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I genuinely believe that social media is now solely used as a tool for crowd control, and mass manipulation. The evidence for such is overwhelming. The way which data can be manipulated and the perception of reality shifted. Even now, on sites like this, i have no real way of knowing if people are real or not. I operate on the assumption that they are, whether or not they are feds, or some advertising intern trying to learn more about subcultures is another thing entirely. That's the real issue I see, that the surface level internet like social media, is consistently manipulated and fed ideas which are perpetuated by bots, troll farms, real people using fake accounts to spread misinfo or even just to shill their products. its not about right v left. that entire politicization of the internet is also intentional. memes that are created by mis-info agents to spread paranoia and distrust of anyone who doesn't agree with you wholeheartedly. it is pure insanity. I want to copy and paste this from wiki talking about the key ideas behind Baudrillard's simulacra and simulation. which i think echoes alot of the ideas people have about mistrusting social media, the internet and why the idea of "dead internet theory" seems very accurate. because simply put, it is simulated reality. there is plenty of evidence showing how much these companies put into generating fake content in order to make it seem like the internet is more full of life than it actually is. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Simulacra and Simulation delineates the sign-order into four stages: The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where we believe, and it may even be correct, that a sign is a "reflection of a profound reality" (pg 6), this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called "the sacramental order". The second stage is perversion of reality, this is where we come to believe the sign to be an unfaithful copy, which "masks and denatures" reality as an "evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence". Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating. The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the "order of sorcery", a regime of semantic algebra where all human meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth. Post truncated. Enter the thread to view. ~~Anonymous 2023-06-16(Fri)06:24:09 No.196

A number of scientists analyzed data from various sites on The Web, and found that attention -span has indeed been declining over the years: "Sune and his colleagues wanted to understand what has been driving this change, so they built a complex mathematical model to try and figure it out." "It's a bit like the systems used by climate scientists to predict the weather. It was designed to see what you could do to data to make it rise and fall at faster and faster rates, in ways that resemble the decline in collective attention they had been documenting." "What they discovered is that there is one mechanism that can make this happen every time, You just have to flood the system with more information. The more information you pump in, the less time people can focus on any individual piece of it." "It's a fascinating explanation of why this acceleration is happening' Sune told me. Today,'There's more information in the system.So if you think about 100 years ago, literally it would take time for news to travel.If there was some kind of huge catastrophe,in Norwegia,they would have to get down to Oslo, someone would write it up, it would slowly find it's way across the globe..." Post truncated. Enter the thread to view. ~~Anonymous 2023-06-15(Thu)15:37:01 No.195

I wonder what your opinion is on evolutionary psychology. Some people treat is as an iron-clad thing; our instinctual drives and biological characteristics, laid early on in human history, direct our activities to this day,despite attempts to repress or re-direct them. Others consider that innacurate, pseudo-religious; basically they think that it only somewhat affects the probability of an outcome, with another major factor to consider being the environment that individuals live in. What do you think? ~~Anonymous 2023-06-14(Wed)14:47:51 No.190

To me it makes sense that it's a factor that affects our lives, though I wouldn't say it overpowers us completely, because certainly environmental factors play their part, also. I find it convincing to think that we lived without electricity for 99% of our time walking the Earth and that we know for sure that light pollution, especially at night when we should be sleeping, is harmful to us, so there are reasons to believe in evolutionary psychology. However, the sole fact that we not only succesfully invented time-keeping devices but also regimented our lives not around sunrise and sunset but the hands of the clock certainly proves that we can alter our destinies despite whatever our biology is attuned to, for better or for worse. ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-14(Wed)21:29:29 No.193

Do you have a favourite era of retro-futurism? The current craze is the turn of the millenum variety, but I prefer the mid 20th Century variety. Much sleeker and classier. Etherealism doesn't exactly appeal to me. ~~Anonymous 2023-06-14(Wed)14:51:12 No.191

It may be cliched, but I like retrofuturism of the "casette" variety, 70-80s, stuff you'd see in early cyberpunk movies. Does that count as turn of the millenium? A world where computers never stopped being analog/early digital, the only storage media are floppies and tape and there are loads of CRTs with monochrome displays. Would I wanna live in such a world? I don't think so, because it's always depicted in a bleak manner, but I like analog media! I wonder if retrofuturist fantasy is a thing; everything's better with magic. ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-14(Wed)16:06:43 No.192

Just wanted to say thank you for saying RIP for Uncle Ted <3 ~~THOUGHTCRIMES 2023-06-10(Sat)14:40:58 No.183

<3 ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-10(Sat)15:36:53 No.184

Goodnight sweet prince ~~Anonymous 2023-06-11(Sun)22:06:10 No.189

Once upon a time there were many web sites like this. I had one myself dedicated to OekakiBBS digimon fanart. Yours is more polished of course but back then it would have been just another drop in the ocean. And now? Now it's a special treat to stumble upon something like this. Like shaking friends with an old hand. Salutations among ghosts in the machine! ~~Anonymous 2023-06-11(Sun)04:17:15 No.185

How right you are. As for me, I just wanted a place I could call my own. Cheers, friend. ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-11(Sun)15:07:56 No.188

See you at https://picochan.pw/ ! ~~Anonymous 2023-06-11(Sun)10:44:56 No.186

A shill! Are you the admin? Heh, you greatly overestimate how many visitors I get. Your site looks nice, anyway. ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-11(Sun)13:32:08 No.187

I found this on zzzchan. Cool to see something that's not consumed and regurgitated web 3.0 nonsense. I should make more internet treks like this in the future. ~~PLASTICTEETH 2023-06-08(Thu)04:04:40 No.181

Thank you for passing by! My site is designed to work properly in IE4 and text-based browsers. Did you find anything interesting? Now, I just have to wonder who's posting this place all over, but it's free publicity, I guess. ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-08(Thu)14:26:34 No.182

Poisoned candy myths are urban legends about malevolent strangers intentionally hiding poisons, drugs, or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distributing the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating. These stories serve as modern cautionary tales to children and parents and repeat two themes that are common in urban legends: danger to children and contamination of food. No cases of strangers killing or permanently injuring children this way have been proven. ~~Wikipedia-Man 2023-06-05(Mon)16:49:52 No.178

Has it really never happened? It sounds very easy to do, and there are a lot of crazy people around willing to hurt children for a laugh. Or are there? The world is actually not the worst it could be? ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-05(Mon)17:44:50 No.179

Ever heard of 'Mean World Syndrome'? It's a proposed cognitive bias wherein people may perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is, due to long-term moderate to heavy exposure to violence-related content in mass media. For example homicide rates have dropped to near 1950s levels,and things like rape have always been relatively rare, but people still talk about being afraid to go out at night, and such-like. (Actually, there is a theory that crime rates only increased in the '60s-80s simply because the baby boomer generation, the biggest cohort until then simply reached the 'crime-committing age'.) ~~Anonymous 2023-06-06(Tue)02:08:22 No.180

this is how I found the site ~~Anonymous 2023-05-25(Thu)16:34:20 No.172

Very interesting... this place isn't dead THOUGH ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-05-25(Thu)19:16:19 No.175

same ~~Anonymous 2023-05-30(Tue)21:47:44 No.177

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