arctanthrope

how are you still doing that, I thought they all shut down like three years ago with the whole API debacle

as I understand, premium accounts are paid out per-user proportional to which channels they spend the most time watching. so if a user spends 30 minutes watching channel A and 1 hour watching channel B, and doesn’t watch anything else, then channel A gets 33% of that user’s subscription fee (after YouTube takes their cut), and channel B gets 67%

“if we don’t test, there’s no cases”

apparently limited to 25,000 for the 250th anniversary. doesn’t say how they’ll be distributed, but sounds like an opt-in kinda thing. at least I really hope so, I need to renew mine soon

how were they supposed to know that the company called “crystal ball used by Satan-analogue to gather intel and to seduce or deceive opposition to ensure success in war to enslave mankind” was evil when they agreed to work for them?

let’s hope it comes back around

CiviClick, which bills itself as “the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform.”

so the word “grassroots” just doesn’t fucking mean anything anymore, huh

it’s nice, but it’s been over a decade since people started talking about needing a $15 minimum wage, with inflation that same value is more like $20 now

this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

edit - hmm, needs workshopping I guess. maybe something like: “over thousands of years, humans have refined data storage from its most primitive beginnings as marks on rocks, to its most advanced novelty, different marks on different rocks”

exactly, the real Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, they were opposed to wealthy factory owners using technology in a way that eliminated or cheapened their labor to extract more profit. what Sanders and most others are citing as threats posed by “ai” are actually perfectly in line with the Luddites, but they’re not allowed to say so because the actual history of the Luddites has been smeared and propagandized to make them look like unreasonable morons who are scared of things they can’t comprehend