Posts by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
(DIR) Post #Adbm8BlHrQo6wUHYWW by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T14:20:31Z
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Holy fuck. I was bored and doing this Beano 'What Animal Are You?' quiz for shits and giggles, and the last question on the magazine is frankly market research. Editions on a magazine I loved as a kid being turned into direct market research is kinda horrifying. And what's worse is that this post itself then gets turned into a Discourse Post, which on commercial social media becomes engagement and therefore revenue.Social media is unprofitable in terms of production. The capitalist class do not invest in it to get a return on investment, they do it because it directly speeds up circulation. Invest in the infrastructure to reduce the amount of time when commodities are only tenaciously valued. Before someone has bought a commodity, its position is under threat. This is because the embodiment of exchange value, money, is in circulation elsewhere. Hence, one of the key aspects of commodities is in a state of dissonance. Like any musical piece, it "must resolve!" Decrease distance, increase speed, reduce time for processes to take place. The smaller amount of time it takes to make a commodity, the less time the capitalist is in an uncertain spot in production. Some capitalists invest in this and provide a service. Circulation becomes a market.There are 8 parts of circulation. A consumer identifying its needs, a consumer raising funds, a producer identifying a market,making the commodity, moving the money, moving the commodity, consumption, and miscellaneous services. These misc services include insurance and warranty, repairs, terms of service, and so on. Comms infrastructure is the fixed capital invested in circulation for all its informational parts. Thus, social media from the view of the capitalist are means with which their product meets buyers, and not a mode of creating Culture or Art. These things are mere products, and capitalists make those too.Thus, corporate media is a capitalist infrastructure, but one not expected to make profit.
(DIR) Post #Adbm8EU1k3mdNpEJXM by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T14:31:12Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Think about how like Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, EA, H&M, Shell, Microsoft, De Beers, Boeing, etc see the internet. They either use it to sell you shit, sell each other shit, sell governments shit, sell themselves shit, and "influence" the human zeitgeist to further facilitate selling shit
(DIR) Post #Adbm8F85L7pHO3yIyW by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T14:34:51Z
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@UkeBLCatboy What do unsold tubes of toothpaste mean to Colgate? Lost sales. They wanna sell as much of their stock as they can. They don't make toothpaste to make the cleanest teeth on the planet, but because toothpaste sells. Clean teeth is a very consistent market. So the company does as much as it can to influence the market to increase their sales. If they don't, someone like Proctor and Gamble will come in and outcompete them
(DIR) Post #Adbm8J0muCMjQaaX9k by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T14:55:16Z
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@UkeBLCatboy I'm sorry but that weeb life is gonna last maybe 10 more years? Hell, my relatively frugal life is gonna last maybe 10 more years
(DIR) Post #Adbm8M0tkFEijnfAFE by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:08:30Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Oh no I didn't mention anything about dying, I was talking about cheap plastic being too bad for the environment to be usable in wrapping things. Like for example I went to Comic-Con I got a Naruto kunai made of plastic. In like 10 years that'll be seen as ridiculously frivolous, a bit like how we look back at the 20th century and critiqued things like smoking. (Of course these days we've just hidden smoking in the form of vaping, which is under-researched).Also, fuel prices are going up so things like shuttle-buses and plane travel is probably gonna get more expensive unless the plane companies are getting bailed out again. That, and the tech sector is underinvesting in renewables because it's not profitable enough, and common infrastructure like trains are being starved to death so everyone uses cars, which then leads to car dependency like they have in the states...Anyway I'm not saying we'll be dead in 10 years but that our way of life will be seen as wasteful and unviable. People will still make anime and fandom, but will do it better. Stuff like making commissions or custom made Naruto kunai, or by loaning out costumes or re-selling merchanise, or making things which are more biodegradable, or by finding better ways to reuse things, or finding better ways to turn our cheap crap into new cheap crap, and so on
(DIR) Post #Adbm8NYxz459XkbszA by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:10:32Z
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@UkeBLCatboy And part of that is rethinking things like hygiene and single-use plastics. Of course it cannot be deleted forever, lots of disabled people need them for example. And it will also be used in medical spheres, or for people who need regular injections, and so on...
(DIR) Post #Adbm8PQX3OWXKAgB7I by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:14:07Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Exactly
(DIR) Post #Adbm8Qk4AFk9P2pICe by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:16:55Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Weeb life will still be weeb life but done in a way which is in reciprocity with the earth. The refutation I have for your argument is that you assume our capitalist infrastructure is required to maintain weeb life, but I contend that's not necessarily the case. My ethical objection to the collection of data in a Beano album is because Beano is a magazine intended for a child audience. I grew up reading it, and children cannot consent to being used as market research data.
