"Banning is harsh! Why not talk to the person instead?
The situation seems complicated, and it seems like the most logical course of action is to simply ask the person to explain what they meant. The takeaway from this article is 'Ban Bigots', not 'Ask Bigots to Expound on Their Opinion And Then Decide Whether or Not to Ban Bigots', and I’ll tell you why in four, simple words: It gets fucking exhausting."
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Don't feed the trolls, for sure.
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After watching what Grok has been doing over the last few days, they actually might have figured out how to upload Elon Musk into a computer.
So maybe he has achieved the nerd rapture.
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Sadly, I don’t know the answer to that question.
I wish we could upload their brains to a computer cause then we could pack them off like that character in the matrix and they can all pretend they’re really really important people like the way they think they should be and we can get them out of our lives.
DOJ paves the way for a legal war on fact-checking
The Justice Department says that antitrust laws should protect the “marketplace of ideas.”
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DOJ paves the way for a legal war on fact-checking
The DOJ says US antitrust law can protect “viewpoint competition” in an interest statement in a case filed by an RFK Jr.-founded group.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
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70 Küken schlüpfen aus Supermarkt-Eiern! 🐣😲 In Qingdao erlebt eine Familie eine unglaubliche Überraschung nach dem Urlaub. Natur findet immer einen Weg! 🌱🥚 #Küken #Supermarkt #Naturwunder 🤣 #lol #newz
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Flauschiger Schreck nach Urlaub: 70 Küken schlüpfen aus Eiern aus dem Supermarkt
Im chinesischen Qingdao erlebt eine Familie eine besondere Überraschung, nachdem sie aus dem Urlaub in ihre Wohnung zurückkehrt. Dutzende Küken belagern die Küche. Zwei der unverhofften Gäste dürfen sogar in ihrer neuen Heimat bleiben.n-tv NACHRICHTEN
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Constant calls to remain, that I do not shed mortal existence. Hold fast in your flesh's bindings. Do not allow those who wish your end to be victors. Fight their malignancy with your next breath.
But I do not draw breath for any part of this species but myself. I have lost interest in my human side. I do not exist for a soiled and regrettable assortment of self important simians.
I remain for that which is not human. What remains of me is not human. I find liberation in that which is alien.
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Me acabo de enterar de qué en México, libre de sarampión desde 1997, ahora hay como 2000 casos con varios chicos muertos.
Casi su totalidad se dio en el estado norteño de Chihuahua en comunidades de extremistas religiosos con estrechos vínculos con comunidades de las mismas afiliaciones en el estado limítrofe de Texas.
"Pobre México, tan lejos de dios, tan cerca de EEUU" [Porfirio Díaz]
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Do you remember when that obvious nazi and mediocre intellect was going on about his "X: the Everything App" as he acquired Twitter and started sacking off all the workers?
Guess that's something else of his that came to nothing but the Press gave him the benefit of a doubt over....
He's a huckster, a fraud, he's no more going to Mars than Daffy Duck was.
#ElonMusk #Musk #Twitter #Grifters #Cheats #Frauds
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Was it the takeover of XAI which pushed Linda Yaccarino out? It wouldn't have been the racism, people like that only care about money and status....
Sitting on Mastodon, safe from all of this, watching Corperate Social Media destroy itself and take a billion idiots (c'mon, they've had their chance by now) with it.
"I only go on there to read what Famous people are saying, don't be mean to me!"
Clowns
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #AI #TechBros
#Ontario court halts Premier Ford’s plan to tear out #Toronto bike lanes
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Ontario court halts Ford’s plan to tear out Toronto bike lanes
Protected bike lanes in Toronto must remain in place for now, an Ontario judge said on Tuesday. The Ford government had appealed a previous ruling that ordered the bike lanes to remain, but failed.Canada's National Observer
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Can't ever have nice things
A ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make canceling subscriptions easier, is blocked
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in ios, with ‘check spelling’ enabled in Keyboard Settings, it is not possible to copy or cut a deliberately misspelled word
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Yes, yes we can.
