I mean ultimately language exists solely to facilitate communication. If you see someone misuse an apostrophe or whatever and make a fuss about it despite knowing what they meant, they're not the ones communicating ineffectively in that exchange - you are.

I feel like grammar policing is a bell curve kind of thing where it's only the people in the middle who think they're smarter than they are who give a shit about it

They deleted their Mastodon too. Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

Wild that people are this mad about a nice old Jewish lady who spent 2024 protesting genocide and getting arrested for it.

"Here's Lucille doing the candy corn trend! =^-^="

For what purpose

Yeah, but there's a difference between super bowl ads, which indicate that rich people want normal people to care about a thing, and normal people actually caring about a thing.

Like, nobody was becoming psychotic from talking to their NFTs or going viral posting videos of singing apes.

I mean, for that brief year or so before the whole anti-AI movement really became a thing, you were constantly seeing AI go viral. There were those AI portrait generators, that one app that let you make pictures of people into videos of them singing, the apps that gender swapped people...

At some point the left is gonna have to reckon with the fact that the average person does, in fact, think it's cool as fuck that you can type "skibidi toilet garfield lasagna" into a computer and it will spit out a photorealistic image of skibidi toilet garfield lasagna.

You could argue NFTs - at least conceptually - never even really died. Valve's games have had digital items "worth" millions of dollars for years. The difference between Valve's item economies and NFTs is that Valve's economies are attached to things that normal people actually want to engage with.

I don't think this is a very compelling argument, because NFTs and the metaverse only existed for people who thought they could extract value from them. Nobody was getting gently coaxed into having psychotic breaks by NFTs.

What the fuck man I thought Bluesky suspended them too for a second there