Gatov, who is the former head of Russia's state newswire's media analytics laboratory, told BuzzFeed the documents were part of long-term Kremlin plans to swamp the internet with comments. "Armies of bots were ready to participate in media wars, and the question was only how to think their work through," he said. "Someone sold the thought that Western media, which specifically have to align their interests with their audience, won't be able to ignore saturated pro-Russian campaigns and will have to change the tone of their Russia coverage to placate their angry readers."
We all know success
When we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough
To knock down any walls
And the future's been seen
As men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
I listened and I heard
Music in a word John 1:1
song, The Who, 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYTo11KmR4
MockForMock is a fascinating phenomenon that emerged in March 2013, and it's like a digital street gang on the information superhighways. Let me break it down for you:
Definition: MockForMock is an online movement characterized by weaponized mocking. It's a form of information warfare where absurdity reigns supreme. The goal? To render all resistance futile by turning everything into a total mockery.
How It Works: Imagine a world where absurdity is the norm. Leaders mock each other, citizens mock their leaders, and even the most serious issues are met with a dose of ridicule. It's a topsy-turvy universe where the only response to Kremlin-level absurdity is to be absurd right back.
Examples:
In this brave new world, where mockery is hypernormalized, reason takes a back seat, and absurdity rules the day. Welcome to the era of MockForMock! 🤪🍌
Agreed. It is urgent that we teach Neil Postman's "media ecology". The junk noise garbage shit Internet sucks, and enough is enough!
ELKG: "Trickle down economics" is a lie, but there is a truth that nobody speaks "Trickle down memes". Billion dollars of capital spent making movies that fill all the meme networks. And audiences who bitch and complain if one CGI scene has the slightest distortion, who bitch about production quality at every opportunity. They are addicted to the billionaires who fund their "Trickle down memes" that they copy/paste to every social media website for decades.
EL_Toddler: The Population of society is addicted to the images, faces, voices of the rich and powerful - even when they are incredibly ugly icons - they can't stop speaking about their distinct orange skin color and the power that comes with political power and media stardom - "you can grab them by the pussy" power.
That power comes from the population, The People, who can't resist repeating the memes. Worked for The Church in Europe in 1450 when the population was similarly meme-addled until a priest in Germany upset the meme apple cart and translated The Meme Book to German from Latin. A new printing press in Germany helped that too, even if The Church funded the first printings.
Remember kid, Tricke down Economics is a lie, Trickle Down Memes and images of the politicians, religion symbol memes, orange skin color images, they TRICKLE DOWN and that is REAL POWER over The Population! A population who can not resist taking an image of a famous orange person and repeating it hour after hour on their meme copying machines they hold in their hands or sit on their desk.
P.S. In polices, repeating a name alone, campaign signs that just show a couple colors on meme symbols and signs - work well on the population. This is proven with statistics of voting results vs. money spent on spreading the name. People generally do not go into issues and validate the performance after election that the politician is honest and delivers... name recognition by shear trickle-down of meme signs in yards, endorsements by other meme icons of society, and repeating their image and name in other places is what it takes.
A karma system is sounding pretty good right now
lemmy's code already does it. person_aggregates keeps track of post_score and comment_score. It just isn't displayed on lemmy-ui. A bot or new code can look at these values.
Way back in October 31st 1517 finally one of the clergy got so fed up reading the damn book that they said, "Sin Boldly" and said... read here, verse Romans 11:32 ... romans1132.com
The book is so full of contradictions and that's the power. It cuts both ways.
A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.
I'm not sure I was ever told there was "a plan" for that, being born in 1969... and graduating high school in the late 1980's. By the time I was 8 years old, the radio was already playing: "somehow we missed out on the pot of gold"... "free to face a life that's ahead of me"... something beyond what you describe... "we will search for tomorrow on every shore"....
My personal plans in life have been consistently wrecked by the waves of power-seeking by governments, businessmen, and technology power shifts. I feel like the age of Mass Dehumanization has been underway with climate change denial, medical science denial, pretty much the fears outlined by !sagan@lemm.ee in 1995...
If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion
Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.
It used to be something people said 'out loud' about people not reading links and just commenting... then it just became normalized.
yes, interpretation of various things, not just reading normal prose.
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way. There are no supernatural books or stories. All kinds of people claim they hear the voice of god, it's the popularity of these specific stories that defines them as religions.
Science shows religion stories fit the pattern of schizophrenia: https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-joseph-campbell-inward-journey-schizophrenia-and-mythology/
Both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world down over 30 minutes now
The comic's suit questions if AI models can function without training themselves on protected works.
I doubt a human can compose chat responses without having trained at school on previous language. Copyright favors the rich and powerful, established like Silverman.
I expect it is federation outbound activity growing in memory usage, it's all held in RAM for every post/comment/like going out to subscribed servers. !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml is a community for the focus on scaling Lemmy.
This is the aftermath, this is the salvage where they put up the sign and they are on a small island of safe land.
If you haven't heard the song Wooden Ships about toxic USA... and "winning" against the Hippy Libs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdiuqQ7xm30