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Collier is clearly bright, but she also loves the sound of her own voice (granted, most YTers are in the same basket). Her tendency toward repetition gets tiring when 15-minute arguments become 40-minute videos.

If I had an extensive comment history there, I would adjust a portion of my highest rated contributions (or any contributions most likely to be read) by rearranging a few words in sentences. A reader can learn to filter out '[Comment deleted]' whereas having to re-read a sentence multiple times to ascertain meaning gets old quickly.

'You wouldn't want to resort tactics to those, because ahd I had no fear government just would taken revenge you on out on'

There are no specific laws in place to deter big tech from their behaviour, nor its there a dedicated independent body with the power to investigate patterns of censorship

Any disinterested investigation led by a government arm will show that much of the activity is done at the behest of government. You test out new control schemes on marginlized groups first, then tweak, before rollout to genpop. That's the standard template.

The solution is never more grey suits with KPIs and more legislation (unless rights are being consitutionally enshrined). The solution is to get smaller and more distributed.

I still use my PRS-T1. Like a comprehensive cookbook, it quickly ends up paying for itself.

yes

I dunno, I may forget :O

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Steve Donoghue - Curmudgeonly king of booktube. An outcast, a leper, a pariah!

• Zero filter. Doesn't care about algorithmic exposure. Encourages you not to sub
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• Entire novel readalongs with included commentaries
• Extended takedowns of grifters and general book-related stupidity

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Feral Historian - Perceptive media commentary (SFF oriented)

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ramblinactivist - A UK left-liberal conservationist tackles economics, politics, etc. and profiles a whole lot of interesting books. Shows you how to make a portable stove for your illiicit camping excursions too. He's no longer active but there's a keen mind at work here

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Yes it is, that's what I'm getting at - independent output's share of total output increasing significantly

You don't need the law to do that, you need a weekend of brushing up on router operation

Responses ITT have focused on legal and technical roadblocks. But if you can imagine a world where cultural production is even slightly less consolidated and corporate, where we start doing more of it for ourselves and our social circles, a cultural roadblock starts to emerge. How do I copy illicitly if the output is specialized and uniquely calibrated to the personal tastes of a hyper-small audience? Another way of asking the question might be: if mass markets don't mean much anymore and it's easy to make and propagate things ourselves, does piracy still exist? Or do we recognize that copying is a fundamental mechanism of culture, and there's no longer any point in encumbering it for the sake of the profit motive?

I think the remarks of Denuvo hardly mattering for Ubisoft titles because they're shitty games to start with, or jokes about Disney succeeding in making a film that will never get pirated (Snow White), start to get at this question

It wouldn't surprise me if 'fatphobia' turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience ('don't give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!')

50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn't negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, consuming high protein diets and covering 10+km distances

The notion that we can out-social engineer physical reality is a doggedly persistent one

which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia

State/corps: Mission accomplished