People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.

But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.

Like a wireless router?

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

Now that’s real GDP.

Honestly I’m more concerned with domestic law.

On the other hand, you know the Fortran works and you can break it.

The vibe code is already broken.

I’m still pounding the Fortran button as hard as I can.

Or they don’t care and just pay 30% more. Encouraging every other place to pull the same scam.

You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

Enough to use the stupid fucking fast food apps that need to ask which location I’m ordering from six times and every screen takes two seconds to load.

The scumbag behavior is from the employer. He’s only fighting fire with fire.

If you do multiple, give it time between each.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

It’s a switch. It’s clearly marked. It literally says “sponsored”.

We should extend it more. Maybe an extra two months on each end.

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.