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Gab and the "anime tiddy question": friends express worry over my fully, vocal support of Gab's decision.

it's a good thing to have on *a* network; can be a local choice.

would be a *bad* thing if on every network; should *not* be a global mandate.
2/
as mentioned times before, i'm for much freedom and some order; that's my base values. i'm also big fan of localism; of communities running their affairs to their own best interest. this includes gatekeeping - gatekeeping is good.

this comes to head with Gab.
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Gab is a widely successful *ecosystem* - web services and apps and a brand.

the success clearly indicates their particular choices that are attractive to a sizable number of people. those people end up joining, contributing, and also promoting it in their social circles.
4/
communities need freedom to differentiate themselves from other communities.

the current state of affairs, of exact same *cultural* rule for hundreds of millions of people, of prohibition of moral judgement, of *forced* sameness, etc, fails: leads to abuses & authoritarianism
5/
when i say "communities need a freedom to differentiate themselves from other communities",

it means *your* community shall enjoy freedom to set own rules.

"i may disagree with your community's choices, but you'll defend the freedom to make the choices", simple as.

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13 Jan
>self-replicating vanguard probe
even more dangerous than a "paperclip maximizer"
>get with the program
can you prove *we* aren't a self-replicating vanguard probe?

>panspermia
but ran by memetic beings.

we're pretty good *substrate* for memes to live off of.

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13 Jan
1/
Jason raises several objections to my take on Gab & the anime tiddy problem; his thread is worth reading.

i honestly can't give satisfactory answers here as the *frame of reference* is partly orthogonal to mine - and my vocabulary for highly derived problems is lacking :-)
2/
my support for Gab's choice is nuanced:

i don't like *the* choice they made.
i do like the fact they were *able to* make a choice.
3/
the dualism (direct dislike / meta like) has a parallel in the freedom of speech problem: do we allow people to advocate abolishing freedom of speech?

*allowing* is defeatist; *disallowing* is self-defeatist.

of course that's a false dichotomy :-)
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13 Jan
Moldmeme's new article is going places

and people will refuse to acknowledge implications, and will find *roundabout* arguments to preemptively shoot even an option of discussing them 😎

Image
in which Moldmeme plays with the reader:

>So the victim creates the bully

has also an entirely different, much darker, meaning when discussing journalists.

Moldmeme leaving that one out on purpose to make us think harder. Image
in which Moldmeme plays with the reader some more:

>not designed for managing the minds of people
>is ran on advertising spend

think, dear reader, think very hard Image
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>dirtbag christian

also a journalist Image
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let's see the substack

>what is a dirtbag christian? Image
3/
oh Image
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11 Jan
1/
between rock and hard place: Firefox got woke, but if we ditch it, only Chrome remains.

i don't want repeat of the big stagnation - when Internet Explorer was dominant #browser and there was no technical improvements *for years*.

pic: Internet Explorer, the stagnant era
2/
indeed the other popular browsers (Brave, Safari, Opera, Edge, other smaller ones) are thinly-skinned Chrome.

i particularly regret losing Opera to the chrome-ification; original Opera was great <3 Image
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Firefox has been in decline for a couple years now, under the woke Mozilla Corporation. it's neither fresh nor cool anymore.

i expect it to *again* be handed over to community, who will *again* do better stewardship.

pic: Mitchell Baker, the CEO Image
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2/
social sciences, when taken with rigor, boil down to either:

- evolutionary psychology, or
- economy
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how can *evolutionary psychology* indicate, measure "moral decline" or "rot"?

it expresses either as *loss of fitness*. do we have loss of fitness?

yes we do.
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