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Comment Re: Would anyone have noticed? (Score 0) 61

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

Comment Re:More importantly. (Score 1) 122

You have a point.

But what large group of people has there ever been where there has been no toxicity or social problems within?

Facebook, Twitter, social media in general, IRC, ICQ, news groups.... I've been around a looooong time on the internet, enough time to understand that the problem is not the platform, its the people.

How do we solve that?

Comment Re:Doing what? (Score 3, Insightful) 26

It is the new antivaxx. People who know a little more than the average non-techie person based ofc on mostly secondhand sources amp up the scare factor and get positive feedback in terms of clicks & attention and -- if they graduate to grifting -- ads. Yeah it is all a con stochastic parrots biggest bubble since tulips scorch the planet yadda. Meanwhile materials scientists using it to make better solar panels, plasma physicists using it to enable fusion, medical science unlocking the proteome for personal designer therapies.

People should spend their energy learning how the tools work, and how to use them well.

Comment Re:Who didn't immediately disable Pocket in Firefo (Score 5, Interesting) 62

If I had mod points I would upvote this. Please do yourself a favor and use LibreWolf. It is literally just Mozilla with the adware/telemetry ripped out, uBlock0 preinstalled and good privacy-preserving defaults while maintaining usability. In other words it is what people who donate money and code to Mozilla are trying to help create, namely, a non-commercial open source browser for users by users.

My only complaint is that they will not shut up and take my money

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