I’ve been saying for a long time (since the 2010s tech boom). There’s needs to be a new term the public lexicon termed “poptech” or popular technology. In the same vein has popsci.

The technology anyone knows anymore is oversimplified for general audiences. These days is almost always imparting wrong understanding.

The industry has been rife with grifters. If people catch on then the bottomless pit of funding will become very shallow.

I got ridiculed for talking about how you have to keep a conveyor belt of multiple accounts baking and ready to go (age, karma, post history). A thing that was once normally accepted mode of operation on reddit. Now the perspective has inverted. Reddit has managed to pivot itselt 180 degrees to a different class of internet user. They are totally naive though just as self-righteous as older reddit users.

Apparently now that MO is considered chronically online basement dweller behavior. I know it’s not that deep. The newer reddit users are largely there for low brow entertainment. Including harassment/mockery/ridicule of any reddit user they find that is different from them.

They use reddit by scrolling their phone chasing dopamine hits. It’s reddits version of the slot machine mechanics that just about every facet of the tech world has been implementing in their own way.

As for the “why was I banned” shenanigans. I think it’s mostly automated trip wires every where. It’s rats nest of it. Second to that is bad actors gaming it. That’s a whole rant in itself.

The newer reddit users are technologically illiterate. They have no idea about bans or shadow bans. They’ll keep engaging even though their activity is going into a shadowban blackhole.

Economically like the post-Soviet states. Socially and culturally like Iran after the revolution.

I don’t think there will be a civil war. It seems like this is popular idea because the American narrative is programmed like Hollywood blockbusters that need to resolve itself between one to two hours. That means a setup, the big conflict, and the brief resolution. Where the righteous American hero prevails in the end as he walks away from the explosions without looking back.

Reality is slower. It’s not a linear point A to B story. There’s not necessarily the big event that immediately leads to victorious conclusion.

End stage capitalism is going to slowly get worse over the coming decades. The everyone for themselves mind-rot leads to the natural conclusion of economic decay for the lower majority as wealth and power further concentrates. There will effectively be commie blocks. Urban centers once the marvel of American economic and democratic might. Built when there was ample money, resources, and more functional civic systems to maintain it. The effects of the wealthy gutting social systems leaves a helpless population. This compounds a vicious cycle of urban decay.

The conservative supreme court supermajority is going to play out over the next several decades leading to deeply entrenched conservative backlash against secularization of the late 20th / early 21st century.

A saying I’ve seen a lot lately is that Americans have always had things work out for them. So they think it will continue to work out. It’s made them complacent. They sit at home and watch MTV / Youtube while their country kept on winning just like that.

Sometimes there are situations where there is no coming back from. That’s just individual life and world history. I think there’s a very real possibility America just fades away.

Sounds like an out of touch tech bro.

Twitter uses top posting.

Twitter threading does not make any sense to me.

Then leave them alone to nuke themselves.

I had a feeling this post is race bait. Apparently nobody actually read the body anyways and are responding to the title.

Yes. Of course the big platforms actively seek to undermine competitors. There’s billions of dollars at stake. Something that really convinced me was reading about how Facebook ran VPN services to spy on traffic so they could spot budding competitor platforms.

We know reddit used bots at the beginning to generate activity to make the site look popular. Something I’m not convinced they ever stopped doing. I believe reddit corporate still bots their own site for whatever purpose they require in the moment. I absolutely believe they troll their own site. Remember spez is the guy who live edits the production database.

Fight fire with fire. Assume their gender. 🙂

It’s the tech oligarchs. They’re doing their own gilded age. Their empires exist in the tech domain. Mostly IT services. They’re going after the whole pie. They want the entirety of American industry.

What they have in mind exactly is anyone’s guess. We’re not going back to the times of railroad or oil barons. We’re not necessarily going back steel and auto manufacturing. The future is in things like robotics, renewable energy, semiconductors, or whatever the future holds.

