Oh wow, it looks like I upset a surprising number of people. Median income at Microsoft is 200k or 94th percentile for the US. Who is reading this and downvoting because someone at Microsoft really might become homeless if they try to work somewhere that more aligns with their ethics?
Oh, I don’t have epilepsy so I’m not avoiding YouTube because of this filter, I’m avoiding YouTube because of the money Google keeps giving to Trump and because I noticed that my tech usage isn’t very diversified and it was pretty pretty dominated by US companies (so if you imagine trade war negotiating leverage, I was giving the Trump administration more leverage). From that perspective, it removes ad revenue which is about all you can do with YouTube besides trying to convince creators to put their videos on multiple platforms (and it’s questionable there is a good alternative platform)
I don’t think anyone has pointed out that the food is on the inside of the circle and the outside world is on the outside of the circle. The inside of the circle and the seal are clean so it shouldn’t matter what it is, it didn’t contaminate the food inside
This might have come up today in a few pages of the novel I’m reading. The main character in the book has a lot of intrusive thoughts and there is a part where they read someone’s blog that has similar thoughts. Anyway, I still don’t know your situation, but I thought I’d put the name of the book here incase its helpful to someone:
“Turtles all the way down” by John Green
Its also a movie by the same name
Agreed it’s important to model behaviour. Even if each of us are adding lots of interesting articles with unchanged titles it seems pretty important to also say click bait with misleading titles aren’t appropriate. Or if they are appropriate here, anyone know some moderators or a community that finds them unreasonable?
To be fair, they also have little to gain now besides a slight feeling of doing something good but any alternative has to start from somewhere and need to get momentum.
Yeah, YouTube is really entrenched.
It’s not that hard to set your peertube account to autoupload any YouTube channel but we only get away with the IP issues while peertube is small so it’s not very sustainable.
I wish more of the creators that have ethical issues with the Trump administration’s actions would acknowledge that Google is enabling and actively supporting (at least through larger than usual donations to) the Trump administration and then choose to upload anywhere else, even if they keep uploads in two places. I wonder if they lose more IP control on peertube, it seems unlikely given the alternative is Google. I’ve tried to message a few creators but I think the larger ones have either contracts of fond memories of the community that they grew from.
Sorry, I know this is definitely a tangent from the OP but I was closing tabs and Trump’s comment on pardoning Changpeng Zhao is too good not to share:
Which one? Who is that?.. The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.
Ahahaha. A title cautioning not to watch YouTube with the description of the situation being… a YouTube video.
I’m avoiding YouTube so for others like me that want more info here’s a BBC article on the filter itself (not the failure mode):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp
And an Invidious link that lets you view the video:
A feeling that seems to underly this question is that record companies are some capitalist evil nightmare and that crypto is the saviour here. I don’t think any of the comments here address that part so I thought I might try.
I’m guessing most of this post is thinking of small musicians but to think about how much money a record label makes I’m going to be lazy and use a number I saw recently - Taylor Swift grossed 2 billion from ticket sales for her Eras Tour and got about 190 million after tax and payments for services:
That’s a similar sort of order to the fines we’re seeing for laundering in crypto - Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and paid 4 billion in resolutions:
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plead-guilty-federal-charges-4b-resolution
And similar to the gains Trump has made since shortly before coming into office, an estimated 1 billion from crypto:
It seems like a lot of those payments that Trump made money from are some form of corruption. And a large portion of the amount that record labels make.
It’s reasonable to look at the wealth of record companies and to wish it was more reasonable to distributed. It’s also reasonable to look at how little artists make of certain transactions and think there must be something amiss. I honestly have no idea on the accuracy of those two, the world is counterintuitive sometimes but I’m sure there is a lot of room for improvement.
Aiming to use crypto as one of the mechanisms for improvement seems pretty far fetched to me from a pragmatic perspective. (But I think both the anti record company sentiment and the pro crypto sentiment have similar ideologies.) From what I’ve seen crypto has only demonstrated usefulness as a mechanism for:
Okay, I think I understand now.
That’s understandable in that situation but as someone that wasn’t in that situation I was just really slow to understand what you meant.
And it’s not like the mind doesn’t have power over the body (at the very least good / bad spirits make pain easier / harder to deal with) but yeah… some of the sayings people throw out are just shitty. And it does get more insidious. I’m only guessing at your situation but know of people with cancer where people would say things like “I don’t think they have the mental strength to survive this”.
It sounds like a difficult situation to be in. Are you still in it, or have you at least found a way to avoid the frustration and confusion of their comments?
What specifically are you suggesting?
Yeah, I downvoted for not having enough context. Dropping a clickbait title and nothing else is poor form
You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units
Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but even there they still add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used
Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
Doesn’t the OP say iOS?
Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? I thought the collapse tends to come later after the consolatio and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?