The Quuuuuill

“Well we gotta nuke somebody”

the key to being a good machine gun is that you be cheap and lots of bullets come out of the end. this absolutely does that even if time has marched on

still. it’s the year 2025. XDG_CONFIG should be the standard assumption

• subprime attention crisis
• nico neumann’s 2019 talk at programmatic i/o
• “data suggests surprising shift: duopoly not all-powerful” eMarketer 2018
• financial markets and online advertising: reevaluating the dotcom bubble
• “wanamaker was wrong-the vast majority of advertising is wasted” forbes 2016
• “56% of digital ads served are never seen, says google” AdAge 2014

to start

read the subprime attention crisis. ads markets have gotten extremely uneffective

this is an act of desperation by the digital ad markets. they have to innovate new types of ad to sell because more and more the only ads that actually work even a little bit are personal testimony and billboards, neither of which the digital ad markets actually sell. we are currently experiencing an economic collapse in the advertising space which is driving the ad markets to use their propaganda machines for less and less scrupulous purposes. ever wonder why there’s so much right wing bullshit in your youtube ads now? because that shit didn’t sell razors or soap or mattresses or whatever. but it CAN make people very scared and upset

it feels to me like middle age twitter. like circa 2012-2018

anyway

this dude killed 300,000 americans and people are somehow surprised that he’s unbothered by the prospect of killing untold vast swaths of people now that it’s been demonstrated that he will never be held accountable for his actions

yeah hamas sucks. it’s important to understand though why people are turning to hamas right now: it’s that, or die. so there are a lot of people with hamas right now who don’t hate jews, but are fighting alongside or even under a terrorist group who does genuinely and deeply suck.

you need to go outside and talk to like… people. you did a logical fallacy, got called out on it, and then dug your heels in. lemmy and mkin for whatever reason manages to make people really angry and sometimes the best thing to do is just… log out for a couple months.

this comment right here is why zionism is antisemitic. it poisons people who don’t know any better into thinking israel represents judaism.

you act like they haven’t for decades

worse, we vote for healthcare reforms that would take us back to when no one poor got any care at all. we elected our own killers