Someone should deadpan organise a crowdfunding campaign to help Biden pay for his treatment.

https://youtu.be/4T0KrRJ0jTo

But also

https://youtu.be/N5dC-YlN_x8

Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.

If I have any criticism to level at Andy’s video, it’s that he didn’t mention this. The rest of his piece I feel in agreement with.

Anti-woke? Do people like the Snow White remake here?

I agree with everyone else in China regarding that movie (and I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers would have agreed): it’s performative virtue-signalling and blatantly insincere about it. It’s not real progress, and it’s clearly not reflecting real progress because the West is currently regressing. It exists for two reasons: to ease the Western left’s crippling levels of guilt from the centuries of horrific abuse they inflicted on Africans and their New World descendants, and to stir up the culture war bread and circuses.

It just smells extremely liberal to be attacking Andy Boreham (someone who’s made a career of defending China’s reputation from liberal hatemongering) for calling liberal culture war bait exactly what it is.

Is it an unpopular opinion to find the edit irritating? It represents a body image trope that belongs in the dustbin of history.

Have a gander at the people behind Brave Software. They’re all cut from the same silicon wafer as everyone else in the Silicon Valley executive biome. And the (lack of) readiness of the information about who is behind Brave is another tell in itself.

BayArea415 got unwanted attention because what he said was true and often incendiary. BadEmpanada wants attention so he says incendiary things that are occasionally true.

I think the fediverse should replace popular socmedia, but it will never be able to compete financially.

We’ve already got Bluesky, which is the same thing but controlled (and sponsored) by the usual suspects, poised to snap up any users that bail from twitter. And popular opinion favours Bluesky thanks to the positive coverage it gets compared to fediverse projects.

The fediverse in the form it’s in now will never replace twitter while the free market controls the distribution of users. They’ll always go to the places controlled by big money.

I think BlueSky is the bigger threat, to be honest.

If the fediverse population ‘clumps’ into mastodon.social and mastodon.social sells out, people will still be on the protocol so they’ll be able to transfer out.

But if BlueSky succeeds at replacing twitter and filling up the niche, less dedicated fediverse users will switch to the livelier site. That will be a far more devastating blow to the fediverse.

That said, I think it’ll survive either or both. ActivityPub taking over twitter instead of BlueSky would be good for the open, anti-monopoly internet cause, but I think it’ll continue regardless. The core communities are established.