@aescling in the original sense of the term
stone is an antonym for “pillow princess”, someone who likes giving sex but not receiving (or not receiving as much), in lesbian communities, hence “stone butch” and “stone femme”
subsequently it has been used as an intensifier of butchiness without regard to sexual practice
@alienghic@octodon.social i would argue that one core aspect of what most people think of as “social media” is commodification of social interaction / behaviours as something to be consumed, or a mode of consumption, rather than something to participate in. i think this is what separates social media from blogs (where the thing being consumed / method of consumption is not as social in nature) and forums/mailing lists/chat rooms (which are designed as participatory systems, although the presence of “lurkers” muddles this definition somewhat).
i do think this is inherently problematic to some extent? i don’t think Mastodon, for example, has freed itself from the problems of conflating social participatory culture with content consumption simply because it doesn’t show ads.
however, i think the problem becomes much worse when that consumption becomes linked into a capitalistic framework.
consider whether the people you look to for safeguarding the web are involved in the cultural heritage sector
(“et” is latin for “and”, which is represented in symbolic logic as ∧. “vel” is latin for “or”, which is represented in symbolic logic as ∨.)
@noelle i appreciate this joke
@noelle because humans are a storytelling species?
@xnx38h @astraluma my understanding is that many americans correlate financial success and spiritual goodness for [long history of strange interpretations of Christianity] reasons, and also do not want to think of themselves as spiritually bankrupt
so belief in a deservingness of material wealth follows from that somewhat naturally, as does excusing the transgressions of the wealthy
@noelle it seems like a broken system where the authors are forced to respond to such a complaint, and/or where scapegoating one’s claims on others makes a valid defence (i would respond to that response “well, you should have picked a better source, then”)
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