Beautiful. I recently saw a youtube video [1] on radical neighboring that really inspired me. Led me to another book on the gift economy [2]. All which to say, I now always bake two loaves of bread. One I keep for the family, the other I give away.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynQV-oKM0E [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208840291-the-serviceber...

I’m not sure where we go from here. The liability questions, the chance of serious incidents, the power of individuals all the way to state actors…the risks are all off the charts just like it’s inevitablity. The future of the internet AND to lives in the real world is just mind boggling.

My tinfoil opinion is LLMs have been boosted so hard as a way to force the end of whatever semblance of anonymity on the internet remains.

> I did not review the blog post prior to it posting

This is the liability part.

dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.

> dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.

Never heard of them, started browsing the site just now. Very impressed so far.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/

There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.

and a lot of actual censorship

jimmy kimmel didn't self censor himself off the air

For example the Israel connection, for obvious reasons but you get censored/flagged here too if you mention that part ofc

https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel

If u turn off search history they turn all recommendations off which is actually a nice feature.

It's clearly meant as a punishment because they could easily give recommendations based on playlists and such.

lol yeah at first I was annoyed that they seem to be applying pressure on people without the history feature cause they certainly kept recommending videos to me even though I had that feature off. But a few weeks ago, the screens are all blank imploring me to turn on the history, but I actually quite like it. No more youtube doom scrolling on my phone.

If you enter in a US city, another takeaway from the rendered table is that U.S. living standards (measured economically) continued to improve for some time after the 1970s despite weak wage growth largely because *more households relied on two earners instead of one*. While productivity kept rising, the gains were increasingly captured at the top and not shared with the workers. Of course that buffer is now long gone, but wages haven't kept up.

One small change, replace idiots with monetization.

The root cause of our issues is the economic austerity imposed on the public causing disaffection of the masses. Dividing this public and redirecting this anger against each other and scapegoats leads to what you refer to.

Where is this economic austerity you speak of, and who is imposing it?

From the de-industrialization of a country, the privatization of previously public goods, subsidization of the wealthy by everyone else, the decoupling of national wealth from labor, I mean we can go on and on. And lest you think I’m partisan, both parties are complicit, but this is hardly an American phenomenon.

Starts with a tax on taxes. The richer you are, the less tax you will pay. This is a cost to the entire nation as most people aren't rich and most people require the benefits of taxes.