I contaminated my father's YouTube algorithm that was full of conspiracy theory videos with Lenin videos
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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And how did you contaminate someone else's feed? Genuinely curious.
The YouTube algorithm is infamously easy to poison. Even just watching one video about a subject is enough to unleash a cascade of slop.
When he was sleeping, I logged in with his Youtube account in another device (I manage his password and 2FA, he's an old man) and let Youtube play a lot of Lenin videos for hours
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I do think the behavior of the system definitely suggests central management instead of any, like, uncoordinated class interest behavior. But at the end of the day, if you fix the structural problems, it doesn't even matter.
The central management is the government which largely acts as the management committee to resolve disputes between large capitalists.
Not quite what I mean. The way that control is orchestrated between the whole apparatus for the moves of the machine to function synchronously (media support of wars, wars happening in a way that benefits the largest companies, etc.).
For example, the way that even CNN seems to just be reading from a script re: manufacturing consent for the Palestinian genocide. It's beyond something like "they'll lose their White House press credentials if they don't play nice".
For sure, there is a lot of coordination happening. We can see some of that revealed with the usaid debacle where it turned out that a lot of "independent" media was actually state funded.
God, Hunter S. Thompson looked different without his hat and sunglasses.
Is the picture of Lenin from any documentary?
You look for the person who will benefit...And, uh...You know, you'll, uh...You know what I mean.
For anyone interested, it's referencing the Lenin quote relevant to this thread:
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Champions of reforms and improvements will always be fooled by the defenders of the old order until they realise that every old institution, how ever barbarous and rotten it may appear to be, is kept going by the forces of certain ruling classes. And there is only one way of smashing the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the very society which surrounds us, the forces which can—and, owing to their social position, must—constitute the power capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new, and to enlighten and organise those forces for the struggle.
Is that a reference to the source of the image?
It's a quote from The Big Lebowski
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