Hah, reading this not too long after watching Freya Holmer’s latest video/talk is fun. “Everybody is disagreeing, except everyone is agreeing that unreal is wrong”. The image is by her (it’s also used in the presentation). And she mentioned wanting to make it easier/possible to change handedness. She’d already had an ‘apology’ from Sweeny for the Unreal configuration. Interesting to see they’re taking it further than that.
Putting the fascist back in eco fascist? Honestly with Musk I’m not convinced about the eco part, EVs notwithstanding. Dude seems to just go for stuff he thinks it’s cool, and while I agree on the coolness factor on some (space, electric stuff, videogames) I’m less on board with some of the other stuff (putting too much in space, trying to boringly reinvent the train, trans rights, governmental positions, fascism).
So, we’re gonna tackle bot manipulation for research purposes at the same time we’re gonna deal with bot manipulation for ads and political manipulation, right? Or is it just not okay to do for scientific ends but fine if it’s to sell you shit or advance a political agenda?
To be clear, this is very much not okay, it’s just weird to me that once the goal is to sell you shit people are much more accepting of it as business as usual.
Ootl, but censorship? Are you referring to the removal of the anti pronoun mod, or is there something I missed?
One that’s more than just anti authoritarian but has it as one of the many societal issues it deals with would be Transmetropolitan. The pitch: Hunter s. Thompson in a cyberpunk future. Kicks against many a shin that needs kicking. It’s one of my favorite works, not just in comics but in general. Some of the political aspects are eerily prescient, it’s got style in spades, it actually deals with issues rather than using it as set dressing. It’s got character and (so long as you read the protagonist as a fuckhead that’s mostly along the right lines, which you should) a good moral compass.
One strong counterrecommendation of it: the author (Warren Ellis) may have made many great works, but the guy is/was a sex pest. It’s not something I could in good conscience leave unsaid. It’s the reason I didn’t buy a physical copy of anything but the first chapter, and the reason I recommend it to people way less these days.
Echoing buzzkill door notification control. Whether you want to automatically dismiss, prevent, mute, batch, or summarize a bunch of notifications (or do a host of other things with them), buzzkill has got you, and you can be as specific or general about what notifications trigger it as you want.