How rude to dismiss us all with an arrogant statement....he will come to regret this.
#Starmer #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #Austerity #Labour #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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yet he seems perfectly happy taxing the regular people at record levels.
Tax the working people so you can let the wealthy continue to drive up inflation and government debt as they accumulate every more wealth.
Even though this is stuffed behind a paywall the dialogue if you wanna call it between Musk and his supporters to get the AI system to regurgitate politically incorrect information only goes one way.
The far right needs to be disabused of the idea that political correctness is a left-wing phenomenon.
This is a dramatic example of the right wing being hurt by facts and data.
It is also an example of them editing reality for their own comfort
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X
Incident follows xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questionsHannah Murphy (Financial Times)
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I guess we just can't have good — or even nominally rational — things here. No easy unsubscription for us!
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The weird thing in my mind is that the cancellation gauntlet can only be hurting the industry as a whole. Once somebody has spent hours trying to turn a subscription off, they will be quite hesitant to sign up for the next one.
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Honest question: Has anyone done stats for the NZ economy WITHOUT the artificial growth in the price of houses?
Is there even a NZ economy without it?
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Fuck knows what's going on in MacArthur Park but it looks BAD
Update: The community mobilised and for now at least some of the big brave heavily armed masked twats in APCs are running away ✊
#LA #USPolitics #ICE
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This looks like the normalization of military sweeps.
In other words, Gaza is a blueprint, or alternately the West Bank is a blueprint for what’s happening now to LA.
And what they’re doing is normalizing occupation style rule
Collateral Freedom: RSF unblocks Circle 19 website censored by the Chinese regime
To counter the Chinese regime’s censorship of the website of Circle 19 – a group defending the right to information in China – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has made the platform accessible once again as part of its Collateral Freedom operation.rsf.org
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📣 Republicans just passed the #MAGAMurderBill into law.
I'm updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the populations most at risk of losing coverage highlighted.
Next up: #NEBRASKA:
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House District Enrollment: Nebraska (now w/high-res PDFs!)
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA expansion) and Medicare (both Fee-for-Services & …ACA Signups
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The words of Hannah Arendt, from "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report On The Banality of Evil" come to mind today:
“And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations—as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world—we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.”
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Folks need to understand how dehumanizing and discriminatory it is to say the “genuinely disabled” don’t have to worry about Medicaid cuts.
First, everyone needs to worry about millions of people losing their healthcare.
Second, invisible disabilities are real. Mental health disabilities are real.
Saying some are “genuine” infers others are not.
It infers some are faking.
We don’t fake being disabled. We fake being well.
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@Jennifer @sidereal
There are a lot of ways to cut 'wasteful spending' without seemingly impacting a program, and the first and foremost has always been to find the people who don't seem like they'll be impacted heavily by the cuts. The invisibly-disabled, the folks with mental wellness issues, the people who can walk to the grocery store but can't get a job due to any number of factors. So that's the start: find the easiest people to slash away and call them 'lazy'.
But you're right in that paperwork, and the navigation thereof, is another excellent way to do so. You can see that with 'healthcare' companies, too! Reams of paperwork to fill out to make it harder to get your request to the group who'll deny it anyway on various grounds if you're at all disabled or otherwise 'high-risk'.
and the legitimacy of his pardons. Laws are not a suicide pact, they’re multiparty deals. You don’t have to let someone cheat unilaterally.
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It certainly does not take very long before fascism starts in on removing citizen rights from natural born citizens.
Nobody is safe under this bullshit. The billionaires that paid for this the billionaires making tons of money off of kidnapping men, women and children are ripping mothers away from babies or vice versa and packing people off to concentration camps, cannot go unpunished in all this neither can the politicians.
The world cannot return to 2024. They crossed too many lines.
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At the federal level, the government doesn’t his taxes or bonds to finance itself.. remember that the federal government is the institution that issues US currency..
But every other level of government do finance themselves with taxes.
But to your main point farmers are already finding out what happens when the workforce disappears and when the sector’s largest customer evaporates. USAID bought a lot of agricultural product..
