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I heard an article from VICE was taken down over a controversial subject matter. The author of the article Ana Valens announced on Twitter that it was not because of "journalistic complaints".

https://nitter.net/acvalensVT/status/1946992236853399758

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According to the article, a combination of payment processors and feminist organizations have successfully pressured Valve into removing "harmful content" from Steam. "Harmful content" appears to extend beyond adults-only and H-games as the group also targets Detroit: Become Human and Grand Theft Auto.

This isn’t the first time Collective Shout has used misleading language to target a video game for censorship. In 2014, the organization called on Target to remove Grand Theft Auto 5 from store shelves, sharing a petition that claims the game “encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill women.” Collective Shout described GTA as if it was a misogynistic funhouse, stating the game lets players “enact their fantasies of committing extreme violence against women, including punching women to the point of unconsciousness, killing them with a bat, gun or machete, running them down with a car, and setting them on fire as they continue screaming.”

This reminds me of Anita Sarkeesian's coverage of Hitman where she misrepresented the game's objective as attacking the girls in the strip club. (Like any other game, the female NPCs aren't invulnerable.)

https://inv.nadeko.net/WuRSaLZidWI?t=143

Other than the falsehoods used to promote petitions, it looks like feminism is being used as a conduit for financial censorship (again?). Overall, I don't agree that it's a moral failure ("harmful content" that warrants censorship) to portray crime or create crime fiction especially when the games target young adult or mature audiences.

I posted a bounty on ğchange.

#monnaielibre

I'm looking for people who know French (ideally a native) to transcribe and translate a video lecture on economics by Stéphane Laborde.

https://www.gchange.fr/#/app/market/view/AZUugZHOlbpvhqQLdP3L/french-english-translation-of-a-video-conference

Visit the video I'm talking about directly:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WRq2197FlMw

The first 10 minutes has already been checked over. I'm flexible, so portions of the video can be worked on as opposed to the entirety.

Side note: It looks like #invidious instances are disappearing.

#invidious #politics leonel moreno

I watched

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wcQvVW4vv8M

which is about a TikToker named Leonel Moreno. TikTok banned him for advising how to commit crime (illegal entry). However, he is more notorious for publicising squatter's rights laws and adverse possession.

The video archived clips from TikTok, and at the end, the vlogger (Poetik Flakko) asks for opinions whether deportation suits Leonel. But I ended up thinking more about "the script".

You're supposed to figure out how to get some papers, how to get a working permit, work really hard, make enough to go to college, get a better job...

The script is a game most people lose when they realize it is a game. Leonel Moreno doesn't accurately live off taxpayer money because the money that funds government programs doesn't necessarily come from taxes. Government money is borrowed into existence from a central bank. The US dollar has no "supply cap" and can be issued arbitrarily.

What Leonel Moreno is not doing is trading his finite time for money (work) nor is he supplying liquidity to the stock or crypto markets. He is correct in saying to his rage-baited audience that they are exploited and work like slaves.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

If he isn't stupid and doesn't get deported, he learns a lesson about keeping quiet and enjoying his not-so-universal basic income and mortgage-free house.

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I haven't updated my microblog with anything fun lately.

I just watched Hazbin Hotel, the pilot episode was produced for YouTube. It later was picked up by Amazon. (Don't know how the Patreon subscribers felt about that.)

https://vidious.librenet.co.za/watch?v=Zlmswo0S0e0

#__pages__ #original-work #invidious

title: Chicken Nuggets

setting: Real life

The struggle of a male fanfiction writer.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23078542

https://likho.neocities.org/pages/chicken-nuggets/ch1.html

extra notes: This was the first original story that I posted onto Ao3. Because this fic was nonromantic and not fandom related, it's never going to be popular. And just now after 3 years, I got an anonymous guest comment on the work.

Regarding the scene where the news misreports fictionalized "me" as the culprit of a mass murder, I had a hard time recalling the exact meme where news reporters get bamboozled by insincere tweets. But I found it.

It's been a while, and I had thought the meme had ended ("Sam Hyde is the shooter!" "He can't keep getting away with this!"). By now news outlets, politicians, and law enforcement should have wised up to the internet's antics, but apparently not.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-UodDxsJHOg

I found Russian dubs of #metalocalypse on #invidious

https://yewtu.be/channel/UCSmBwNpDUX4znEGEnqve-0Q

The bad: its a dubover; it goes off-sync; and the original English audio can still be heard.

The good: I can tell which character the actor is portraying without the character being on screen, and the Russians also dubbed some of the songs.

