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okay not to ruin the joke by explaining it but people in the notes are legitimately confused. “ok some of this is bad but XYZ is just goofy little jokes!!?”. yeah that’s what’s happening here. she’s dramatizing how a steady algorithmic feed of misogyny radicalizes people.
it’s silly jokes, it’s Not That Deep, and then it’s jolly good-natured lifestyle content, and then it’s deeply ugly reactionary conspiracy theories, but it’s all so light and quick and it just flows effortlessly over you once you’re in the pipeline. and it all sounds equally friendly and approachable in tone, and maybe the first time you hear something it sounds a little wrong or not quite what you believe, but the next thing is fine and the next few things are just jokes.
until suddenly this is just where you live. this is what the world sounds like hour after hour. this is what the normalization of reactionary fascist ideas sounds like in action.
moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.
[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]
the BEST THING about America is that one of their timezones is called mountain time. i cannot tell you how funny that is to me. it sure is always time for mountains in one fourth of america
