Wait. You’re advocating for collective punishment for Americans resisting Trump?

Unconventional choice, as it is 3D, but Supraland. Fantastic world to explore, so satisfying getting new powers and reaching areas.

This is a big hit to gaming. Polygon was a reliable source and employed a lot of knowledgeable and passionate writers and creators. It had its critics because it didn’t cater to gamergate, but for most of us that was a good thing.

Valnet has blown up many sites before to make unreliable content farms. They practically invented the business.

I hope the laid off writers at Polygon are able to make something like 404media.

I switched back to VLC a while ago after trying others. Not fancy, but it tends to just work.

Right? Imagine being the white man chosen to go to the moon based on skin color and gender, knowing that more qualified astronauts had been passed up and that you are effectively propaganda. That would not be a great moment.

There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.

To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I’m sure you don’t intend this.

Headlines, titles, thumbs don’t really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I’d rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.

An important part of media literacy is understanding sources and context. This YouTube creator is anything but clickbait on the topic of orbital mechanics.

Peer review is false security, so much bad and fraudulent science gets through, but due to the stamp of authority people are less skeptical. Additionally it’s harder to publish good science.

There’s a lot of people who understand this better than me who can explain it. Here’s one starting point. https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

Forbes, for many years, has been mostly written by freelance bloggers. Some is very high quality (some is not) but it’s not like an editor in a newsroom is asking for these stories.

They have journalists on staff still but they write a minority of what Forbes publishes online.

Not to defend Google because they violate privacy in many ways, but they absolutely do not share that level of data with partners. This is not some ethical decision. The data is just far too valuable to Google. Google is extracting as much value as they can from users, advertisers, and publishers, and if they sold access to the data itself, publishers and advertisers could begin cutting out Google. Instead Google gives advertisers a lot of control over what users to target, and uses the data inside a black box to show those ads.

Google is hoarding your data and using it to show you ads with minimal built-in opt-outs. But they aren’t sell your data.

They also have a book about human evolution. 😵

Any thoughts from less bigoted creators would be welcome. Not in the mood to watch anything with this person.

Twilight works pretty well

Your comment strikes me as particularly harmful and misguided because autistic people are often specifically targeted for abuse and even seen as deserving of abuse.

I am sort of grateful, because you’ve unintentionally really made it starkly clear to me. We should not platform unrepentant enablers of abuse regardless of their prior contributions, it simply causes too much harm.

I see, thanks.

I’m not really an expert on this, but a major piece is the idea that fears (and our thoughts about them) aren’t based in reality. Often times for ND people, they are indeed based in reality. Changing how we think about these things doesn’t help, and can often harm.

It’s obviously very personal, YMMV, but there are good alternatives in many cases.

I was referring to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as the CBT that could be harmful to some neurodivergent people.

CBT can be harmful in many cases, including to many neurodivergent people. Just often worth being cautious and looking into alternatives.

Grim Dawn has a new expansion coming next year too.

Godus had real promise, I played the early release. Absolutely never delivered on what it promised, implicitly or explicitly, though.