It’s not the reason, but it certainly is a reason.

Another reason is. That it is an old protocol from the late 90s. And there isn’t a lot of Buzz about it these days. A lot of the problematic centralization we all now recognize was just becoming the norm.

Feature parity at the time is also another big hurdle. Things we all take for granted especially in this day and age Avatar profile pictures etc. Jabber/xmpp did not have that for years. It may be a useless feature in terms of sending messages. people still like personalization etc. And it’s hard to convince people to switch if they have to give it up.

Jump to today. And arguably services like Twitter Mastodon Facebook Etc all sort of fill that Niche to an extent. Maybe not as well. But enough again that it’s going to be hard to get people to switch to yet another system

Yep, literally 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Yes. I mean I’m going to take them at their word. Making themselves look foolish doesn’t have any direct benefit to them realistically here. And them adding their voice to the already existing chorus isn’t a bad thing. But just how abjectly have we failed as a society. That our fourth estate, education system, Etc has allowed for this sort of thing. Deeply of course, the question was always rhetorical. Very very deeply.

What?! Just… what!? They joined a fascist attack because they thought they could do some good enabling it?! I truly don’t understand this thought process.

But it is the Mexico. Unlike other mexicos. Looking at you new mexico.

Though you are absolutely right. And it’s more than just things like that which are normalized through innocuous seeming language.

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Then I hope to see you out in the next few days trimming the grass with tweezers. So we can all get a good chuckle. Take a lesson from the luddites. They didn’t destroy the Looms because they hated the looms. They destroyed the Looms because the owners sought to cut them out.

A tool is simply a tool. It isn’t good or bad. It’s fashy Tech Bros out for a quick buck that make it bad. Be mad at them. Not the tools. AI isn’t going to make it impossible or undesirable for us to create as we always have. Just the fash.

addendum Your value as a human shouldn’t be how useful your art is to someone else. Your art is valuable even if you’re the only one that appreciates it. And only fascists and other authoritarians will impeded your ability to create it. I for one welcome the day we see creations realized that couldn’t/wouldn’t have been realized other ways. Animations etc accelerated with better AI tweening algorithms etc. Allowing us to see truly unique even singular visions we wouldn’t have seen otherwise for example. Fuck the slop.

Possibly. But there are valid uses of ai. Uses that streamline the process, take away some of the more tedious bits. Allow the artist to create more, easier. But you’re also not wrong to imply that for a corporation that will always be the exception and not the rule

Oh absolutely. As do the tribes. Despite not being the most visually recognizable descendants. Even my father at this point simply due to the way genetics works doesn’t have the markers that a lot of the DNA tests used to identify native populations. But blood is blood, and we can trace our lineage right back to past tribal leaders even.

Ottowae on one side recent enough, that my grandmother went to one of those white washing ”Indian schools”. Wyandotte a bit further back on the other side with a bit more Ottawae. Which is pretty common considering after the death march, those that survived ended up in kansas/oklahoma.

As someone on tribal rolls that’s lucky enough not to live on reservations. I can say you aren’t wrong. Though my point in using them was that they are directly tied to the fascists. The ones aiming to kill FDR were Hitler sympathizers etc. So a bit more directly connected to the Nazis / fascists.

Modern? This shit has been running unabated for the last hundred years. FDR mistakenly font Nazis were people you could make deals with. And rather than try, then hang them. Offered them freedom and no consequences as long as they voted for his legislation. Which they immediately turned around and have spent the last 100 years dismantling. It’s a very serious problem that has a country we’ve just pretended didn’t exist for forever.

He’s already been claiming he would for the last 15. It was too little to late back then. He either needs to get busy with it or shut up about it.

Well; not any more. That’s for sure.

Absolutely. Honestly fines should generally be abolished. Because it’s fine is nothing but the cost of doing business for the wealthy. However if they had to go to prison or actually start sacrificing some of their own time then shit gets real.