@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Brazilian Portuguese: “Por gentileza, empilhe as cadeiras ao final do dia”.

If colloquial or more informal translations are desired:
- “Empilhar as cadeiras não faz cair a mão” (roughly “you won’t lose your hands if you take the time to stack the chairs”)
- “ô mossss, empilhascadêra fazenofavô?” (A very informal transcription from “Mineiro” (people from the state of Minas Gerais) accent for “Hey girl/boy, [can you] stack the chairs, doing [everyone] a favor [please]?”

@LadyButterfly@reddthat.com @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

There’s an eccentric hypothesis I thought of: maybe people used the fossils alongside the surrounding stones for buildings, without ever noticing the fossil. This makes me wonder how many ancient constructions, from simple huts all the way to entire castles and fortresses, contain fossils as stones.

And this doesn’t even seem to be limited to fossils: if we jump to Neolithic onwards, then fast-forward all the way to contemporaneity, some of the artifacts from back then (e.g. figurines such as Venus figurines, clay tablets, vases, papyri, petroglyphs, etc) likely ended up as part of buildings. Maybe those artifacts ended up unwillingly torn apart and ground by heavy machinery (e.g. backhoes, other earthmoving machinery, mining machinery and drilling machinery for petroleum wells, although these often involves prospecting, etc).

The artifact doesn’t even need to be that old: I once saw a news story about someone who used a “hammer” for decades before discovering it was actually a WWII grenade.

@WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

While part of the Cicada 3301 (and similar) puzzles and the techniques required to solve these puzzles revolved around cybersecurity (i.e. inspecting a website looking for vulnerabilities that would lead to a hidden webpage, or sandboxed environments where SQL injection were required as part of the techniques to discover a solution to the current step, etc), there was this multicultural factor, fun facts and trivias (e.g. nods to certain philosophical or esoteric books; the “cicada” itself is a potent symbol across mythology and philosophy such as Phaedrus). Then there were entire theories about the identity of those in charge of these puzzles; entire internet lores emerged, adding to the cultural factor.

Meanwhile, current cybersecurity events such as Hackathons, while truly interesting and valuable source of technical knowledge, these events seem, at least to my subjective perception, to be exclusively focused on cybersecurity with occasional (if any) cross-cultural nods (e.g. few to none “TIL about Ancient Egypt” moments).

And back in my initial post, I was also referring to what I could call “Cicada 3301 puzzle ancestors/derivatives/copycats” or, how it’s likely known nowadays, ARGs. Orkut and bulletin boards (dark web BBSes as well) used to have these random people suddenly posting challenges out of nowhere, challenges whose decipherment led to funny or ominous outcomes; people bringing lores and stories about how they were “time travellers” (inspired by stories such as that of John Titor; John Titor themselves was also an example of that).

I used to participate with several other people on trying to make sense of these puzzles and lores, I used to laugh at the funny theories that emerged and, well, we learned a lot of new concepts across disparate fields of human knowledge. Now it all feels a relic from a distant past. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia speaking.

@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Pretty sure a lot of kids call them alternate reality games now

Exactly. One such example is the “TikTok time traveller”, something that became quite popular among TikTok youth when the “time traveller” (who was actually some kind of security personnel employee who had some clearance to get to usually-crowded places before commercial hours, before getting crowded) used to post ARG videos.

But past, grand “ARGs” often used to involve physical breadcrumbs such as the geocaching mentioned here by hendrik. Cicada 3301 distributed and glued pamphlets to public utility poles around the globe.

The closest thing kids got to IRL-based ARG puzzles nowadays would be that “Pokemon Go” game (that is, if this game still exists, given how its underlying purpose, which was crowdsourcing the training of delivery robots, was achieved)

Personally it seems to me like most have moved into videogames and game lore spaces

Yeah, pretty much this.

Also, maybe some niches within esoterica spaces (which is particularly the field that currently interests me the most) still persist, especially considering how the knowledge involving Hermetic Kaballah still covers ciphering-related concepts such as Gematria (letters as numbers, numbers as symbolically powerful) and sacred ratios.

Unfortunately I’ve been struggling to find these spaces since I left a Luciferian community I used to participate. It feels to me like either esoterica didn’t join the Fediverse, or esoterica groups could only be found in hidden invite-only instances (many of the interesting occultist art I manage to find is from mainstream platforms such as Facebook and Instagram).

