash.
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