I genuinely hate X (formerly Twitter)

[Sword of the Lord]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

 

[fide]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

I have another idea. Trust God. He knows very well how to deal with plagues on His Creation including humanity. That's step 1. Step 2: Follow Him. Follow the Son. One part of following Him is to do what He says, which includes a very relevant specific order: Do not let your heart be troubled. This, with a bit more context and in the plural to include us all in the matter:

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

St. Charbel, the man portrayed in my member-icon, wrote, "The world never gives to you, but always puts you in debt. God alone gives."

Yes Jesus gives differently. His peace does not soothe the nervous chaos of the world, which is outside of us unless we let it in. But HIs peace is given within, if we welcome it and guard it, and live it righteously when and how it is right to do so.

 

[AlexB23]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

Solution: Delete X.

If you want to follow pedo catchers, there are plenty of YouTube channels and Facebook groups that catch criminals as well. For general crime stopping, I watch Code Blue Cam, Midwest Safety and Donny Rapture.

 

[mourningdove~]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

If Harris wins the election, I doubt you'll have X around to bother you much longer ...

 

[Michie]

If Harris wins the election, I doubt you'll have X around to bother you much longer ...

Is there talk of her getting rid of it?

 

[mourningdove~]

Is there talk of her getting rid of it?

It's a Democrat thing, to shut down free speech ...
but especially the speech of those on the 'right'.

Stories like this one (below) continue to pop up in the news:

https://thehill.com/policy/4917812-clinton-social-media-safety-regulations/

 

[Gnarwhal]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

Yeah I just checked all my usual news sources as well (from Daily Caller to WND) and I can't find anything, so far all of Israel's strikes have been focused on Lebanon. Elon's liberation of Twitter has been bitter sweet, because obviously with free speech comes a lot of irritating things like fake news, porn bots, and an abundance of trolls.

I do so so so miss the pre-social media days of the internet, when it was pure(r) information. When there were like 30 search engines of nearly equal weight to choose from and algorithms weren't manipulating and prioritizing information.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

Hating X is a sign of sanity.

It full of NAZIs and NAZI wannabes and hate and about 2/3 of it bots.

Try threads, your pedo hunters are probably already on it.

X isn't long for this world as it is.

 

[RileyG]

I have it to specifically follow a group of pedophile catchers I watch bust the worst of the worst and get them off the streets. I woke up bright and early because I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at my phone out of habit and saw a lot of X alerts about Israel dropping some kind of super sonic mega bombs on Iran overnight/this morning/today (whatever time it is over there) and WW3 having ignited. Searched high and low and found nothing on the actual news about this. Period. But now I can't go back to sleep because my stress response kicked in. Can we go back 25 years and electro shock social media out of the minds of everyone who was thinking it up? What a plague on humanity.

I've deleted it years ago and no longer use it.

I find it a waste of time.

 

[RileyG]

Hating X is a sign of sanity.

It full of NAZIs and NAZI wannabes and hate and about 2/3 of it bots.

Try threads, your pedo hunters are probably already on it.

X isn't long for this world as it is.

Well said, sir.

 

[mourningdove~]

If Harris wins the election, I doubt you'll have X around to bother you much longer ...

Tucker Carlson interviewed Elon Musk (owner of X) after the Trump rally in Butler on Saturday.
This is what Elon had to say about his future, if Trump loses the election:

Elon Musk tells Tucker Carlson he's f***ed if Trump loses election

Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson that if Kamala Harris wins the election, 'I'm f***ed' and predicts the vice president will send him to prison.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[The Liturgist]

Solution: Delete X.

If you want to follow pedo catchers, there are plenty of YouTube channels and Facebook groups that catch criminals as well. For general crime stopping, I watch Code Blue Cam, Midwest Safety and Donny Rapture.

I don’t think one should enable alerts from most “social media” on one’s main productivity devices, especially the phone (or in my case, my ipads).* I make a point of keeping my phone and other critical devicss as distraction-free as possible.

I would also note, pedantically perhaps, that what the mass media indoctrinated people in the late 2000s to refer to as “social networking” or “social media” in the sense of discussion platforms like X date back both to the early Internet in the form of various chat systems that ran on the ITS and WAITS timesharing systems on Digitial PDP-10 36 bit mainframes (some would argue they are minicomputers, but these were massive machines, some would argue they are midrange computers, and perhaps in the same sense one might call a top of the line IBM POWER or the Sun / Fujitsu UltraSPARC M9000 with its dual-cabinet construction, the same size as the contemporary more expensive IBM system Z mainframes, sure), which themselves were as much online communities as a modern forum (or as a dial-up Bulletin Board System in the 80s and 90s).