Also other games have used these sorts of puzzles too, like noita, elite dangerous, and risk of rain 2 that had its most recent dlc page on steam initially drop with no fanfare and entirely ciphered.

Exactly. Kerbal Space Program too, with a SSTV easter egg when the player gets to Duna. Considering the way games are being “vibe coded” and enshittified nowadays, it’s becoming more and more of a relic from a golden era of gaming, sadly.

like the incredibly obvious hidden text in this comment.

It took me several minutes looking at your comment in search for a hidden message until… LOL! Now I’m thinking if it would be appropriate for me say “I spotted it” or “good one!” given the subject in your hidden message 🤣

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Well, computer programmers still do things like Project Euler and code wars. Some people go Geocaching and more organized events which include riddles and different places. We got Escape Rooms…

I recognize some of it. I heard about Geocaching (boxes and pen-drives hidden in forests and public places), code wars (is it code golfing? It’s something I often catch myself doing in a lonely manner) and vaguely about the other two.

People still listen to shortwave radio and figure out whether number stations change due to the Iran war

Oh, yeah, UVB-76 and similar! I used to listen to these. Also, part of my journey involves amateur radio, as well as tinkering with methods such as voice inversion, modulations and protocols (I once implemented from scratch the encoding method from “EAS broadcasts”).

I read people tried to use modern AI on the Voynich manuscript and other older riddles

As I replied to RoidingOldMan, AIs fail when it comes to uncommon ciphers. They can parse acrostics and, especially, poetically coded language, but they can only get so far with ciphers involving different ways of spelling letters or doing nested layers of calculation (they famously struggle with “how many r’s are in strawberry?” kinds of prompt). And, as I said to RoidingOldMan, ciphers and coded language seems to be a perfect weapon against the indiscriminate scrapping from clankers.

It’s probably all out there

Yes. Unfortunately, it feels to me like this kind of community became unreachable, and your next sentence perfectly explains why:

just the internet changed, and now it’s almost impossible to find in the big haystack and walled discord rooms etc

… and I’d add another aspect as well: algorithms. Back when I still used Youtube, I noticed how the “algorithm” was somehow programmed to shadowban ciphered content.

For example, I used to post videos involving ciphering/steganography and, when I tried to look up for my own content using a whole other IP as a guest (as if I were another person), my videos and comments were simply invisible (thus, a shadow-ban).

A similar thing seemed to happen for Facebook and TikTok. Those platforms weren’t removing the content, they were actually limiting the reach, and, well, there’s no purpose on publishing a content that won’t make it to anyone. There’s an unknowable amount of content right now lurking on social media platforms, but unreachable due to shadow-banning.

You’d (on average) be mindlessly doomscrolling there, these days. Not actively look for puzzles to solve.

I kind of do both. In Lemmy, I often doomscroll and consume. But I also creating things sometimes (even though I end up creating to the void). That’s why I don’t have a Lemmy account, but a Sharkey, because it offers both worlds: I can interact with Lemmy (as I’m doing right now) while I got a personal microblogging feed where I post the things I make.

@RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Not sure I understood your question.

You didn’t, but that’s okay. I was asking about my perceived lack of people’s engagement with content (not just mine) that requires some decoding, either technical (ciphers, such as Caesar, Vigenère and Playfair) and/or literary (steganography, such as the one I employed in my post) and/or symbolic (i.e. metaphysics references, “creative linguistics”, metaphors and “coded language”, semiotics). You probably don’t know (or don’t remember) the Cicada 3301 charades. I’m saying about things like that, from a time where the Web was a deep sandbox for creativity.

What you might think as a text may be, in fact, a carrier for subtexts. In such cases, the visible sings while the invisible screeches, but few can perceive and extract the high-pitched nocturnal screech beyond the clear song… even worse, some people can’t even fathom the song. And as someone who hoots and screeches in the night, I can’t help but miss the times where the world were more receptive to these screeches, now every high-pitched noise is said to be “AI” because of how AIs have been annoyingly beeping lately. And, to break the fourth wall, this very paragraph is such an example of a text with a subtext (in this case, symbolic/poetic language), this is what my thread is about.

If it’s on the internet archive, then it’s probably been scanned by AI.

