GONADS125

@GONADS125@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario 64 on my switch. Reminds me of great childhood memories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Green Haven Entryway⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh whoops, my bad…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Green Haven Entryway⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t look heavenly to me… looks ominous as fuck.

  Pretty awesome tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bear Behind Glass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was an altered item in Control, but SCP also works.

  I felt like Control was practically an SCP universe. Absolutely loved that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SM64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SM64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bit for a minute there, until I realized that video is 3 hours and 45 minutes long… I don’t care that much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s Fallout Series Primed For Second Season Ahead Of Premiere⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going in hoping it will be decent, but the little I’ve seen of trailers (which I avoid) felt kind of like a toned down, tamer Fallout than the gritty games…

  It made me feel like it won’t be any heavier than a Star Wars film, which will be utterly disappointing for a Fallout adaption.

  I had mixed feelings on The Last of Us show, but at least they kept it adult and gritty. I so hope this Fallout series isn’t some daytime PG-13 silly bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite training montage?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s only one answer in my mind…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshittification had already been largely discussed here.

  I saw users minimizing the aberrant business practices of Meta and doubting their role in assisting in genocide.

  My point was to highlight how unethical and horrendous Meta itself is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the Meta apologists, I have a reality check for you:

  Threads was immediately subject to mass amounts of radicalizing, extremist content, and there have also been instances of users having personal information doxxed on Threads due to Meta’s information-harvesting practices. [1]

  Threads was marketed to be open to ‘free speech’ (read: hate speech and misinformation) and encouraged the Far-Right movement to join, who have spread extremism, hate, and harassment on Threads already. [2] Threads has been a hotbed of Israel-Palestine misinformation/propaganda. [3] They also fired fact-checkers just prior to Threads’ launch. [1]

  As already established, Meta also assisted in genocide! [4]

  Meta/FB/Instagram also have a strong history of facilitating the spread of misinformation and extremism, which contributed to the January 6th insurrection attempt. [5], [6]

  This really should be obvious by now… but Meta mines and sells their user’s information.[7] Just look at the permissions you have to grant them for Threads…

  FB users have to agree to all sorts of unethical things in the TOS, including giving Meta permission to run unethical experiments on their users without informed consent. [8] Their first published research was where they manipulated users’ feeds with positive or negative information, in order to see if it affected their mood. It did, and they successfully induced depression in many of their users!

  I will now turn to an article that surmises well the core practices of Meta as a company:

  • Elevates disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories from the extremist fringes into the mainstream, fostering, among other effects, the resurgent anti-vaccination movement, broad-based questioning of basic public health measures in response to COVID-19, and the proliferation of the Big Lie of 2020—that the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud [16];

  • Empowers bullies of every size, from cyber-bullying in schools, to dictators who use the platform to spread disinformation, censor their critics, perpetuate violence, and instigate genocide;

  • Defrauds both advertisers and newsrooms, systematically and globally, with falsified video engagement and user activity statistics;

  • Reflects an apparent political agenda espoused by a small core of corporate leaders, who actively impede or overrule the adoption of good governance;

  • Brandishes its monopolistic power to preserve a social media landscape absent meaningful regulatory oversight, privacy protections, safety measures, or corporate citizenship; and

  • Disrupts intellectual and civil discourse, at scale and by design. [9]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  amnesty.org/…/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get 3x as many groceries at Costco for the same price as at Walmart.