Anyone want to script through the signup process and feed the damn thing a bunch of AI generated faces?

Typically when a signup page is difficult to automate, you can use a library meant for automated testing within a browser—like Selenium. Also, disposable emails services come in handy—like mailsac. If they block all the disposable email services, you can also use your iCloud+ custom email domain (if you have it) with the Allow All Incoming Messages setting turned on—then you use randomly generated user handles for each signup. A better way would be Gmail accounts so that they blend in more, but I’m not sure how to script through Gmail signup when they often require a phone number verification step.

Not sure about the easiest way to recycle your IP, in case they monitor signups that way too. I’m sure there’s a way to overcome that too via VPN.

If 2% of Discord users did this 50 times, that would make half of Discords user profiles and face recognition data completely fake.

Yeah. I’m a full grown adult and I don’t know shit about taxes, starting a business, marketing myself, being part of a community, … none of that, really. I feel like a lot of my recent adult life can be defined by self-teaching. Recently I’ve been teaching myself about radio technology. I’m planning on putting together some dishes/antennas to do stuff like read the GOES weather data and join the Meshtastic network.

I’ve wanted to help run a business my whole life, but never knew how to get started and still don’t. I don’t even know what I should open a business for… I could see myself doing consultancy for data engineering or analytical services, or perhaps a digital marketing gig. But again, no fucking idea what to do. I probably need to start with something small and less-risky if it fails, but everything seems like it’s high risk when your poor.

What if, it turns out, that the psychology of an entity capable of contorting as much energy in such a way is also a psychology that would not do so? Say, because to learn as much about the universe, as to be able to treat it by blowing up its stars, you must understand the universe in a way that would reliably demotivate any such action?

Stars blow themselves up without our intervention all the time. All we need to do is wait, which we seem okay at already…

We do a lot of dick swinging these days, via the convenience of being able to redefine so easily what counts as progress. Is capital growth progress? Is extending the average life expectancy progress? Is exhaustive levels of individualism progress? Is being able to fuck kids on a private island, while none of the poor people know about it, progress? Is being able to kill a large animal progress?

I don’t think any one of those should necessarily count as progress. Especially not the one involving kids, though that seems to be in opposition to what our billionaire class believes.

Progress comes relative to a shared value system. The world’s leading economic and military superpower does not really have a shared value system anymore. That makes none of them capable of any meaningful progress, unless they find a way to come together as one. That’s going to be hard when your billionaire class controls your media platforms. Would you call that control they wield “progress?”

Isn’t it weird that the story given to you by your successors would have you believe that your successors are in some way more worthy than you?

Pretty sure I saw this one before… something something, wunderwaffen technology.

They’re narrative opportunists. They seek out ways to dilute the information sphere, because that weakens the effectiveness of any productive conversation overall.

• Did cigarettes give you cancer, or could it have been asbestos from an old house?
• Did greenhouse gases cause global warming, or is it cold outside right now and that means everyone except you is an idiot?
• Are we setting up a surveillance state, or do we just want infrastructure to help you find your lost dog one day?
• …

Truth becomes arbitrary, opinionated, prone to interpretation… how can society continue to operate when they can’t agree on anything? When the ball isn’t in the court of institutional knowledge, it’s free of the taking by whoever wants to construct narrative in their favor.

Check out what percent of psychology studies these days can actually be reproduced via peer review.