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Serious question: what are y'all's methods to prevent/deal with spicy pillows?

That's your example of softcore porn? There's much racier content on magazine covers in the grocery checkout line. Stop trying to impose your puritanical aesthetic on the rest of the world. It's called /all for a reason. What's wrong with you?!

I don't really get all the hate on the comments.

Agreed. "Oh no! Not an ETL!" I wish more applications were backed by MySQL, MariaDB, Mongo, etc. Give me the option of encryption at rest, and when it's time to change apps, I have granular control over everything.

On the other hand, the advantage of all the hate is everyone presenting their faves and providing their reasons. So ...net win for the audience?

What you propose is simple (as in simplistic), but far from easy. Content moderation at scale is extremely difficult, if not impossible. See "Masnick's Impossibility Theorem."

Also, deplatforming bigots is difficult and ineffective:

• https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/vu2023no.pdf
• https://www.theregreview.org/2023/11/09/mcdonald-the-limits-of-deplatforming/ (bonus link/spoiler alert: it's a monopoly issue https://www.theregreview.org/2024/01/16/englebert-a-role-for-antitrust-in-online-content-moderation/)

Yes please to the interviews! And as always, thank you so much for these! I always get a happy bounce when I see your banner appear in my feed.

The relationship correlation data makes a lot of sense if only from a bandwidth perspective.

Correct. I can definitively say "I don't know how this happened." But I do know it creeps me out and spurs me to speed up my privacy efforts.

@Marty_Man_X@lemmy.world and @TORFdot0@lemmy.world both make great points, both of which can certainly explain the sudden change in suggestions.

Anecdote: (a little background) I don't typically deal with narcissistic people; I'm not troubled by narcissists in my life. My tech life is pretty well locked down, but it could always be better (working on it). And my YouTube suggestions are tightly, carefully curated to topics pertinent to my professional and personal projects.

I had an utter piece of shit contractor working for me on a project; he was a grifting, conniving, manipulative shitbag. When I outright fired his ass, he first got all self-righteous then tried to play the victim, but I wasn't playing any of his games. My phone was sitting on the workbench next to me.

The next day, I opened YouTube because an engineer I know told me he dropped a new video on software we recently discussed. There among my suggestions were a bunch of videos on how to deal with narcissists. So somehow, in only talking with the contractor (he doesn't use email, text, or other electronic communications), YouTube decided I was curious about dealing with narcissism. I'm morbidly curious how YouTube made that decision, and whether it was audio or "we know you're associating with this guy who we identify as a problematic narcissist and here are some resources."

Now, I'm just some douchecanoe on the internet and you should probably dismiss me based on that alone. But GODDAMN, the data points sure do pile up quickly on how deeply we're being surveilled.

Have you read "Red Team Blues" by Cory Doctorow? And if so, how did you feel it captured Red Team work?

This article feels a little disingenuous and seems written by someone who has only heard their friend complain about David Brooks. In his book "The Second Mountain," Brooks goes into his mea culpa moments. He has on more than a few occasions admitted his errors. I would share citations, but it was a library loan and it's on hold.

Those of us who protest against power, aren't we looking for exactly the kind of change of hearts and minds such that Brooks is showing?

As always, amazing content. Thank you for your reporting!