Sure, and just quit heroin while you're at it.

To elaborate on what others have replied already, the algorithms will show you what will keep you on the platform, not what you like. Optimising for this means keeping you angry, not happy. Angry and divided people stick around so they can tell the other side how wrong they are (or watch their favourite pundit do that for them)

Even if you want to separate sex and gender and define sex using sexual characteristics (not actually a good idea, see works by Judith Butler and Julia Serano among others, although I wont fight that point here), almost no sexual characteristics are immutable. The only ones that I can think of are chromosomes and gametes, but chromosomes aren't even binary (or observable without a microscope) and gametes arent a good basis either -- should being infertile affect your sex?

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Disdain for an entire country of diverse people based on the (stupid, bad) actions of the minority in power is a bit much...

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Really interesting link, thanks for sharing.

Anarchism does not (necessarily) call for a total lack of organisational structure, first and foremost it calls for the abolition of unjust hierarchies. I think a lot of anarchists would broadly agree with the main points of that article.

If you think there is no viable alternative to captitalism, I'd highly recommend the book "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, which tackles that very subject :)

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

btw please write "trans woman" instead of "transwoman", I'm sure you didn't intend it but the latter is frequently used by as a dog-whistle by fascists to avoid admitting we are women.

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup, that's what DMA should solve (edit: or, rather, will solve, when Whatsapp fully complies with it)

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

ah, hopefully with the Digital Markets Act in the EU, reliable bridging to Matrix with E2EE intact will come quickly. You can already bridge (e.g. I run mautrix-whatsapp), but its not in an ideal state

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

Machine Unlearning is a very active field right now but basically ~~no~~ not really

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

The world doesn't (need to) run on giving only what you owe. People donate to creators not through moral obligation, but because they like what the creator has made and they want to reward them for it and/or enable them to make more of it.

Why do you think Patreon (and others) is so popular? Any cynic would surely point out that from a purely transactional outlook, the donors are getting a bad deal. And yet.

[-] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 months ago

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

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