Olives @olives@qoto.org

"blasting into the ether"
Perhaps, a better way of putting it is that it's a lot like treating articles like shells in a barrel. They are fired off and not revisited. And then, they move onto firing more shots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost It's almost like an extreme version of this.

Unfortunately, this style of "journalism" has created the impression that this is how journalism is done, and you get copycat blogs like "404" (Vice inspired) which similarly blast content into the ether.

I've seen people rely on a couple of articles from the Vice Blog, but it's important to remember that they did not retract articles (or corrected them shortly after posting them), and they primarily shared current affairs without a lot of curation.

This is one reason why I don't use them as a source (although, I think Vice has gone bankrupt more recently).

There was a time when Salon published an article, Vice responded by publishing a similar article, Salon retracted the article for falling afoul of their editorial standards, and Vice just left it up.

"404". Vice News (the website, they used to be more honest by stating that it was a blog). Substack.

There are times when something is branded as "news" but is really a blog.

AI. Artificial Idiot.

Notice that Alice: Madness Returns was released over a decade ago and it has abruptly been banned.

Sometimes, it's better to just post something than to spend a lot of time fiddling with it.

Kamala isn't what I'd call good but the other guy (and the people around him) are worse.

This isn't the main point of the post though, so I don't comment on that specifically. I think it's kind of common sense though.

Obviously, anti stigma doesn't mean that someone doesn't have a responsibility to not behave in an abusive manner.

I'll see what other longer form content I could write (although, my time is finite).

If it's just anime, just pay for Crunchyroll or something, why pay for Netflix.

I saw someone asking for a "federated Discord". That is basically Matrix.

For potentially relevant context as to why Vice World News might have run that particular article that particular way though, in the U.K. in the 90s, there was a mass shooting where dozens of kids were massacred, and the shooter blamed being hounded by the media.

We also have to ask whether part of the media's fascination with this strange guy played a role in the rise of QAnon like ideologies (a form of far right extremism) in the U.K. The guy himself has always been an irrelevant figure but the media's reporting on him might inflate his perceived relevance.

Also, whether it's Savile or this weirdo, it felt like outlets like Vice World News would try to make these sorts of things the world's problems, despite really being British matters.

It really doesn't surprise me that there would have been people saying crazy things, however, I wouldn't even know who the guy was, if not for parts of the British media going on and on about him (even after around fifty years). And honestly, I doubt anyone else would either.