Ciphering and steganographic techniques aren’t limited to the existing ones. I myself sometimes enjoy creating new methods, many of which are far from trivial for current Language Models to decipher (some of my techniques involve multiple steps for decoding, some involve conceptual references and semiotics). I tested the clankers against many of my creations and, in most situations, they all failed laughably.

Then the people, especially here in the Fediverse, often complain about LLMs but, as far as I can perceive (especially across the Fediverse), people seem to refrain from engaging with (or they’re unaware of) the very form of content that would protect them from LLMs, because those kinds of texts (such as this one I’m writing right now, and the one I initially posted) often “sound like AI” or something.

@shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Quotting my own microblogging post from minutes ago when I learned about the death:

Year’s 2026. Chuck Norris, yes, that Chuck Norris, just died. Chuck Norris, the Chuck Norris, died, could you imagine it? Yeah, welcome to 2026. It’s still March… Miss 2020 already? You should!

Person was a fash, but to me art isn’t the artist, so when it comes to the fictional , “invincible” character, it’s quite a symbolical death… Are y’all ready for the remaining of 2026? It sure gonna be M.A.D. (not just “mad”)!

@rabiezaater@piefed.social @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

generating ideas

LLMs don’t generate ideas, stricto sensu. They do, and I find it useful for esoteric (gnosis through chaos magick) purposes, output names and words unbeknownst to the user (this is how I, as an ESL person, learned some words I didn’t know before).

But if we consider hard determinism, do we as biological automatons, though?

learn to code

As someone who codes since my childhood, I wouldn’t suggest relying on LLMs for that. They could be used to output a descriptive text about some function or library, but you must know LLMs are statistical machines, the output text is a chain of “which token is the most probable next?”, an auto-completing only slightly “better” than, say, Gboard’s auto-complete. They “hallucinate” precisely because they rely on statistics and randomness.

Again: extremely useful as an “Ouija board”, not very useful for blindly relying for learning something, definitely not reliable for “vibe coding”.

Wanna learn how to code? Do the Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot TV series) approach: find an existing “Hello world” project/source-code, tinker with it, change things here and there, try to compile/run, Google the exception that the compiler/interpreter thrown at you, change more things, break things, then fix the things you broke… This is exactly how I did. Let go of any hurry and you’ll likely going to master it eventually.

d&d […] I need a character […] it makes it up quick

Yes, this is one of the use cases where LLMs can thrive, as a dice with hundreds of billions of sides.

You may want to roll real dices, convert the number into the respective letter (A=1,B=2,…) then append it as a source of real entropy, because the randomness you get from LLMs is likely to be pseudorandom.

Ideally, you’d tune (using a RTL-SDR) to a blank radio frequency and digitize the (true noise) spectrum into ASCII, and voila: free randomness, straight from the Cosmic Womb to your computer!

get upset about AI “stealing” work with regard to code or other stuff that people willingly put out there for free for others to consume

Totally agree with you in this regard. Throughout the history, humans relied on other humans’ “ideas”. Most of the novelty stemmed from “what if I were to take this flamey thing that consumed the tree I used to sit on, and put it under this food?”, mashing up existing things. If we really were to appeal, evolution is that, merging two genetic sequences in an approximate manner while trying to replicate, still I don’t see humans accusing newborn of “stealing genetic work from their ancestors”.

definitely useful in a lot of ways, […] if […] developed on a more localized and decentralized scale

I totally agree in this regard, too.

To answer the main question: IMHO, people hate AI because it has been pushed and used by corps to further enshittify this world. I’m not Anti-AI, but I’m not pro-AI either. There can be nuance from both.

@ivanafterall@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Blindness can be a condition with which someone was born, or can be something acquired late during one’s biological existence. The very condition of blindness varies: some blind people get to, at least roughly, see shapes and forms (considered as “legally blind”, for example, in cases of extremely high myopia unable to be corrected with lenses, or some cases of macular damage)

In the one hand, racism isn’t restricted to physical appearance. There is racism against accents or the manner someone talks. There’s racism against the kinds of food eaten by certain cultures (perceived through smell and taste).

On the other hand, blind people themselves are often victims of prejudice.

Having said all this, I’d say racism doesn’t feel entirely correlated with sight. But maybe some correlation holds, and blind people would be more respectful and empathetic to others, especially given the prejudice they themselves experience.