I think crashing the economy just to buy stock is old news too. The saying has become rather mindlessly echoed. They have relatively little to gain from this. The rich hold 90% of stocks. There’s little to extract from the remaining 10%. Plus I think people have believed too much in the idea that stocks are a shell game. It’s not as much as people think. The markets are still based on tangibles meaning actual industry. That is what the oligarchs are after. What’s better than owning stock in the industry is owning the industry itself. Complete total monopolies just like the gilded age and just like they’ve monopolized IT services sector.

The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It’s part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.

Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They’re clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.

You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.

I’m posting this from Mars colony. Amazing isn’t it.

There was definitely a time when people were smarter. I read a comment on r/xennials that stuck with me. They were lamenting the loss of a the culture of their youth. I’m not sure I can rephrase it as well as they said it.

Basically they were describing how it used to be about how we questioned things. Like the show The X-Files. It was about seeking the truth. They noted how that show was reflective of how reality was. There was this common mindset that the answers are out there. That we can work together even to seek the answers and we will find them inevitably.

You see that doesn’t make much sense in 2025 because everyone has the answer to anything and everything. Except it’s their own answer. Not the answer. More than ever their answer is one which is derived from their internet / social media bubble.

There is no longer some big unknown out there full of mysteries to unravel. Not anymore. The zeitgeist right now is that I have my own world view and that’s the one. I know how the system works. I know the way. It’s the way I see the world. So why doesn’t everyone else come join my world view??? Are they stupid?

In the past we didn’t know everything. Nobody knew anything. Nobody had any illusion that they did. Nor could they whip out their pocket rectangle and find answers immediately.

In the past people had to be more open minded. They had to be honest about not knowing. Without modern media they had to be seekers of knowledge. As opposed to over confident purveyors relying on a quick internet search (these days a simple GPT query). The modern zeitgeist is one where everybody talks. Nobody listens. 8 billion deaf ears listening and learning nothing. Just waiting for their turn to talk. Everyone learned everything and they’re so damn sure of it.

Stupid people think they know it all. Smarter people are unsure of what they know. Of course there were stupid people before. But they knew they were stupid. Today the stupids can mask it by repeating words from the podcast, the tiktoks, the youtube videos they just watched.

It’s not uniquely an American problem. The American symptoms are quite a sight to beheld though.

Where did this come from? Is this a precursor to pushing some blockchain shit or something?

When you can’t win, accuse them of cheating.

Well bluetooth doesn’t carry enough bitrate to accomplish this. Besides. Apple won’t and doesn’t need to because their AAC encoder is superior. There is no other bluetooth codec that comes even close. Every codec that claims to be the best one yet is more marketing than anything.

Vendors reframed the narrative for SBC to be dog shit so they can push their own as cutting edge new tech. In reality SBC isn’t that bad. The vendor codecs aren’t that good. And Apple has some kind of secret sauce in their AAC encoder that results in really good quality reproduction of audio.

As far as I’ve seen most of the gimmicky codecs are spins of existing old technology. AAC itself is old too but at least one vendor Apple has focused on making their implementation good. We don’t need another standard+1. We just need a common standard done well. If only Apple would open theirs.

Nothing happened. The generational war another facet of culture war. It doesn’t make sense because you have to ask what the fuck happened to Gen X? Why don’t they fit into the picture? Why doesn’t the data add up? That should tell you something. Your experiment is flawed. The culture war doesn’t make sense.

Yeah it worked for the first part of internet history. You talked to people from all over the world.

Now people use the internet like a carnival freak show exhibition. They don’t talk to others. They scroll to gawk at what oddities and tap the glass and jeer at the inhuman thing. Social media is designed this way.

That’s why Chinas manufacturing is being targeted too. Otherwise they will inevitably develop the process for bleeding edge in house chip fabrication. Technology is only a matter of time. The US is trying to stall any way they can.

It’s abundant on the moon. It can be mined. There’s another space race going on. We don’t hear about it because the west isn’t winning. And we’re in the middle of another cold war where propaganda must control the narrative.