PicoBlaanket

Here are some good examples from the article:

• In 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” (F+F8), rapper and actor Ludacris reads a 30-word seeming-advertisement hyping Textron Systems’ remote-operated Ripsaw tank. It turns out Ludacris’ lines were written not by a scriptwriter, but by the Entertainment Liaison Office (the DOD). The scene effectively became an unskippable ad, brought to the viewer by the U.S. military.

• …In the 2017 film “The Long Road Home”… in one scene, a military colonel claims that the 2004 Sadr City operation during the Iraq War, which resulted in the deaths of 22 servicemen and 940 Iraqis, was necessary to rid two million Iraqis from the oppression of a dictator and to provide them with a “better future.” That claim ignores the series of false narratives — like the existence of WMD or Iraq’s purported ties to al-Qaida — that got U.S. boots on Iraqi soil in the first place.

• …The second season of “Jack Ryan” has lovable Jim from “The Office” working through the CIA to topple a nuclear-armed Venezuelan dictator in hopes of installing a magnanimous liberal populist. The season aired around the same time Washington was parading Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s new leader.

• …For “Mission Impossible 7”: The Defense Department loaned a Boeing-made V-22 Osprey for use in at least two scenes in which the aircraft would be filmed both internally and externally. The Osprey, known as the “widowmaker,” is a $120 billion disaster that is one accident away from being decommissioned, as it has already caused the deaths of 62 service members.

• According to Stahl, these scenes are intentionally designed to “forge an emotional connection between the viewer and the weapon systems.” A connection that could ease the blow in a scenario where the viewer realizes how useless and expensive the F-35, Osprey and other systems like the LCS program have turned out to be. This serves to “normalize these huge expenditures,” he added.

• While American people focus on state subsidies and welfare programs, they are “oblivious to the costs of our militaristic engagement with the world” — a cost that was briefly summarized at the end of the documentary as reaching $8 trillion in the period after 9/11 alone.

Imagine how much we could improve the world with that $8 trillion.

Yeah, I understand what you mean (after a year of exploring the Web Socket).

That lemmy auth value is pulled from a JWT cookie in the browser - which you can access in JS by document.cookie. It allows user-specific API calls (retrieving saved posts, subscribed communities, etc).

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you’d like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.

You can see all open feature-requests and bugs in the memmy github repo.

In some cases, you can read dev comments about fixing that issue.

It’s fun to run test builds - and I love when a new version is ready.

And the new text-size slider is most excellent.

“OP made it opt-in”

1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…

So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.

OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.

2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):

• “if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it”

• “only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”

…so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.

“a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”

Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:

• you, who wouldn’t use it
• me, who doesn’t want it
• Otome, who doesn’t like it

I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.

Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…

a chance to make a new culture…

maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.

1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:

• a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).

• a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

That’s why I’m saying the haiku bot is junk.

2 - In this very post, when Otome said “I never liked the Haiku Bot”… OP responded “I’ve never liked them much either”…

so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”

I’m asking you - what value do YOU think this Haiku bot adds?

You did not answer the question… I asked you:

How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?

It’s basically the same as the “all numbers in your post add up to 69” bot.

Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?

It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…

• and then duplicates a comment (spam),
• and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).

If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?

Here’s a human haiku:

bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

Yeah lemmy is a chill place.

It is wild to watch the rapid expansion.