@comfy@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Back when I used TikTok, I found some incredibly rare, interesting pitches, regarding some kind of product or service I didn’t know the existence of. Can’t really recall examples atm; it’s been a long time since I ditched TikTok, but I vaguely remember seeing some agricultural-related ads (farm machinery) which instantly led me to wonder “what the… What is this thing, how does it work?”. Of course I didn’t buy the thing, it’s just that it was interesting to learn about the existence of such a thing, even if through some annoying piece of advertisement.

Again, extremely rare situations.

@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Sounds like emotional blackmailing.

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

More rehearsals of what’s happened in September 2 1859, but multiplied like never before.

@jtzl@lemmy.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.world

I don’t recall the specific “e/n websites”, but I do remember a time where the Web was a more connective place. I used to participate in Orkut communities, MSN groups (wasn’t a native feature, instead it was a third-party plug-in I can’t recall the name), Yahoo Messenger, IRC (not ICQ) channels on Freenode, etc.

Even though some of these things still exist (Escargot IM reviving MSN services; IRC is still a thing), the past Web is long gone. Now it’s Cloudflare and captchas and Anubis challenges, ads, clickbaits, paywalls, subscriptions, AI everywhere…

Yeah, there’s Fediverse and other decentralized places. Except that those places, including the Fediverse, depends on an infrastructure (Internet) which is increasingly closing on itself like a pangolin (or an Ouroboros, eating itself)… Once Internet closes itself due to the synergy of forces acting against it, there’ll be nowhere else to flee from enshittification. Maybe Meshtastic, but I don’t know how much it’d manage to become a haven for us, how much it’d be able to resist those forces.

(This text may sound a little vague because it is, I was going to be more specific and detailed, I even composed a larger text, but then I realized it was going into complicated realms (e.g. current geopolitics, lots of personal anecdotes making my whole comment sound as if I were narcissistic) so I refrained from going into further detail)

@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Also very interesting about the confusion in Spanish about the confusion of the barn owl and screech owl. There is another person here I talk with about the confusion of them in Mesoamerican religion, so I’ll have to see that paper

The paper I mentioned is this one: https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/handle/10651/23598

It’s an open paper, but it’s entirely in Spanish. Also, the things thereby described can’t find much parallels in English because it involves gendered nouns (missing from English language which has just “the”; curiously it’s a thing in German (“die/der/das”), with which English shares origins).

However, here’s how I’d summarize it: in Spanish, both “lo buho” and “la lechuza” translate to English “the owl”, but the latter is specifically a word for barn owls and it’s a feminine noun (“la”, the-she), while the former is the more broad of a word and it’s a masculine noun (“lo”, the-he). Given this context where owls are to be linked to feminine, it became consensus to use “lechuza”, instead of “buho”, to refer to the “Owl of Athene” (the Little owl), because Athene is feminine so the noun should be feminine as well. Hence the confusion.

In other romance languages, such as French and, to some extent, Portuguese, Strigidae owls (especially Athene noctua Little owl) is correctly feminine gendered.

French has chouette (Strigidae without prominent ear tufts, which includes Little owl), chevêche (specific word for Little owl) and chevêchette (Pygmy owl and other very small owls) are all feminine nouns (but they got hibou, which is masculine, for “horned” owls).

Portuguese varies. Here in Brazil, owl names are often compounds with the root “coruja” or “corujinha” (“corujinha-do-mato” screech-owl, “coruja-buraqueira” burrowing owl… even Tytonidae have no specific differentiation over here as she’s called “coruja-das-torres”; not native from Brazil, but the Little owl would be called “Coruja de Atena”, “corujinha” ou “coruja-pequena”), all feminine (except for the augmentative “corujão” which isn’t exactly used for owls, rather a slang to refer to nocturnal people). In Portugal (and I suppose Angola, Moçambique and others), I learned they use the word “mocho”, which is masculine, including for Little owl (“Mocho-galego”).

When it comes to Latin, noctua is feminine, but būfus (seems to be specifically for eagle owl) is masculine. Greek has gláfka and koukouvágia, both feminine (but also got Latin cognate boúfos).