Speaking of dial-up, there was also Usenet, which originated apart from the Internet as it was initially something that could propagate updates using the rather nasty Unix to Unix Copy Protocol over a dial-up or leased line modem connection, however, after Berkeley developed a TCP/IP stack for UNIX and other improvements like the full screen text editor, Usenet became something primarily accessed by universities and other institutes that had a direct connection to the early Internet in those days when commercial use of it was still prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy (these restrictions were phased out starting in 1993, and I was fortunate to gain access in 1992 just before the onset of what is nicknamed by oldtimers like me “Eternal September”, in my case, between reminiscing about how good it was using classic UNIX on a Vax or Alpha system and shouting at node.js and Kubernetes developers to GET OFF MY LAWN!

* The exception to this, and this might sound shocking from someone who has just expressed nostalgia for the era of interactive timesharing and the big iron of computer science departments nearly 35 years ago, would be certain systems I use for conversations with close friends, which in my case oddly enough includes Discord, which for me has taken the role previously occupied by systems like IRC and instant messaging.

 

[RDKirk]

I don’t think one should enable alerts from most “social media” on one’s main productivity devices, especially the phone (or in my case, my ipads).* I make a point of keeping my phone and other critical devicss as distraction-free as possible.

I would also note, pedantically perhaps, that what the mass media indoctrinated people in the late 2000s to refer to as “social networking” or “social media” in the sense of discussion platforms like X date back both to the early Internet in the form of various chat systems that ran on the ITS and WAITS timesharing systems on Digitial PDP-10 36 bit mainframes (some would argue they are minicomputers, but these were massive machines, some would argue they are midrange computers, and perhaps in the same sense one might call a top of the line IBM POWER or the Sun / Fujitsu UltraSPARC M9000 with its dual-cabinet construction, the same size as the contemporary more expensive IBM system Z mainframes, sure), which themselves were as much online communities as a modern forum (or as a dial-up Bulletin Board System in the 80s and 90s).

Speaking of dial-up, there was also Usenet, which originated apart from the Internet as it was initially something that could propagate updates using the rather nasty Unix to Unix Copy Protocol over a dial-up or leased line modem connection, however, after Berkeley developed a TCP/IP stack for UNIX and other improvements like the full screen text editor, Usenet became something primarily accessed by universities and other institutes that had a direct connection to the early Internet in those days when commercial use of it was still prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy (these restrictions were phased out starting in 1993, and I was fortunate to gain access in 1992 just before the onset of what is nicknamed by oldtimers like me “Eternal September”, in my case, between reminiscing about how good it was using classic UNIX on a Vax or Alpha system and shouting at node.js and Kubernetes developers to GET OFF MY LAWN!

* The exception to this, and this might sound shocking from someone who has just expressed nostalgia for the era of interactive timesharing and the big iron of computer science departments nearly 35 years ago, would be certain systems I use for conversations with close friends, which in my case oddly enough includes Discord, which for me has taken the role previously occupied by systems like IRC and instant messaging.

 

[AlexB23]

I don’t think one should enable alerts from most “social media” on one’s main productivity devices, especially the phone (or in my case, my ipads).* I make a point of keeping my phone and other critical devicss as distraction-free as possible.

I would also note, pedantically perhaps, that what the mass media indoctrinated people in the late 2000s to refer to as “social networking” or “social media” in the sense of discussion platforms like X date back both to the early Internet in the form of various chat systems that ran on the ITS and WAITS timesharing systems on Digitial PDP-10 36 bit mainframes (some would argue they are minicomputers, but these were massive machines, some would argue they are midrange computers, and perhaps in the same sense one might call a top of the line IBM POWER or the Sun / Fujitsu UltraSPARC M9000 with its dual-cabinet construction, the same size as the contemporary more expensive IBM system Z mainframes, sure), which themselves were as much online communities as a modern forum (or as a dial-up Bulletin Board System in the 80s and 90s).

Speaking of dial-up, there was also Usenet, which originated apart from the Internet as it was initially something that could propagate updates using the rather nasty Unix to Unix Copy Protocol over a dial-up or leased line modem connection, however, after Berkeley developed a TCP/IP stack for UNIX and other improvements like the full screen text editor, Usenet became something primarily accessed by universities and other institutes that had a direct connection to the early Internet in those days when commercial use of it was still prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy (these restrictions were phased out starting in 1993, and I was fortunate to gain access in 1992 just before the onset of what is nicknamed by oldtimers like me “Eternal September”, in my case, between reminiscing about how good it was using classic UNIX on a Vax or Alpha system and shouting at node.js and Kubernetes developers to GET OFF MY LAWN!

* The exception to this, and this might sound shocking from someone who has just expressed nostalgia for the era of interactive timesharing and the big iron of computer science departments nearly 35 years ago, would be certain systems I use for conversations with close friends, which in my case oddly enough includes Discord, which for me has taken the role previously occupied by systems like IRC and instant messaging.

Dang, long essay bro. I like tech, and mainframe computers, but this is a little long for a post. I'd be willing to read this in the tech section of the forum.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

I don’t think one should enable alerts from most “social media” on one’s main productivity devices, especially the phone (or in my case, my ipads).* I make a point of keeping my phone and other critical devicss as distraction-free as possible.