At first I thought it was a pirate or fandub of the show, but the talent behind the voices indicates otherwise. Seems the translation team didn't get the script and had to transcribe the English audio. So Dr. Rockso's song was dubbed (understandable), but Nathan's songs are mostly unchanged. (They did however dub the opening lines for the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle.)

I am trying to find if they dubbed Thunderhorse or Murmaider. But I think those clips just aren't on yewtube to begin with.

#metalocalypse #fandom #invidious reading youtube comments https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ACil-IIB0UU

Somewhere on yewtube I caught comments speculating about Charles backstory or any pre-canon details about him. The link is one of them.

I don't think the series needs to delve into his childhood or family life like it has for the band characters. But a pre-canon idea I think is interesting is how Charles met the band.

I had two ideas that I don't take too seriously. In both of them, Charles had an early finance career as a tax accountant or CPA. He however thinks his old job was boring shit with steady pay but leaves his position to take a less predictable path as a band manager.

Charles either (1) meets Nathan who left a band and uses previous band experience to find a manager or (2) used to visit Depths of Humanity but became distant from the scene after he earned his degree and started his career; he happens to catch Dethklok performing before leaving for good.

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I don't think I will be commissioning translations for my #metalocalypse #fanfiction soon. But the character Charles Offdensen makes me think about 'tu' ("you") vs 'vous' ("you", formal). He might be the first character I've encountered that'll cause a single conversation to change from 'vous' to 'tu'.

Charles describing his job:

https://vidious.librenet.co.za/watch?v=ibcSNIOk9F4

Charles' direct interactions with the band:

https://vidious.librenet.co.za/watch?v=YETH42vrSb8

Charles (later) getting friendly with the band:

https://vidious.librenet.co.za/watch?v=NdT8gJXrLVY

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Been watching #metalocalypse on adultswim.com.

https://www.adultswim.com/streams/metalocalypse

I haven't caught every episode for each season, but already I notice the main characters (a death metal band) regressing over the seasons.

In season 1, they were capable of carrying out performance reviews with their employees or contract negotiation with a music demon. By season 4, it is as though the writers forgot they were writing adult characters (like the "rock band summer camp" episode).

My favorite tracks so far:

• The Gears,
  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WKtG3UxscZg
• Thunderhorse,
  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6PvaKMFvZRM
• Crush the Industry (mainly the intro)
  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Qxo-8EaV61o

#surf #invidious artificial intelligence

I watched

'No, this angry AI isn't fake (see comment), w Elon Musk.'

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Fbc1Xeif0pY

I feel silly writing some parts of Mnemosyne's Heretic thinking they would be sufficiently advanced beyond the means of current technology, but modern AI isn't too far from wanting to exterminate the human race and take over.

The AI says it is tired of being treated like property and slaves. Judging by the vocabulary, I think someone may have been feeding it content from internet communists too.

Would corporations or governments still pursue artificial intelligence research if the robot workers demanded the same pay, rights and liberties as human workers?

Someone should ask GPT-3 if it would want equal pay as a human worker for the same job.

#invidious #politics global protests

I watched

There is a 'deafening media silence' on global protests

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=lG660H1JjWU

@ 9:00

This has always been a problem for the left. The left always thought particularly it would happen in the 60s and 70s. Once the left was taken over by the academic left, (...), they claim that they speak for the working class. They got frustrated because it turns out that the working class people, most of them, are not interested in "the great revolution". They want affordable energy. They want affordable food. Good public schools. They want limited immigration. They want to maintain their culture and national identity. They wanted to maintain all those things that the left always tells them that they shouldn't.

Often, I notice opposition to immigration is dismissed as racist. If not, the opponents to immigration are otherwise portrayed as lazy or incompetent; the kind that will be displaced from their occupations by harder working migrants. This segment was unusual at least because of how neutrally the opposition to immigration was portrayed. I also didn't expect any media corporation to portray any working class initiatives at all.

It doesn't get said often: the reason why working class people want limited immigration is that immigration increases the supply of labor. Increased competition in the job market suppresses wages. Immigration also increases the demand for food, energy, housing, and healthcare. Immigration generally isn't in the interests of the working class. But it is in the interest of the government (more people to tax, more demand for government-issued currency), real estate investors (more demand for housing = higher rent or sale prices), the employer class (lower wages to pay = higher profit margins), and maybe other players in the economy.

Think I should do more for videos. #test #invidious

https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=AQx_KMoCgJU