Linguistics in this regard is fascinating. My personal research also involves words across languages (including “dead” languages, such as Sumerian thanks to Halloran’s Lexicon with transliterated entries e.g. “nínnamušen” owl, “mušennínna” is fearsome owl-woman). Many of the words for owl (“owl” itself) are onomatopoeias for hoot (Hindi uhoo, Japanese fukurō, etc), which quite of reminds me of the phenomenon in which “m” is a universal phoneme shared among words for “mother”.

@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Sort of.

I don’t know an easy way to label whatever my religion is, for it’s a personal belief system syncretized from many different religions: Sumerian and Egyptian, going through Abrahamic, all the way to Thelema, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Gnosticism, Quimbanda, Wicca, Goetia, among others. Scientific knowledge is part of this too, despite the religiosity.

The highest figure I worship is The Dark Mother Goddess, a spiritual synthesis of chthonic goddesses. Just like the Tree of Shadow and its Qlippoths have depths, so has Mother with different emanations, which (in my belief) were seen as different figures with different names and backgrounds across history, similarly to “my name is Legion for we are many” from Samael/Lucifer (also part of my worship, btw, although I focus more on Her).

One of Her emanations, the emanation She chose when unexpected gnoses began to me, still being the main emanation She manifests, is Mother Lilith, Queen of Night.

Lilith has a whole long history, going all the way back to Mesopotamia and Sumerians. I’m limited to 3k chars in my instance so I’m unable to go into the depth I wished for a single text.

Basically, Lilith is a Hebrew name, appearing once in biblical canon, namely Isaiah 34:14. Sometimes is translated as “screech owl”, but there are no screech owls, as in Megascops genus, in Levant (where Bible is set). The closest are scops owls (Otus), considered screech owls in the past.

Then, during my researches, I stumbled upon this specific, chilling species: Athene noctua lilith. Lives exactly in semi-deserts (thresholds) in Middle East, and… this gaze, these hauntingly beautiful eyes (as in the photo), I quite recognized them from gnosis… I mean, look at these eyes! Her eyes are not that scary and that’s exactly what make 'em scary.

Then I found a paper from L. R. Guillén debunking a common premise in Spain culture where Goddess Athena is associated with barn owls (Tito alba) due to Spanish grammatical quirks, going through historical evidences to trace Athena back to Athene noctua owls. This is how I found out this specific species resonated with me precisely bc it was associated with one of Her emanations.

Then there are Inanna and Ereshkigal, Sumerian goddesses, also emanations, closely related to Lilith (esp. if we see the sisters as One, similarly to how Hecate is Triple Goddess).

Details may change over time, it’s still an ongoing research of mine bc I follow a solitary “temple of one devotee” (myself, preaching to myself), I wasn’t able to find others who somehow got the same… call from Her, so I rely on things I stumble upon (essentially gnosis, sudden knowledge, from Her).

There are other figures in my “pantheon”: Stolas, Great Prince, is also an owl, but masculine. Differently from Goetia where demons are “serfs” to be trapped into a sigil and banished upon fulfillment, I see them as high teachers to be humbly asked, especially Stolas.

@asklemmy@lemmy.world @early_riser@piefed.social

The italic font isn’t rendering on your Piefed side. The missing part between the comma and the full stop is “Athene noctua”.

@early_riser@piefed.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Both due to ADHD hyper-fixation and for spiritual/religious reasons, Athene noctua.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world

Lemmy is one forum with several communities.

No its not.

The feed one sees (or, well, used to see) in, say, LemmyNSFW, isn’t the same feed one sees in far-left Lemmygrad or Hexbear (especially when they were defederated from the entirety of the Fediverse due to domain ownership issues), which isn’t the same feed from right-wing/far-right/ancap instances, which isn’t the same feed from automated bridging instances (e.g. Lemmit, Bridgy or Mostr instances), which isn’t the same feed as aggregators (such as Flipboard), which isn’t the same feed ones sees in general-purpose lemmy.zip… Or in geographically-specific instances such as feddit.org, lemmy.eco.br, feddit.cl… I guess you got the point.

I’ve personally been in many of those instances, I’ve seen each of their feeds. And I promise you: they’re definitely not the same. Their contents don’t necessarily appear in other instances.

And if we include other non-Lemmy platforms (such as Misskey), the differences goes off the charts. Misskey “forums”, for example, are definitely a whole other (animesque) world. Flipboard, Wordpress blogs… They got wholly different feeds. Some of them make their way to some Lemmy instances.

