More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.

The outcome always seems to be “what’s most beneficial for Netanyahu’s survival.”

And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?

I mean the application could tell by looking at how its encoded, right?

Though I acknowledge how problematic “trusting” the app to do that is.

Lemmy needs a trinary vote system

• Downvote

• Upvote

• Upvote, but you curse out loud as you upvote

Yeah, I feel like people are freaking out and ignoring that Biden (and Trump) are largely the people they surround themselves with, and the policies they push.

They’ve both been president for years.

Yeah, I mean we’re like lobsters being slow boiled.

This whole situation is mad, but it feels plausible because it’s been ratcheted up so gradually.

Can you imagine the country’s reaction if they say this 2 decades ago?

No, plenty of nonpartisan and even liberal people were yelling this too. I had no illusions of Biden’s age.

America is not just two internet echo chambers… even if it feels like it right now.

It’s because they use every dirty trick for views.

Stuffing it into your feed unsolicited, autoplaying it, promoting it everywhere because it’s an engaging post, spamming push notifications, whatever. Not to speak of a swarm of bots liking it.

It’s probably as inflated as can be without being obviously legally negligent.

Webp works fine for me now.

The problem is AVIF. I mean I love AVIF (almost as much as JPEG-XL), but it doesn’t work with anything except browser web pages, even after all this time.

Because the election is a popularity contest, and name recognition is everything.

And he’s the incumbent. He is president right now.

I don’t think it’s even about candidates, but just focusing on appearances.

That’s what grabs attention and makes money. Even the robotic social media feed algorithms know this.

I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

That’s the next debate.

Trump’s idea, until he backtracks on stage and says he ‘never knew this woman.’ And Biden’s team goes along with it, thinking it will be a distraction, and somehow Biden blurts this out and makes it backfire.

CNN can’t help themselves. They need to compete with social media I guess.

I dunno, that debate just made me sad.

Oh, they will play this debate in clips forever.

We live in an age of YouTube and tiktok shorts.

We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it’s coming true awfully fast.

It’s like a cherry on top.

Or anyone period.

It’s not a hyper personalized model of users running on GPUs.

The irony here is most AI is “mundane” and not diffusion or LLM AI.

For instance… the “AI” X is using to produce feeds ingest posts, serve ads and such.

X, Facebook and so on are the real villains here, and Mastadon, Lemmy, and (I guess?) Bluesky are the heroes, skipping all that attention optimization nonsense.

No, I never meant for it to be. I just wanted to stay alive and not give covid to someone else like, you know, someone sane.

But alas I didn’t want it to be political, but it was. I could assert that all I want, and it doesn’t change the community I had to interact with.

I dunno. I felt judged whenever I was walking around wearing a mask. One time I put one on when some guy walked up to me when I was walking my dog, and it kinda started an argument. A tow truck driver literally told me masks were government control devices before he jumped our car.

I felt like I was masking alone sometimes, like I was offending the public for doing it.

Just because that’s absurd doesn’t mean masses of people didn’t see masking as political. To me, it was kinda hard to ignore.