#the Internet

[gwydionmisha]

11/30/23: KOSA is an anti-LGBTQIA+ censorship bill. It is essential you call THIS week. Tell them you are specifically against KOSA and especially against hotlining the bill.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at [phone] and ask to be connected to the Senator of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

#The Internet #KOSA #Censorship #Resist

[genuinenoprize]

To anyone concerned about KOSA and the state of the web

My wife, @utopicwork, is working hard on a "next internet" with the primary goal of being a place where marginalized people can safely and privately communicate without being restricted by the whims of advertising algorithms and malicious bills.

This would be a decentralized peer-to-peer network, which means

A) it won't be easily shut down

B) it's built around the best aspect of tumblr: being able to choose who you do and don't connect to

She is a highly qualified computer scientist with years of experience in cybersecurity, web development and network technology. However, she can't do this alone. A trans woman is fighting hard for the future of free communication so please support her.

#hammer car explosion #kosa bill #trans issues #trans woman #social media #the internet

[veryluckyclovers]

he’s looking at the structural coloration wikipedia page

#my art #doodle #drawing #art #dog #silly art #cute art #procreate #internet #the internet

[kekwcomics]

PizzaNet (Santa Cruz, 1994).

The first thing you could order online was pizza from a Pizza Hut branch in Santa Cruz.

#pizza #pizza delivery #pizza hut #microsoft #computers #computer #retro computers #retro computing #vintage tech #internet #the internet #website #software #websites #90s #90s aesthetic #1990s #1990s aesthetic #1990s computers #90s computers

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #internet #the internet #polls about the internet #submitted nov 6

[blumineck]

Thanks for paying attention!

I know this is very tiktok, but I thought some of y'all would appreciate this (and it applies here too! 😉)

#archery #nerd #fantasy #the internet #engagement

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Sound on. Trust me.

#the internet #troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #video

[fatmagic]

#the internet #gif

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

I can't believe I currently get to experience first hand the cultural phenomena of migration in between apps like do you realize this is migration in the most literal sense happening Online in between made up platforms and real found communites it's a dialect exchange it is essentially just wires and invisible rays that are moving and technically they aren't moving as much as they are just,,, becoming absent and present simultaneously this is unreal because what this means is that a netnographic research could probably be conducted but it also seems unserious enough to the Research Scholars to not seriously look into but this is so fucking interesting and cool and I just wish to be able to express how deeply enthralled I am with it

#twitter #reddit #196 #idk how to tag this #migration #anthropology #the internet #my gays and baes

[akiransh]

#the internet #journal #old web

[jimmy-dipthong]

How long will the japanese wikipedia article for goncharov last?

And how big is the internet, really?

I was in a wikipedia hole recently and I happened to notice that the Japanese article for Goncharov is the only language variant that is completely in-character.

Every other language specifies it as “Goncharov (meme)”. Japanese lists it as “Goncharov (1973 film)”, and formats the introduction as if it were a real movie:

Goncharov is a 1973 mafia film set in Naples, Italy. Produced by Martin Scorsese, the main cast includes Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, John Cazale, Gene Hackman, Cybill Shepherd, and Harvey Keitel.

— Wikipedia (my translation)

The rest of the article does go on to acknowledge Tumblr’s influence in Goncharov’s popularity, but every mention of this influence frames it as reviving the popularity of the supposedly real film. On two occasions the word 再燃 is used (the first kanji means “again” and the second kanji means “burn” - it means “rekindle” and can be similarly used in the metaphorical and literal sense, just like the english word “rekindle”).

Goncharov became particularly popularity on social media as a result of a reblog of a Tumblr post in August 2020. The post depicted shows the title of the film (Goncharov) in place of a brand logo on a shoe, which were described as “knockoff boots”. The image post and the comment attached to the reblog, mocking the fact that the original poster had not seen the film, became an internet meme. In November 2022, a poster made by a fan of Goncharov was uploaded to the internet, and the film’s popularity resurged. Various fan-made content about the story and production began to spread on Tumblr and other platforms. Goncharov has been widely covered in the media as an example of how fandom is born on the internet, with many prominent figures, including Scorsese himself, leaving comments.

— Wikipedia (my translation)

It’s clear the article is trying to adapt the real history of the meme and incorporate it as much as possible into the fictional history of the film. The rest follows quite similarly, and includes more analysis of how Tumblr culture created the “reignited” popularity, how Elon’s acquisition of Twitter resulted in an exodus of users to Tumblr which may have contributed to the increased awareness of the “movie”, etc. Though most of it is directly translated from the english, enough of it is original (such as the attempts to reconcile both real and fictional histories) that I suspect the article’s current state is intentional.

To get back to my initial question, how long will this article last like this?

Remember the whole Scots Wikipedia debacle? An american teenager had basically used simple word replacement to translate over 23,000 articles into Scots. Some people noticed this, but not many, and not loudly enough. It was only after a well researched reddit post pointed out the scale of the damage that people really took notice and action was taken. The wikipedia editor had apparently been doing this for 7 years before the reddit post was made.

If 20,000 articles could go largely unnoticed for 7 years, I imagine a single article could easily evade similar detection. Realistically, how many Japanese speakers are going to even hear about Goncharov and make it to the wikipedia article? Then, how many of them are going to do more googling and find out it’s all a hoax (or know already)? THEN, how many of them are going to tell a wikipedia admin that the article is a lie, or publicise it somehow in a way that forces the editors to update the article?

I think the reality is that although the internet may appear to be a massive open town square (or several), it also has side streets, and side streets of side streets. I feel like the number of active members in each online hobby or interest group are really quite small, and then they get divided between platforms, and even further divided into subgroups. I think if one decided it was something one wanted to do, it would be quite easy to become one of the most prevalent members of any online community you chose just by devoting the time and energy to it.