More generally yes if nobody has any money, something (edit fixed voice to text… mess up) is going to happen to the economy.
If you have any sense of the megalomania of super rich, they think they animated the world and we are just parasites. Billionaires in particular are so disconnected from actual business, that how business works don’t enter their minds. that’s for staff to deal with..
pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
when i was little
i thought when you died
you were left conscious
but alone
in an unending dark void
and i only now realized
that it so terrified me
because that’s what
every minute of my life
pre-transition
already was
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One symptom of a deep bubble is what I call the "pod people effect". Basically, people who seem to go to sleep one day sceptical about the bubble and wake up believers—they've changed their minds purely on social proof and personal impressions without a shred of genuine evidence.
The 2007 Icelandic finance bubble, for example, was all-encompassing here. Everything was of a mind with the bubble. Research said it was great. Media hyped it throughout. Everybody around you was a true believer
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America is falling into fascism, and American tech companies are working hard to cause this.
If you are not a US citizen and don't want your country to become fascist, then stop doing business with American tech companies as much as possible. None of them can be trusted.
8⅔-minute video
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Europe is Dumping Microsoft
In this video I discuss how several countries in europe are switching various public services (EMS, county records, etc) to use free and open source software...YouTube
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Don't judge the tech bros on how cringeworthy or clumsy they are. Judge them on their intent
Our reactions to things like this are "hey everyone, this is really dumb. Lol"
It feels good to speak on the ugliness and stupidity and get affirmation others also see how fucked up it is
But there is no protection in that, it's a momentary salve, it doesn't make it go away
Begin to think about how we fight what is coming
Stop laughing. Start fighting
#Palantir #Fascism #SurveillanceCapitalism
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@phoenixgee @CptSuperlative
Like the Monty Python scene:
Brian: "You are all individuals!"
Crowd: "We are all individuals!"
And "manufactured by the machine", just like in The Matrix, it was a good analogy.
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open source is for the people, and there are practices of enforcing licenses which defend the openness and ensure that it is used fairly, and that contributors are credited, it builds careers, it teaches people.
LLMs and other generative AI isn't open source, it isn't a defense of knowledge or labor, and it's built on ripping off the works of humans without ever paying the toll or agreeing to any licenses -- it actively harms careers, and makes largely makes us stupid
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in reply to Strypey • • •Instead, give trolls you're banning what they think is a human mod, but is actually a Markov scarecrow stuffed on anti-bigotry discourse, and let them argue with that to their heart's content.
If you and your fellow mods need a laugh, get in a voice conference and read out some of the more hilarious troll-scarecrow interactions to each other : P
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •... and then it goes exactly where I expected, but with a frankly surprising level of candour;
"There is no grey area and rarely any edge cases to consider. Your [community] adopts a mantra that the people you’d like to gather around your community love to hear: You share our beliefs on what is fundamentally moral, ethical, and right, or you leave. If they choose to stay, you ban them. It’s as simple as that."
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One word; Gloriavale. This is *exactly* how they operate.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Again with the "Nazi bar" trope.
This is a sensible strategy for a very specific situation. It's a business, with an owner and staff. It's an-person situation. It's a socialising space, intended for people letting off steam. It serves highly poisonous beverages which temporarily (and then permanently) make people brain-damaged.
People often extrapolate from this to a web forum or chat room, or even more so a whole decentralised network. They clearly have no idea how silly this looks.
#NaziBar
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in reply to Strypey • • •"... some staff members sided with people upset about the fact that the server had become Political, and plenty of others were completely unable to recognize the hate symbols like triple parenthesis being thrown around)."
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You're always supposed to ban people who use those, right? Along with anyone who drops the N-bomb? What if they're Jewish or Black (or both), reclaiming their power by ironically claiming a hate symbol? Ban 'em anyway? How do you know who is who?
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in reply to Strypey • • •Now I'm not sure if I should be glad that I'm so far out of the social media loop to have not known about the triple parenthesis thing, or sad that I seem to have been living under the rock of obliviousness?