this article is about how and why four of the world’s largest corporations are intentionally centralizing the internet and selling us horseshit. it’s a fun and depressing read about crypto, the metaverse, AI, and the pattern of behavior that led to all of those being pushed in spite of their utter worthlessness. here’s some pull quotes:

Web 3.0 probably won’t involve the blockchain or NFTs in any meaningful way. We all may or may not one day join the metaverse and wear clunky goggles on our faces for the rest of our lives. And it feels increasingly unlikely that our graphic designers, artists, and illustrators will suddenly change their job titles to "prompt artist” anytime soon.

I can’t stress this point enough. The reason why GAMM and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.

The presumptive beneficiaries of this new land of milk and honey are so drunk with speculative power that they’ll promise us anything to win our hearts and minds. That anything includes magical virtual reality universes and robots with human-like intelligence. It’s the same faux-passionate anything that proclaimed crypto as the savior of the marginalized. The utter bullshit anything that would have us believe that the meek shall inherit the earth, and the powerful won’t do anything to stop it.

  • @zogwarg
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    5 months ago

    Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science bullshit!

    A picture of a triumphant "Girl Genius" webcomic protaganist holding a wand and exclaiming sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science

    From “Girl Genius

    • @froztbyte
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      65 months ago

      idly, replying from offsite? I see you use ^ but that makes subscript on lemmy instead of strikethrough

      or I guess it’s a style choice I’m not familiar with :D

      • @froztbyte
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        65 months ago

        oh, right as I send this, I see the update. lawl

        • @zogwarg
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          5 months ago

          I should have used the preview ^_^

          PS: Again!

          • @froztbyte
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            85 months ago

            Lemmy Posting Casino

            • @froztbyte
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              85 months ago

              I maaaaaay have just done a thing, because this was just an absolutely phenomenal fedi domain

              will see if I change my mind by next year

              • @bitofhope
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                55 months ago

                Creation Date: 2024-09-09T14:09:21Z

                Nice one

                • @froztbyte
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                  55 months ago

                  the renewal price is 🤨 but I’ll decide by then