It’s also kind of shocking how much internet content is inaccessible on account of it being in a different language. English reigns supreme in terms of sheer volume, but there is original research and journalism and entertainment and art in every language, that hasn’t and might never be translated into english. For example, I found it very difficult to find any english sources or research for my post about the evolving conjugation of 違う, but I easily found several japanese papers and websites. In fact, if you google “違くない adjective or verb”, the first english result that doesn’t just handwave it as “informal” or “slang” is a tumblr blog with my post on it!

It’s a small internet indeed where my little hobby language blog is, according to google, the prevailing english source on what is quite a remarkable change in Japanese grammar that’s been happening since the 80s.

I think the Japanese unreality version of the Goncharov wikipedia article will stand for many years to come.

(below link shows the article at time of writing)

#langblr #japanese #japanese language #language #goncharov #the internet #long post #essay #日本語 #jimmy blogthong

[seancurry1]

The problem with the previous ~10 years of the internet, an era defined by algorithmic social media feeds and endless growth, isn’t that the platforms have all my friends and their updates locked up in their walled gardens, although that’s certainly part of it. Nor is the problem that they’re all trying to make money, although that’s definitely part of it.*

The problem isn’t even the Nazis, white nationalists, Chris Rufos, TERFs, and all other manners of asshole that barge into spaces created and populated by well-meaning people, shit on the floor, and yell at everyone who asks them to clean it up and not do it again.

The problem is that the people in charge of those spaces won’t stop them from coming back.

What do you do when a party host won’t kick out the wild drunk that’s ruining the party? You find a new party. What do you do when the wild drunk shows up again and your new host also won’t kick them out? What do you do when this happens again, and again, and again?

What do you do when every single party you’ve been going to for the last decade keeps having the same wild drunk show up and shit on the floor?

I wrote about how the internet has changed, and how it’s changing again, over on my blog. Check it out!

#writing #the internet #decentralization #platform churn #newsletter

[gen-z-superheroes]

"Stopncii.org is a free tool designed to support victims of Non-Consensual Intimate Image (NCII) abuse."

"Revenge Porn Helpline is a UK service supporting adults (aged 18+) who are experiencing intimate image abuse, also known as, revenge porn."

"Take It Down (ncmec.org) is for people who have images or videos of themselves nude, partially nude, or in sexually explicit situations taken when they were under the age of 18 that they believe have been or will be shared online."

#important information #image desc in alt text #informative #stop ai #anti ai #safety #internet safety #exploitation #tell your friends #stay informed #the internet #internet privacy #online safety #stay safe #important #openai #tiktok screenshots #tiktok #life tips #ysk #you should know #described #alt text #alt text provided #alt text added #alt text in image #alt text described #alt text included #id in alt text

[subdee]

The 80,000 warnings about the ao3 spambots on here are making me realize... do people on tumblr not know what an SEO scam is??????

Everyone warning each other to not click on the links... I mean yes this is just good internet advice, don’t click random spammy links, but if the point was trick you into clicking they would be doing a better job of pretending not to be bots, don’t you think?

The purpose of these comments is SEO optimization... just trying to increase their pagerank in search results on Google or Bing by making a lot of different pages link to them.  

These aren’t a big deal if they hit the accounts of active writers, who have plenty of tools to get rid of them.  The game is to hit the accounts of writers who aren’t  checking their emails, and won’t bother to log in / mark as spam.  Then the comments stay up and help with getting their links on early pages of search results or making them look more legitimate. 

Anyway here’s something for the AO3 engineering team to do - figure out where these bots are coming from and block the domain.  Since ao3 is mostly volunteer labor we just wait until someone’s free to work on it or the board votes to pay for it, though. 

#really sorry to be the 80001 person to comment on this #to me this is all obvious #because it's happened like... three times before #on livejournal then dreamwidth then my personal wordpress page #the internet #ao3

[sparksinthenight]

My letter to Biden about KOSA

You can use the following letter as a template to send to your representatives. Or you can write your own letter.

Dear President Biden,

My name is ______ and I am a ______ in _____. I am writing to you to ask that you please oppose the Kids Online “Safety” Act. This act harms children, especially queer or abused children , and allows children to be indoctrinated into their parents’ worldviews.

Children, especially teenagers, deserve the freedom of the current internet. They deserve to listen to many different viewpoints, to hear the stories of many different people, to learn about many different experiences. They deserve to meet many different people and learn from them. They deserve to interact with many different forms of art expressing many different viewpoints. This allows them to form their own ideas and opinions about the world and become their own people. It broadens their horizons and makes them more open minded.

If parents are given control over what children learn about on the internet, then many parents will ensure that their children are not exposed to any views that contradict their own.

This will make it so that future generations can no longer learn more than and become better than older generations. The only thing making our society progress is younger generations learning more and becoming more accepting than older generations.

LGBT+ children under KOSA will often be stopped from accessing resources that help them learn that being LGBT+ is okay. Many children won’t be able to go against their parents’ homophobia and learn to love themselves. This will lead to many mental illnesses and suicides.

Also, abused children often go to the internet to access resources that teach them that what is happening to them is bad and they deserve better, and to access resources that help them escape. Their parents of course will not allow them to access these resources under KOSA.

Thank you for reading my letter and please take my concerns to heart.

Sincerely,

#stop kosa #kosa #kids online safety act #child rights #lgbt rights #lgbt+ characters #lgbtq rights #lgbtq+ rights #lgbtqia rights #lgbtqia+ rights #child abuse #the internet #internet #children’s rights #kids’ rights #youth rights #youth liberation

[danielhowell]

NEW VIDEO - Dan’s Grandma Explains the Internet

#daniel howell #dan howell #grandma #the internet #sussy #Youtube