I would also note, pedantically perhaps, that what the mass media indoctrinated people in the late 2000s to refer to as “social networking” or “social media” in the sense of discussion platforms like X date back both to the early Internet in the form of various chat systems that ran on the ITS and WAITS timesharing systems on Digitial PDP-10 36 bit mainframes (some would argue they are minicomputers, but these were massive machines, some would argue they are midrange computers, and perhaps in the same sense one might call a top of the line IBM POWER or the Sun / Fujitsu UltraSPARC M9000 with its dual-cabinet construction, the same size as the contemporary more expensive IBM system Z mainframes, sure), which themselves were as much online communities as a modern forum (or as a dial-up Bulletin Board System in the 80s and 90s).

Speaking of dial-up, there was also Usenet, which originated apart from the Internet as it was initially something that could propagate updates using the rather nasty Unix to Unix Copy Protocol over a dial-up or leased line modem connection, however, after Berkeley developed a TCP/IP stack for UNIX and other improvements like the full screen text editor, Usenet became something primarily accessed by universities and other institutes that had a direct connection to the early Internet in those days when commercial use of it was still prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy (these restrictions were phased out starting in 1993, and I was fortunate to gain access in 1992 just before the onset of what is nicknamed by oldtimers like me “Eternal September”, in my case, between reminiscing about how good it was using classic UNIX on a Vax or Alpha system and shouting at node.js and Kubernetes developers to GET OFF MY LAWN!

* The exception to this, and this might sound shocking from someone who has just expressed nostalgia for the era of interactive timesharing and the big iron of computer science departments nearly 35 years ago, would be certain systems I use for conversations with close friends, which in my case oddly enough includes Discord, which for me has taken the role previously occupied by systems like IRC and instant messaging.

I wanna believe, out of simple Christian respect, that you're a real person, but man this reads like AI babble.

 

[The Liturgist]

I wanna believe, out of simple Christian respect, that you're a real person, but man this reads like AI babble.

Every word of that I typed, by hand. If you read through my posts on ChristianForums, you will know they are long, and they predate the availability of AI, and about half the time they constitute a rebuttal of some anti-Catholic sentiment.

Also I like to think, and this is admittedly a conceit, but one that I hold dear to anyway, that my literary style is, if not superior to that of ChatGPT, then at the very least, more authentic by way of its marked idiosyncrasies . ChatGPT and the other AIs tend to have, shall we say, a distinct literary style, which in the case of ChatGPT especially comes across as rather too enthusiastic and helpful. “Sure, I can help you with that…”

At any rate, you can rest assured I am a human, a Christian, and as I noted before, and most Roman Catholic participants in the general forum know, such as my dear friend @chevyontheriver an ally of your church - I spend about half my time on ChristianForums.com responding to attacks against the Roman Catholic Church, both because I love your church and know it to have valid sacraments, and also, the vast majority of attacks against your church apply to the Orthodox as well.

 

[RDKirk]

Every word of that I typed, by hand. If you read through my posts on ChristianForums, you will know they are long, and they predate the availability of AI, and about half the time they constitute a rebuttal of some anti-Catholic sentiment.

Also I like to think, and this is admittedly a conceit, but one that I hold dear to anyway, that my literary style is, if not superior to that of ChatGPT, then at the very least, more authentic by way of its marked idiosyncrasies . ChatGPT and the other AIs tend to have, shall we say, a distinct literary style, which in the case of ChatGPT especially comes across as rather too enthusiastic and helpful. “Sure, I can help you with that…”

At any rate, you can rest assured I am a human, a Christian, and as I noted before, and most Roman Catholic participants in the general forum know, such as my dear friend @chevyontheriver an ally of your church - I spend about half my time on ChristianForums.com responding to attacks against the Roman Catholic Church, both because I love your church and know it to have valid sacraments, and also, the vast majority of attacks against your church apply to the Orthodox as well.

There's a guy I've been friends with since the 70s, a journalist (according to Wikipedia, he's the "father of Internet journlism") who fed a large volume of work into ChatGPT so that it knows his style and can write in imitation of his style.

 

[RileyG]

There's a guy I've been friends with since the 70s, a journalist (according to Wikipedia, he's the "father of Internet journlism") who fed a large volume of work into ChatGPT so that it knows his style and can write in imitation of his style.

That’s fascinating

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I recall when social media platforms would come, become passe, then disappear.

Then all of a sudden all of these corporate versions started popping up, and didn't disappear.

The reason there are social media platforms is because people use them.

 

[RDKirk]

I recall when social media platforms would come, become passe, then disappear.

Then all of a sudden all of these corporate versions started popping up, and didn't disappear.

The reason there are social media platforms is because people use them.

It also helped that they used data collected by casinos to learn how to addict people to them.