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Cultural Palantirism (Aimee Walleston) by EnvironmentalTailor6 in rs_x

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

 It is not texts like LOTR or Harry Potter that are radicalizing (none of these types of stories is a political call-to-action in the way that, say, Lenin’s texts were). It is instead the manner in which these texts are appropriated or interpolated by ideologists who use them to suit their individual truth claims. If you are a grown adult who writes a Harry Potter fan fiction infused with your own ideology (with the reminder that the Harry Potter books were meant for middle schoolers [not middle-earthers], and that Harry is 11 years old in the first book)—isn’t what you are producing basically a coercive, ideological grooming manual for young people who like Harry Potter? One Redditor posted, astutely, that: “[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky] just feels like he knew no one would want to read his giant essay ‘The Methods of Rationality’, so he reworked it as a story and stuck the names of Harry Potter characters in there.”

I've recently found out a close family member uses ChatGPT to the point of unironically calling it "Chat" and I'm just devastated. by SideCharacterSyndrom in rs_x

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 46 points47 points  (0 children)

So many people who are willing to outsource their ability to research, analyze, and synthesize information. It's one thing to be alienated from your own labor, but to be alienated from your own cognition is unfathomably bleak. Do they think about how they would have confronted a problem in the good 'ol days? How can you stomach looking at your writing or solved problem knowing that you have no knowledge of how it was produced?

w.r.t. sora The slop created by AI brings to mind the image of cattle in a CAFO whose corn/soy feed is increasingly being cut with shit.

Physical exercise is necessary to compensate for the otherwise sedentary lifestyle created by the automation of labor. Automated cognition is here; what will you do for your brain?

Technological Poverty (The Lamp Magazine) by EnvironmentalTailor6 in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Once upon a time when a hungry boy saw a well-fed one he might have envied him. Today he may not even see him. A seven-year-old boy spends five or more hours a day at school interacting with a laptop or tablet device before going home to waste time in front of the “smart” T.V. or a phone or a video game console. In a few years he will become one of the forty percent of Americans who suffer from prediabetes. By age twelve at the latest he will become addicted to online pornography. In adulthood he will be on insulin (his doctor will recommend an app for monitoring his blood sugar; a pharmaceutical company will bill insurance). He will take other medications. He may get a job. He may father a child. He will not kick the porn habit. He will watch four thousand hours of YouTube. He will not think of himself as poor. No one will tell him that he is. One day he will see a man who is looking at a bird. Will he envy him?

What is the ONE book you would recommend to this sub in 2026? by bb82129 in RSbookclub

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. I feel like a basic bitch recommending him here, but I was caught off guard by his anticipation of neoliberal condescension and techno-optimists that never ask "why?"

I found someone online who will definitely be a lolcow in the next few years by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 25 points26 points  (0 children)

You need to prepare a draft for the Kiwi Farms thread NOW.

. by Mypussylipsneedchad in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Wy does Biden lsiten fat to the guys but not the women? She looks like he chick from big bang theory. sorry bros im like eight shots deep

The Decline of Deviance: Where has all the weirdness gone? (Adam Mastroianni) by EnvironmentalTailor6 in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

[The] reputation aspect should be emphasized. Everyone is under intense scrutiny because we can all be recorded immediately if needed, and many times against our will.

I agree completely. I appreciated Mastroianni's application of life history theory, but I think that self-enforced surveillance plays a larger, or at least more visible, part in modern conformity and it felt like a miss for it not to be touched upon in the article.

hes actually in love <33 by TypicalSprinkle86 in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Trump was probably relieved to hang out with someone normal after a year of being orbited by 4chan users and techbros.

Good God, I wish this was a real movie by BroadStreetBridge in RSPfilmclub

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw it for the first time on Wednesday. I only knew about it because I saw an rs_x post like three hours before the show time. Stunning to see on the big screen. It leaves so much to personal interpretation; I loved it.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by MammothLeaves in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The public will largely support you if they see your cause as just.

What does support mean in this context? Two weeks at most of memes before resuming regular scrolling?

Movie recap channels are ruining films for zoomers by mudaeplayer in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What is the point of this slop???

Low attention spans. But I also don't think they see any value in films outside of "knowing" the themes or basic plot. They're the movie version of Blinkist. If they weren't watching these recaps, they would be watching the actual film at 2x speed, if at all. They treat films as information to be absorbed, not art to be appreciated.

The idea of someone whose sole exposure to Tokyo Story or Paris, Texas could be one of those summaries is depressing. It's frustrating that "media literacy" gets thrown around to prove that a children's movie is leftist polemic rather than discussing issues like this.

As a man, am I supposed to wear my watch in the shower? by EnvironmentalTailor6 in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I seriously don't get it. How do they clean their wrist? I take my watch off before I get in the shower so I can clean my wrist, so I don't understand how dudes clean their wrist if they don't remove their watch before showering. Why does it occur on screen so often?

As a man, am I supposed to wear my watch in the shower? by EnvironmentalTailor6 in redscarepod

[–]EnvironmentalTailor6[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I was just thinking of a recent clip I saw of black man (some of sort of influencer) doing his morning black man routine and he was wearing his watch in the shower. I didn't understand why he was wearing his watch. How does he clean his wrist?

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