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The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline (www.workingclassicists.com)

submitted 2 months ago by sculd to c/technology

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A good article in which the author researched how Twitter's algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content.

Quote: "Adhering to my guidelines to follow accounts suggested by the algorithm, I clicked the “follow” button. This was the first time I was recommended content adjacent to alt-right and "manosphere" ideology. Prior to that, it was all history related. After “liking” approximately 100 Tweets, however, I saw that the accounts suggested to me were becoming increasingly political, and I was specifically being recommended accounts run by internet political commentators – as opposed to professional politicians or journalists. I cannot definitively call this observation evidence of being led down an alt-right pipeline, but it was interesting to note that those were the types of accounts suggested to me by the Twitter algorithm."

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What if you live in Europe, though? I like our classical architecture, and I saw a post advocating for different countries to go back to their historical architecture instead of big plain concrete and glass boxes

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

There is no such thing as "our classical architecture". Who is we? Where are you actually from? Italy, Greece, Sweden, Iceland?

Europe is a large and varied "continent" (not even). Architecture comes from all over the world including the middle east, africa, and beyond. These phony constructs like "european classical architecture" are just white supremacy with another name.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

United Kingdom. Getting called a white supremacist for liking architecture really is something

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

Are you suggesting that architectural styles are not based on interactions with different peoples and that the type of architecture, for example, from 200-500CE is not going to vary greatly in different regions such as East Asia and Europe? And that those peoples with individual cultures and ideas about architecture won't ever interact with their neighbors, creating cross-cultural styles? That these cultures will never interact and reach a quorum on specific styles of buildings, especially when brought together through larger institutions such as religion?

[–] DdCno1 6 points 2 months ago

I hope you are merely trolling.

[–] sculd 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Classical architecture is an extremely broad term.

Are you talking about Greece or Roman architecture? Gothic? Byzantine? Renaissance? Baroque?

Even when you talk about "European" there are a variety of styles among different countries.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Victorian 😎