(DIR) Post #Adbm8RgCg6FQJM1ioy by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:22:13Z
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@UkeBLCatboy That's just it, everything changes. Imagine if your figures and toys and merch and food were made by people you know. This is normal, you do commissions all the time. You've gone to enough cons to know that it's a big community. But imagine if that atmosphere was there not just in the con, but outside the con. For example, instead of energy companies yeeting up prices and our nans living cold this winter, we can call the people running the grid and pressure them to reallocate energy to people who need it. Instead of the government not repairing roads, leaving them to rot, we create local groups capable of doing the job ourselves. Instead of disposable razors and bottles of coke, you go visit the barber and go get a glass of cola at the local cafe. Instead of disposable foam takeaway boxes, or recyclable cardboard, people just habitually bring washable boxes to the place where they get food
(DIR) Post #Adbm8T5lQYHuguzeIi by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:38:52Z
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@UkeBLCatboy To be fair I'm also from a space where it's kinda normal to make stuff. My formative years were with furries and nerds. So I went to the local makerspace, where someone had taken a talking fish head from a bin and made it into a chatbot. Someone else found an old graphics card in a bin and repaired it. In the corner, someone was working on her embroidery commissions, another was making a Doom mod, and someone else was making animations in Blender. There were days where my mate is like "hold on gotta weld something real quick" and he'd be back with furniture for his car.3D printers, software licenses, manufacturing equipment, components, rent, and training are expensive but it's possible for everyone to pitch in a little bit. A bit like how you pay for the library. And that means that it's also easier to make stuff and train people. If a welding shop or an electronics place were as accessible as a library, then culture would adapt to one of curiosity. "I wanna see if I can map the stars! I wanna learn how to make guitar pedals! I wanna make a chair that suits my body!" And with automation, it doesn't have to be homemade or custom, it could be just telling a big machine: "Size E7 Chair, please!"
(DIR) Post #Adbm8UrepyC0BkPPai by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:45:22Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Apologies I'm being rather critical of something you find comforting. I'm just trying to find a way to redesign the world in a way that's still relatively comfortable, but isn't horrifically unstable
(DIR) Post #Adbm8WnpdAJwCSdNuC by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:48:33Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Oh! That's kinda nice, I'm always used to being treated with hostility when I start going on rambles
(DIR) Post #Adbm8XfiOpQEtZqPtQ by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:52:26Z
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@UkeBLCatboy I do want them to keep existing. Although ifTransportation gets changed from car-dependency to public transport (Already done in some parts of Europe)Organisation of events goes from companies to commissions and cooperatives (Partially done with some contractor fields, hacker culture, furry culture, etc)Production of goods goes from exploitative (P&G, Shell, ...) to reciprocal (People you know)Then I think that will change conventions. At least here in the UK
(DIR) Post #Adbm8ZHgP9O3tccFiC by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T15:57:33Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Exactly, it's already there for conventions and other parts of our culture, but I wanna see that level of community be involved with other things too
(DIR) Post #Adbm8axCCIBh4f2v3Y by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T16:02:01Z
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@UkeBLCatboy The present situation for conventions and anime (that is, community and reciprocity) is a kind of goal, but only because it's not the present situation for food, water, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, and so on. I don't wanna just buy beer, I wanna know the people who make it and know they're doing okay
(DIR) Post #Adbm8cd3y7GuGndrxA by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T16:06:26Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Yeah that makes sense, things are usually too complex to know everyone involved
(DIR) Post #Adbm8hkKwV3q8o5FU8 by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T16:29:09Z
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@UkeBLCatboy Fave anime's probably either Code Geass, Trigun, Stein's;Gate, or Haruhi :D
(DIR) Post #Adbm8j2S8d989HZEMS by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-07T16:32:24Z
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@UkeBLCatboy How about you?
(DIR) Post #AdhrEgkFkfhfn4oBhQ by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-10T12:46:06Z
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@volpeon It's an oversimplification born from an emotional reaction: watching a machine rip you off without your consent, undermining some select livelihoods (admittedly predominantly in the already kinda bougie intersection between tech and art), while bad actors use the Ripoff Machine to make porn of people and freeboot your friends' work. I don't think it's about the underlying epistemology about whether an AI's art-conscious or whether organic beings make art originally, but about an increasing precarity for creative workers predicated on an overblown technical trend based on hype and exploitation
(DIR) Post #Adhs4WQXMJdQqeIpBQ by avesbury_rosetta@wetdry.world
2024-01-10T12:57:57Z
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@volpeon The worst thing one can do to a cause is to defend it with dishonesty cause it then stains the integrity of everyone in the cause