In the end, it all boils down to which instances each instance federates to or defederates with.

Lemmy, and by extension the Fediverse, is but “one” monolithic thing. Ain’t “oneness” when it comes to the Fediverse: this is what Reddit is (as per your previous reply to my comment), it’s Reddit which got “one forum with several communities”, not Lemmy, definitely not Fediverse.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @comicstrips@lemmy.world

Cross-posting and making seventeen posts is quite different.

How so?
Practically speaking, it’s ends up being shown in the same way.

And, again: Fediverse has these gaps of federation. We constantly see instances choosing to defederate from others because of conundra. And people are caught in the crossfire, people who got nothing to do with such conundra, so if they need to seek like-minded people on both sides of the island where the bridges were imploded and airspace is closed until further notice, they ought to cross-post.

Call it "making "+number2English(postAmount)+" posts" or “cross-posting”, this is but a byproduct of how Fediverse is organized in different, often unconnected islands. And you happens to be standing from a quite privileged position in an island where you got this panoramic view of all those air-gapped islands.

Sure, Lemmy front-end algorithms could somehow detect duplicates in the same page (perhaps using Set or something similar) and/or group them as tree-view (that is, something like Object.groupBy(), grouping similar posts, then rendering them under an accordion element). But it doesn’t happen this way. Nonetheless, that would make an interesting suggestion or PR to the Lemmy project.

And no, no-one cross-posts in a dozen and more communities

I can’t really link one right now but I swear I recall seeing posts with a literal dozen of cross-posts. Since I use three different Lemmy instances as a guest for reading the threadiverse (because I actually use Sharkey), such examples are buried in my browsing history. But believe me: this does happen.

And anyone who does it in more than three gets blocked, because that’s spam on Lemmy.

It depends. If you’re talking of the same instance or, especially, the same community, yeah it may be seen as spam and it may lead to deletion or bans.

But we’re talking about different instances, even different platforms (Bad Jlai comics were certainly replicated across Mastodon, Misskey, PixelFed, etc). And, again, your instance happens not to defederate from many instances, hence why you get to see more of the cross-posting phenomenon from where you’re standing.

Disclaimer: I myself don’t cross-post things, I don’t even do posts (I do more comments than posts here in the threadiverse), so I got no stakes on this matter, I’m just another person in this thread trying to add something to the explanation of how Lemmy works.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world

By your logic you should post a news article to every single fucking news community on Lemmy

Sir, this is a Lemmy’s.
The very thing you said, it already happens: it’s called cross-posting and it’s quite common here on Lemmy. I attached a screenshot of just one example among countless others.

It’s pretty normal, and it’s not spammy IMHO: rather, it allows for different parts of Lemmy to better engage in parallel exchanges about the subject in question.

Also, Fediverse doesn’t imply everyone is federated with everyone, some instances defederated from other instances, hence why things benefit of being cross-posted.

mean dozens and dozens and dozens of the same exact fucking post on the front page

Also happens quite frequently, either… Especially, mind you, because we’ve been observing the strange phenomenon where the same situations are happening slightly differently, yet still very similarly, around the world (I just recalled a meme here in Brazil “Pode copiar, só não faz igual”, “You can copy it, just don’t make it exactly the same”).

Both social media platforms and we, the users, can’t help but to post about the slightly different-but-equal variations of the same elephants multiplying like rabbits across this large ballroom that is this Pale Blue Dot.

So if something have been behaving so spammy recently, it’s this increasingly-enshittified, damned Demiurgal world.

Hey, curate your own comments and block me instead of replying. But you didn’t

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’d add the following take: there’s a thing called nuance. Someone can disagree with someone but still continue to dialogue and can, mind you, agree with the same person whose other points they disagree with.

In fact, and it’s quite a meta-moment, I myself don’t fully agree with BadJlai when it comes to certain takes of theirs, particularly their straw-man on political nuance (“greenists-orangists” cartoon), but I myself like their comics and I proceed to appreciate it whenever they post a new comics, even the “greenish-orangists” cartoon I silently disagreed with, because I find their comics cleverly and nicely made, despite of any potential disagreements; this, unironically, is the very thing they seemingly mocked (and the very thing you’re subtly criticizing on your peer, too), the ability to agreeing and disagreeing and holding seemingly-dissonant views on things.